Tag: Maldives

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VIDEO: In the Maldives, president claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint

Riots raged in the Maldives recently, as people upset over the arrest of a popular judge tried to make their voice heard. Depending on who you ask, it worked. The nation's president resigned -- but he now says he did so at gunpoint in what amounts to a coup....
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Maldives working to be carbon-neutral by 2020

About two years ago, the Maldives announced the nation would be carbon-neutral by 2020. That's a tall order for a country that spends 15 percent of GDP on diesel fuel, but work is progressing toward that goal....
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In the island nation of the Maldives, China and India trying to assert themselves

China and India are trying to establish a measure of control over the Indian Ocean and a small island nation, the Maldives, is at the center of the tensions between the two....
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