A Sri Lankan national has been arrested on a charge of attempting to assassinate Maldives President Abdulla Yameen, the police revealed today.
Police have barred lawyer of impeached vice president Ahmed Adeeb from prison visits, after the Supreme Court suspended his license to appear in courts. The apex...
Maldives First Lady Fathimath Ibrahim was released from hospital on Friday, more than a month after being admitted for injuries to her spine caused by an...
At least 50 police officers today cordoned off the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party’s campaign offices and dispersed hundreds of supporters gathered for a tea party,...
Opposition aligned Raajje TV station has suspended coverage of political affairs following the brief detention of a fourth journalist today amidst an unprecedented nationwide state of...
Impeached Vice President Ahmed Adeeb is now facing prosecution on charges of bribing police officers into divulging state secrets and smuggling weapons, the police have said.
Hundreds were evacuated this morning from Malé’s southwest harbor in the third bomb scare of the day. Security forces said a third suspicious object had been...
The Maldives parliament impeached today Vice President Ahmed Adeeb in an abrupt vote scheduled a day after an unprecedented state of emergency was declared in the...
International human rights groups and the governments of the UK and the US have urged the Maldives to revoke a nationwide state of emergency and restore...
The government of Maldives raised fear of a bomb plots in declaring an unprecedented nationwide state of emergency today, but insists that the honeymoon destination is...
The Supreme Court has suspended detained Vice President Ahmed Adeeb’s lawyer, Hussain Shameem, on a charge of contempt of court.
President Abdulla Yameen has a powerful motivation to keep opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed in jail - he threatened the financial interests of the powerful cartel of...
A bipartisan coalition of 13 top US lawmakers, in a resolution submitted to the Congress, have called on the Maldives to free former President Mohamed Nasheed,...
Amidst an escalating struggle for influence at the country’s top leadership, the residents of Malé reacted to the news of Monday's bomb with skepticism, signaling an...
Bomb squad officers defused tonight a homemade bomb found on vehicle parked near the presidential palace in Malé. President Abdulla Yameen, who prefers to live at his...
Vice President Ahmed Adeeb remains in custody after losing an appeal of his detention over suspicion of links to an alleged assassination attempt on President Abdulla...
Although the FBI had found no evidence of an explosive on President Abdulla Yameen's speedboat, the government insisted that analysis by Sri Lankans and Saudis, and...
