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Sri Lankan public security minister Ananda Wijepala says that police and navy officers have been sent to the Maldives to cooperate with local authorities after the Maldivian military seized a Sri Lankan ship with over 300 kilograms of heroin on Friday.
2025-11-9

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

Police violently crack down on and arrest eight people during an overnight protest against government corruption in Malé in the Maldives.
2025-10-3

Maldivian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid is elected the 76th President of the United Nations General Assembly.
2021-06-7

The Maldives imposes a curfew from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. and will only allow people to travel for a few hours each day to obtain essential supplies in order to reduce the number of COVID-19 cases.
2021-05-26

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

India begins exporting the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to Bhutan and Maldives.
2021-01-20

The MT "New Diamond" is towed out of sea off the coast of Sri Lanka amid major fears of a massive oil spill after the ship caught fire yesterday, killing one Filipino crewman. The Panamanian-registered ship carries about 270,000 tonnes of crude oil. The government of the Maldives has expressed worry, with a presidential minister saying that the country needs to take all precautions to prevent oil from reaching its shores.
2020-09-4

The Maldives leaves the Commonwealth of Nations after 34 years, claiming that it has been "unfairly and unjustly" treated by the intergovernmental organization.
2016-10-13

2012 Maldives Crisis: A Commonwealth-backed inquiry dismisses claims that a military coup forced former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed from power.
2012-08-30