An explosion in the capital, Malé, on Thursday night left the former President Mohamed Nasheed in critical condition. Police said the attack was an assassination attempt. By The Associated Press The ...

Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives until he was compelled to step down today, spent six years as a political prisoner in the 1990s. He was kept for spells in solitary confinement, tortured and ...

Mohamed Nasheed was in New York City this week promoting The Island President, a new documentary film about his beautiful archipelago nation, the Maldives, and its perilous struggle against climate ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In the next 50 years, 80% of the Maldives may become uninhabitable, creating human security and livelihood issues of epic proportions for its ...

The trial of former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, who faces charges of abuse of power, is due to begin in the capital, Male. Mr Nasheed, who resigned in February in what he said was a coup, is ...

Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed resigned today after a "mutiny" by police officers who took over the state broadcaster in the nation's capital. About 500 opposition supporters rallied outside the ...

MALE (Reuters) - Former Maldivian leader Mohamed Nasheed will face a run-off election on September 28 after his win in the presidential poll ended without a majority, provisional results showed on ...

COLOMBO — The Maldives’ foreign minister on Tuesday accused a former president of politicizing a 30-day medical leave from prison by engaging in lobbying and a media campaign in the United Kingdom.

MALE (Reuters) - Maldives police arrested at least 12 people in the early hours of Friday to break up a protest by supporters of former president Mohamed Nasheed against a report that said he had been ...

COLOMBO — A court in the Maldives Sunday ordered the arrest of the country’s first democratically-elected president Mohamed Nasheed, who has challenged the legality of a criminal trial against him.