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In the Maldives, people born since 2007 are permanently banned from buying or using tobacco, making it the first country in the world to impose a lifelong smoking ban from a certain age.
2025-11-1

Maldivian president Mohamed Muizzu ratifies the Media and Broadcasting Regulation Law, which allows fines, license suspensions, and closures of media outlets found in violation of its provisions.
2025-09-18

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi announces India will lend a US$565 million credit line to the Maldives, gift their armed forces several heavy fighting vehicles, and launch formal talks for a free-trade agreement.
2025-07-25

Maldives reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a tourist that arrived in the country.
2021-12-5

Former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed and four other people are injured in a bomb blast in the capital Malé.
2021-05-6

Police forcibly break up a protest in Malé, Maldives, with tear gas and pepper spray and detain multiple journalists. The demonstration was against government moves to introduce a new law to criminalize defamation.
2016-04-3

Maldives jails opposition leader Sheikh Imran Abdulla for terrorism. It is claimed that he urged the overthrow of the government in a speech.
2016-02-17

Somali pirates hijack an Iranian-owned cargo ship with 23 crew in waters off the Maldives - the first hijacking in such territory.
2012-03-26

Nasheed later resigns on national television as the unrest spreads with the mutinying officers gaining control of state television.
2012-02-7