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Posts Tagged ‘Mohamed Nasheed’
Maldives police break up opposition protest
Maldives police break up opposition protest

  Al Jazeera English | May 1, 2011 Police in Maldives have used tear gas and batons to break up an anti-government protest in the island country’s capital Male, reportedly injuring dozens of activists. About 400 supporters of the former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom gathered in Male on Saturday night, demanding the resignation of incumbent President Mohamed Nasheed over [...]

Maldives: UN climate summit must make big cuts
Maldives: UN climate summit must make big cuts

Maldives prez: UN summit must make big changes to climate policy, time short to stall warming SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ The president of the Maldives warned Friday that the world is running out of time to stall climate change and said he hoped a U.N. climate summit in Mexico this year would put the [...]