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AN IDYLLIC PHILIPPINE RESORT ISLAND IS CLOSED TO TOURISTS
Said Ms. Graf, who operates the Boracay Beach Resort on the western side of the island... READ MORE›
MALDIVES PRESIDENT LIFTS 45-DAY STATE OF EMERGENCY
In a Twitter post, he said Yameen has overrun the judiciary and legislature, arrested hundreds unlawfully and introduced a new normal in the Maldives... READ MORE›
INDIA'S SEYCHELLES MILITARY BASE PLAN HITS CHOPPY WATERS
India has traditionally had a very robust, empathetic relationship with the Indian Ocean island states... READ MORE›
THIS TROPICAL PARADISE IS THE SCENE OF A NEW COLD WAR
The Maldives, known as an exotic and luxurious tropical vacation spot, is fast becoming one of the world's most important geopolitical footballs... READ MORE›
MALDIVES OPPOSITION MEMBERS ARRESTED AFTER TOP COURT VALIDATES EMERGENCY RULE
Maldives police arrested at least four opposition members under state of emergency laws for protesting against President Abdulla Yameen's government, the opposition said on Tuesday... READ MORE›
MALDIVES EXPLAINED: WHY IS THIS HONEYMOON DESTINATION IN DISARRAY?
How did the Maldives, an archipelago made up of more than 1,000 coral islands in the Indian Ocean, unravel?... READ MORE›
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD PLAY CONSTRUCTIVE ROLE IN MALDIVES CRISIS
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang Photo source fmprc.gov.cn BEIJING, Feb... READ MORE›
MALDIVES EXTENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY BY 30 DAYS
President Yameen has, in effect, hijacked the entire state and is ruling the Maldives like a military dictator... READ MORE›
WE DO NOT WANT ANY TROUBLE BETWEEN INDIA & CHINA, SAYS FORMER MALDIVES PRESIDENT NASHEED
It shouldn't work like that, and hope that people in the Indian Ocean understand that this is not the way forward, he added... READ MORE›
CHINA DENOUNCES MALDIVES' FORMER PRESIDENT'S "LAND GRAB" CLAIMS
The friendly cooperation between China and the Maldives is for the benefit of all Maldivians... READ MORE›
MALDIVES CRISIS: US ASKS PRESIDENT ABDULLA YAMEEN TO RESTORE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE, INSTITUTIONS
The Yameen government refused to implement the ruling, prompting a wave of protests in Maldives capital, Male... READ MORE›
U.N. ALLEGES 'ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY' AS POLICE SAY DETAINED MALDIVES JUSTICES TOOK BRIBES TO FREE POLITICIANS
Police have proof of these transactions serving as evidence against Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and Justice Ali Hameed, said Abdulla Nawaz, the acting police chief... READ MORE›
MALDIVES PRESIDENT BACK IN CONTROL AS COURT REVERSES RULING
Was the only senior opposition figure still at liberty in the Maldives before his arrest on Monday... READ MORE›
MALDIVES TOP COURT ANNULS ORDER TO FREE JAILED POLITICIANS AS PRESIDENT HITS 'COUP' AND FOES URGE INDIA INTERVENTION
He lost the 2013 election to Yameen, then was convicted under Maldives' anti-terrorism laws in a trial widely criticized by international rights groups... READ MORE›
MALDIVES OPPOSITION CALLS FOR INDIAN INTERVENTION AS PRESIDENT IMPOSES
Yameen's office released a statement saying his government welcomed the Supreme Court's revision ... READ MORE›
MALDIVES TOP COURT REVERSES DISSIDENTS' RELEASE
Political crisis takes new turn as top court reverses ruling ordering release of President Abdulla Yameen's opponents... READ MORE›
MALDIVES CRISIS: PREZ SAYS EMERGENCY TO PROBE 'COUP' BEHIND SC RULING; EXILED LEADER NASHEED SEEKS INDIA'S INTERVENTION
Maldives political crisis Police officers detain an opposition protestor demanding the release of political prisoners during a protest in Male, Maldives, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018... READ MORE›
