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Just one day after the president of Maldives declared his country would not be attending the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark announced plans to help the struggling nation."We can't go to Copenhagen because we don't have the money," President Mohamed Nasheed told reporters on Monday.The Maldives is key to the equation because a 2007 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that a rise in sea levels by 7.2 to 23.2 inches by 2100 would be...

Challenger Mohamed Nasheed defeated Asia's longest serving leader, Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, in a runoff election, officials said. Provisional results indicate Nasheed received 54 percent of the vote compared to 46 percent for Gayoom, the newspaper Hamaroahli reported Wednesday. Nasheed, the MDP alliance candidate, was backed by four opposition presidential candidates who were eliminated Oct. 8 in the first round of the presidential balloting. In announcing the results...

World in brief MALE The first multi-party presidential election in the Maldives will go to a second round of voting within 10 days after the incumbent, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, failed to win outright. Mr Gayoom, above, secured 41 per cent of the votes, while Mohamed Nasheed, the opposition leader, came second with 25 per cent. Four other candidates were knocked out. President Gayoom, Asia's longest- serving leader, has held power in the Indian Ocean archipelago for 30 years. (c) 2008...

By Andrew Buncombe Island state has chance to oust 71-year-old dictator in first free vote for 20 years A MAN nicknamed the "Mandela of the Maldives", Mohammed Anni Nasheed, concluded an exhausting and bitterly-fought presidential election campaign last night, ahead of a vote that will decide the future of the longest serving political leader in Asia. To the outside world, the Maldives appear to epitomise the very essence of a tropical paradise, gifted with white sand beaches and azure...