NEW DELHI — The Maldives has asked India to withdraw its troops by March 15, news outlets in the island nation reported Sunday, as a weeks-long spat that mushroomed across social media escalated ...

NEW DELHI — The opposition candidate declared victory on Sunday in the presidential election in the Maldives, an unexpected blow to the country’s authoritarian leader who had made a bid to ...

The vote in the Maldives highlighted a bitter divide between pro-India and pro-China camps in Asia’s smallest country. India and China hold sway in the island nation in the Indian Ocean, which ...

MALE, Maldives -- The resort nation of the Maldives, critical of other countries for being lax on global warming, is working hard to ensure that its own practices are environmentally friendly. Not ...

If you’ve heard of Maldives, a South Asian country southwest of Sri Lanka in the Arabian Sea, you may know it as an island paradise. But severe political crisis erupted there Feb. 5 when ...

MALE, Maldives — In late 2023, Mohamed Muizzu became a problem for India. In fiery speeches, the newly elected president of the Maldives pledged to expel Indian troops stationed in his island ...

On Sept. 29, the two faces of the Maldives collided when a homemade bomb exploded in a park in the capital, Male, wounding 12 tourists, threatening the resort industry and sending the clear ...

Maldives ratified a change this week to its immigration laws, made in response to Israel’s conduct in Gaza, to prohibit travelers from entering the country under Israeli passports. “The ...

The Maldives, another small country with a high vaccination rate and a tourism-dependent economy, has plans for a similar campaign. ... Beccari told The Washington Post, ...

Former Maldives president injured in bomb attack in capital May 7, 2021 Maldivian police secure the area after a blast in Male on Thursday that injured the country’s first democratically elected ...

Maldives police say blast that hurt Nasheed act of terrorism. Maldivian police officers secure the area following a blast in Male, Maldives, Thursday, May 6, 2021.

Parts from a Chinese Long March rocket fell into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, China’s Manned Space Engineering Office reported late Saturday night, ending days of international ...