NASHEED URGES INDIA TO INTERVENE TO END MALDIVES CRISIS
The former president also asked the United States to impose targeted economic sanctions on Yameen and his associates... READ MORE›
MALDIVES DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY AS CRISIS DEEPENS
Opposition members of parliament have urged foreign intervention after the government ignored the Supreme Court ruling... READ MORE›
MALDIVES TOP COURT SEEKS TO IMPEACH PRESIDENT
The information says the Supreme Court might issue a ruling to impeach or remove the president from power, he added... READ MORE›
MALDIVES TOP COURT 'IN BID TO REMOVE' PRESIDENT YAMEEN
Army chief, Ahmed Shiyam, said security forces cannot watch and wait as the Maldives goes into crisis ... READ MORE›
MALDIVES CRISIS: PRESIDENT GAYOOM SAYS HE'S WILLING TO HOLD EARLY ELECTION
Published February 4, 2018 8 28 am UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked the Maldivian government to respect the Supreme Court's order, joining a similar appeal by the United States... READ MORE›
MALDIVES REGIME THREATENED AS EXILED LEADER SAYS HE WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT
On FridayA he said the decision cleared the way for him to return to the Maldives, a south Asian atoll nation known as a honeymooners' paradise... READ MORE›
CLEARED NASHEED VOWS TO CHALLENGE MALDIVES PRESIDENT IN POLLS
It threatens to isolate President Abdulla Yameen, who has faced previous unsuccessful opposition attempts to impeach him for alleged corruption... READ MORE›
CLEARED NASHEED VOWS TO CHALLENGE MALDIVES PRESIDENT IN POLLS
It threatens to isolate President Abdulla Yameen, who has faced previous unsuccessful opposition attempts to impeach him for alleged corruption... READ MORE›
MALDIVES COURT THROWS OUT CASE AGAINST MOHAMED NASHEED
Welcoming the ruling, Mariyam Shiuna, executive director of anti-corruption group Transparency Maldives, said it still entails a lot of political uncertainty ... READ MORE›
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MALDIVES PARLIAMENT SHUT DOWN TO STOP SPEAKER'S REMOVAL
Soldiers enter parliament after opposition politicians defy lockdown and scale walls demanding a vote to remove speaker... READ MORE›
ABDULLA YAMEEN 'ADMITS RECEIVING BAGS OF STOLEN CASH'
Eva Abdulla, an opposition politician, said Stealing Paradise uncovered ample evidence of Yameen's involvement in what has become the Maldives' biggest ever corruption scandal... READ MORE›
WANT TO BUY A SLICE OF THE MALDIVES? NOW YOU CAN
They have been creating islands in South China Sea, and they will try to replicate the same exercise in Indian Ocean, he said... READ MORE›
'WE NEED DEVELOPMENT': MALDIVES SWITCHES FOCUS FROM CLIMATE THREAT TO MASS TOURISM
The Maldives Democratic Party MDP, led by former president Rasheed who is now in exile in London, said Yameen was acting without consultation... READ MORE›
WHAT IS THE WORLD'S MOST VULNERABLE CITY?
Drinking water is also affected because Detroit is particularly vulnerable to water-borne pathogens, and the larvae gruesomely referred to as Chicago Climate Change Maggots ... READ MORE›
FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADER OF MALDIVES JAILED FOR 13 YEARS ON TERRORISM CHARGES
Prosecutors and Maldives government ministers stood by the verdict, denying political influence and saying that Mr Nasheed was free to appeal... READ MORE›
MALDIVES QUITS COMMONWEALTH OVER ALLEGED RIGHTS ABUSES
The Commonwealth charter reflects the commitment of our member states to democracy and human rights, development and growth, and diversity... READ MORE›
US SENDS SUPER CARRIER USS NIMITZ TO SRI LANKA IN FLAG-SHOWING VISIT AIMED AT CHINA
The investment is also viewed as a counter to India's traditional influence in Sri Lanka and the rest of the Indian Ocean... READ MORE›
IS IT TOO LATE TO SAVE THE MALDIVES FROM CLIMATE CHANGE AND ISLAMIC EXTREMISM?
