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The Latest Breaking News from Maldives

Army Chief General Manoj Pande holds talks with top Maldivian commander

Maldives is one of India's key maritime neighbours in the Indian Ocean Region

The Hindu

The Greek hotel with overwater bungalows cheaper than the Maldives

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Wales Online

UK has hottest night on record as temperatures forecast to hit 40C

Met Office prediction would make country hotter than Jamaica, the Maldives and Barbados

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Sun-soaked Greater Manchester set to be hotter than the MALDIVES

Experts have warned that the worryingly hot weather could lead to 'widespread impacts on people and infrastructure'

Manchester Evening News

Sri Lankan Speaker Says President's Resignation Accepted

The resignation of Sri Lanka's president has been accepted, the crisis-hit country's parliamentary speaker announced Friday, after he fled the country earlier this week and notified him from Singapore that he was stepping down. The formal declaration makes Gotabaya Rajapaksa -- once known as 'The Terminator' for his ruthless crushing…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Jordan Pickford's bride Megan Davison stuns in lace gown as they marry in the Maldives

England football star Jordan Pickford's wife Megan Davison looked every inch the dream bride in a white off-the-shoulder gown from Berta fashion house in new images from their wedding

Daily Mirror

Jordan Pickford's wife shares adorable wedding images after Everton goalkeeper ties knot

Jordan Pickford's wedding day in the Maldives has been captured in a series of breath-taking photographs

Liverpool Echo

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Jordan Pickford pays tribute to Megan Davison in heartfelt post after dream wedding

Jordan Pickford had a message for new wife Megan after the couple got married in a stunning Maldives wedding

Chronicle Live

England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford marries Megan Davison in Maldives wedding

The couple were originally meant to get married in 2020

The Independent UK

Lanka 'Kand': President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flies to Singapore from Maldives

Rajapaksa had left Sri Lanka on Wednesday morning with his wife and two bodyguards, following raging protests in the island nation. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Plane said to carry Sri Lanka’s president most-tracked in world

A Saudi Arabian Airlines flight from Maldives to Singapore believed to be carrying Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the world’s most-tracked flight on Thursday, underscoring massive global interest in the troubled island nation’s political affairs.

Bangkok Post

Sri Lanka president heads to Singapore after fleeing Colombo - source

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was on his way to Singapore on Thursday and was expected to stay there for the time being, a Sri Lankan government source told Reuters, after the president fled to the Maldives from his home country.

Reuters

Sri Lanka's president's resignation accepted, parliament to convene Saturday

The resignation of Sri Lanka's president has been accepted, the crisis-hit country's parliamentary speaker announced Friday, after Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country earlier this week and notified him from Singapore that he was stepping down. Follow FRANCE 24's live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time…

France 24

Sri Lanka protesters ending occupation of govt buildings

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's anti-government demonstrators said Thursday they were ending their occupation of official buildings, but would press on with their bid to bring down the president and prime minister in the face of a dire economic crisis.

Bangkok Post

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Sri Lanka Protesters in Talks to End Occupation

Sri Lanka's anti-government demonstrators were in talks Thursday to hand back official buildings they seized, protest representatives said, even as they insisted the president and prime minister both quit in the face of an economic crisis. Protesters overran President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's palace at the weekend, forcing him to flee to…

Reuters

Sri Lankan president hands in resignation after fleeing to Singapore

Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted a letter of resignation on Thursday, a spokesperson for the parliament speaker said, hours after fleeing to Singapore following mass protests over an economic meltdown.

Chronicle Live

Jordan Pickford marries 'soulmate' Megan Davison in dream wedding on stunning Maldives beach

Former Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford tied the knot with his long-term partner Megan Davison in the Maldives

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Sri Lanka awaits president’s resignation

The promised official resignation letter from Sri Lanka’s president, who has fled to the Maldives, has yet to materialise as protests continue in Colombo.

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Al Jazeera

Maldives gov’t faces backlash for accepting Sri Lankan president

Maldivians voice outrage as disgraced Sri Lankan leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees to the Maldives.

The Conversation

Sri Lanka riots: how the tiny Indian Ocean island nation got into such a mess

The chaos in Sri Lanka has deepened after the country’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled to the Maldives. The president and his family left Colombo on a military jet just hours before he was due to resign in the face of massive popular protests which culminated on July 9 with crowds…

Reuters

Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa set to fly to Singapore via Maldives - government source

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was expected to head to Singapore after fleeing to the Maldives in the early hours of Wednesday, a government source in Sri Lanka told Reuters, as protests continued in Colombo.

France 24

Sri Lanka imposes curfew, protesters storm PM’s office after president flees

Protesters in Sri Lanka defied tear gas, water cannon and a state of emergency to storm the prime minister’s office on Wednesday after the country’s embattled president fled overseas, with the crowd demanding both men step down in the face of an economic crisis. Read about the day's events as…

AFP

Fleeing Sri Lanka president faces protests in Maldives

Malé (Maldives) (AFP) - Escaping Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa faced protests in the Maldives Wednesday with dozens of compatriots urging Male not to provide him safe heaven.

Bangkok Post

Explainer: Sri Lanka's turmoil

Sri Lanka has declared a state of emergency after the crisis-hit nation's president fled to the Maldives, with protesters also demanding the prime minister quit.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka in crisis: What, why and how?

Unprecedented economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as he flees to the Maldives.

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