Riot police arrest protesters on Boduthakurufaanu Magu in Henveiru Male during a protest near the residence of Minister of Defence Mariya Didi. This comes after Mariya made derogatory remarks against PPM’s Hulhumale constituency president Abdul Samad who was recently deported from India. Speaking at a ceremony to formally hand over…

A 52-year-old Polish man holidaying in the Maldives was hit by a motorised dinghy while diving. The man could not be saved. According to local media reports, the 52-year-old suffered serious injuries to his arms and torso and lost an arm. The Polish man was taken to hospital, but doctors…

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih is leading preliminary presidential primary results. Speaker Mohamed Nasheed refuses to accept defeat and is rechecking the result sheets. The ruling party of the Maldives held a primary election between the current President, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, and his former ally and the country’s first democratically…