Angela Merkel with the former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, in 2010 AFP Getty Images In the meantime, the environment is becoming a secondary victim... READ MORE›
SWITZERLAND'S LAVERTEZZO OVERRUN WITH TOURISTS AFTER VIDEO GOES VIRAL
Village dubbed the Maldives of Milan is being turned into an open air toilet, residents say... READ MORE›
MALDIVES NEWSPAPER RAIDED AFTER CORRUPTION CLAIMS AGAINST PRESIDENT
Al-Jazeera documentary airing corruption allegations against President Abdulla Yameen leads to crackdown on media... READ MORE›
CORAL BLEACHING SPREADS TO MALDIVES, DEVASTATING SPECTACULAR REEFS
When Noaa declared the event was a global bleaching event in October 2015, Mark Eakin, Noaa's Coral Reef Watch coordinator, said it could last well into 2016... READ MORE›
STATE OF EMERGENCY IN MALDIVES IS CALLED PRECAUTIONARY
But Ms. Maumoon insisted that the government was very sure that the explosion was an attempt on Mr. Yameen's life... READ MORE›
5 ISLAND RESORTS WITH FOOD AS SPECTACULAR AS THE SCUBA
Spiny lobster is also on the menu at the hotel's Coral Grill, where you can make it part of a surf and turf entree... READ MORE›
REMOTE ISLANDERS SAW 'LOW-FLYING JUMBO JET' ON THE DAY MH370 DISAPPEARED
Now residents of the Maldives island say they saw a plane with red and blue markings on the fatal day... READ MORE›
MALDIVES SEES SURGE IN YOUNG MUSLIMS LEAVING FOR SYRIA
Paradise jihadis maldives sees surge in young muslims leaving for syria... READ MORE›
CHERIE BLAIR 'SNUBBED BY FOREIGN OFFICE' IN MALDIVES LEGAL BATTLE AGAINST AMAL CLOONEY
A Foreign Office spokesman said Minister Swire has met Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon a number of times to discuss the situation in the Maldives... READ MORE›
FORMER MALDIVES PRESIDENT DETAINED UNDER ANTI-TERROR LAW
But it also criticised Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party for an "attempt to destabilise the elected government"... READ MORE›
EXPERTS URGE CAUTION OVER ''MH370 WRECKAGE' FOUND IN MALDIVES
But in June this year, Maldives authorities said they doubted the plane seen from their islands was MH370... READ MORE›
SRI LANKAN 'WITCH DOCTOR' CLAIMS HE USED BLACK MAGIC TO ELECT PRESIDENT OF THE MALDIVES
But Mr Yameen's half-brother, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the country's long-time former dictator, strongly denied that Mr Wickramasinghe had any role in the 2013 election... READ MORE›
MALDIVES VICE-PRESIDENT CHARGED OVER ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL PRESIDENT
Ahmed Adeeb is charged with high treason in connection with last months blast on boat carrying President Abdulla Yameen... READ MORE›
AMAL CLOONEY VISITS NO 10, BUT FOR ONCE IT'S SOMEONE ELSE TURNING HEADS
Mrs Abdulla, who has two daughters, was First Lady of the Maldives from 2008 until 2012... READ MORE›
PRESIDENT OF MALDIVES DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY
Attorney General Mohamed Anil said President Abdulla Yameen made the decision to safeguard public safety... READ MORE›
SAUDI KING CANCELS MALDIVES VISIT AMID INVESTMENT PLAN BACKLASH
A proposed deal for Saudi Arabia to lease the Faafu Atoll in the Maldives for 99 years as a special economic zone provoked outrage on the islands... READ MORE›
MALDIVES POLICE ARREST REPORTERS AT PRESS FREEDOM RALLY
Journalists held after police fire pepper spray at group demanding more media freedom outside presidential office... READ MORE›
IN THE MALDIVES, THE FIRST DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT IS IMPRISONED WHILE ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS GO FREE
Sometimes called the Mandela of the Maldives, Nasheed is a political and religious moderate, Western-educated and a longtime champion of democracy, climate justice and human rights... READ MORE›
MALDIVES SEWAGE PLANT FIRE CAUSES WATER SHORTAGE
The Maldives has appealed for aid from India, Sri Lanka, the US and China... READ MORE›
THESE COUNTRIES ARE THE 'MORAL CENTER' OF THE CLIMATE DEBATE. WILL THEY BE LEFT BEHIND?
The president on Tuesday was slated to meet with heads of small island nations, the countries that are the most threatened by climate change... READ MORE›
MALDIVES COURT JAILS OPPOSITION FIGURE SHEIKH IMRAN ABDULLA FOR 12 YEARS
Leader of Adhaalath party convicted on charge of inciting unrest for staging rally against jailing of dissidents under President Abdulla Yameen... READ MORE›
MALDIVES WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STONING WINS REPRIEVE
Sex outside marriage is against the law in the Maldives although the ban does not apply to tourists visiting the upmarket holiday destination... READ MORE›