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Maldives leader cuts short tour to tackle water crisis
    MALE — Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen cut short his trip to Malaysia to deal with a drinking water crisis in the honeymoon islands’ capital that triggered unrest on the streets, his office said on Sunday. Residents of the main island of ...
Opposition concedes defeat in Maldives vote
MALE — The main opposition party in the Maldives on Monday accused authorities of undermining the latest parliamentary elections, but conceded defeat after a bitterly-fought campaign. The Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) had criticized the Supreme Court’s sacking of the elections chief ...
Maldives president’s party set for coalition rule
MALE — Maldives President Abdulla Yameen’s party is poised to win control of Parliament with the support of a key ally, early projections in the Indian Ocean nation showed on Sunday. President Yameen’s Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) was leading in ...
Kingdom, Maldives to combat terrorism
Saudi Gazette report MALE – Saudi Arabia and Maldives have reiterated their determination to fight extremism and terrorism in all their forms and manifestations. In a joint communique issued on the occasion of the official visit of Crown Prince Salman on ...
Maldives’ Yameen appoints niece as FM
    MALE — The new leader of the Maldives has appointed the daughter of former strongman Maumoon Abdul Gayoom as foreign minister, an official said Tuesday, underscoring the family’s renewed influence in the country. President Abdulla Yameen, half-brother of Gayoom who ruled ...
Old guard’s Yameen beats favorite in tense Maldives vote
MALE — Abdulla Yameen won the Maldives presidential election run-off on Saturday, narrowly defeating the favorite Mohamed Nasheed in a ballot that voters hope will end nearly two years of political turmoil that has hit the vital tourism industry. The crisis occasionally ...
Maldives crisis deepens despite poll announcement
    MALE — The Maldives Tuesday faced the prospect of a constitutional crisis after one of the main political parties warned it may not support plans to restage aborted elections next month. Following an international backlash over the last-minute cancellation of an ...
Mass arrests after Nasheed detained
  MALE — Police in the Maldives said Wednesday they have arrested scores of opposition supporters protesting at the detention of former president Mohamed Nasheed before his court appearance on abuse of power charges. After the regional powerhouse India appealed for calm ...
Maldives police detain opposition leader
  MALE — Police in the Maldives detained opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed on Tuesday, defying pressure from regional power India which had called for him to be free to campaign for elections. A spokeswoman for Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party, Shauna Aminath, said ...
Male govt to appeal flogging of rape victim
MALE — The Maldivian government said Thursday it would seek to overturn a court decision to publicly flog a 15-year-old rape victim convicted of having premarital sex. The unidentified girl was charged after police investigating a complaint that she was raped ...
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