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Low-lying Maldives seeks easier funding to battle waves

MALÉ, Maldives, May 25, 2024 (AFP) - The Maldives on Saturday demanded international funding to battle rising sea levels, saying…

Maldives signs China defense deal as India prepares exit

MALÉ, Maldives, March 5, 2024 (AFP) - The Maldives has signed a "military assistance" deal with China after ordering Indian…

Maldives tells India to withdraw troops by March as row deepens

MALÉ, Maldives, Jan 14, 2024 (AFP) - The Maldivian president told India Sunday to withdraw its nearly 100 troops by…

Muizzu: Pro-China winner of Maldives election

  MALÉ, Maldives, Sept 30, 2023 (AFP) - The next president of the Maldives is an ardent advocate of Chinese…

Former Maldives president wounded in ‘assassination attempt’

MALE, Maldives (AFP) -- Former Maldives president and current parliamentary speaker Mohamed Nasheed was recovering in hospital Friday after an…

Maldives to reopen tourist resorts from mid-July after virus closures

MALE, Maldives (AFP) -- The Maldives will reopen its tourist resorts from mid-July after a months-long virus-enforced shutdown, the country's…

Former Maldives leader jailed for money laundering

MALE, Maldives (AFP) -- Disgraced Maldives ex-president Abdulla Yameen was sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering on…

Maldives issue warning amid spike in tourist drownings

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) -- Five tourists including a honeymooning couple have drowned in a single week in the Maldives,…

DFA: Remains of newlyweds flown to Sri Lanka from Maldives

(Eagle News)--The remains of the newlyweds who drowned while on their honeymoon in the Maldives have been flown to Sri…

DFA to shoulder repatriation costs of the remains of the Filipino newlyweds who drowned in the Maldives

(Eagle News)---The Department of Foreign Affairs will shoulder the repatriation costs of the remains of the Filipino newlyweds who drowned…

New Maldives leader secures $1.4bn from ‘closest friend’ India

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) -- The new Maldives president, seen as closer to the West and India than his predecessor,…

Relief as Maldives strongman concedes defeat

  by Amal Jayasinghe Agence France Presse COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) -- The strongman leader of the Maldives on Monday…

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