The Latest Breaking News from Maldives

Ranil Wickremesinghe says new PM should be ‘acceptable to both the government and opposition’.

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, a government official said, just days after protesters stormed the president's official residence as the island country grapples with its worst economic crisis since independence.

The Conclave started as a trilateral maritime cooperation mechanism among India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka in 2011.

‘In the Maldives we cannot stop the waves, but we can rise with them,’ says former president Mohamed Nasheed

The pair the jetted off for their honeymoon in the Maldives

Police in the Maldives used tear gas and pepper spray to control a crowd of people who disrupted a yoga event organised by the Indian High Commission, or embassy, in the capital Male on Tuesday morning, an organiser said.

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Girls beat second seed Maldives 

Egypt's Suez Canal has extended rebates on canal tolls for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers from July until the end of the year, the canal authority said in circulars published on its website. LPG tankers operating between the American Gulf and ports west of India,…