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Maldives Holds Run-Off Election After Delays, Protests

The Maldives holds a run-off presidential election on Saturday that the Indian Ocean archipelago's 240,000 voters hope will end two years of political turmoil.   Three previous attempts to elect a new leader have been annulled or postponed in as many months, as election favorite Mohamed Nasheed and the parliament have clashed with a political old guard backed by the Supreme Court.   Nasheed, who became the Maldives' first democratically elected president in 2008, left...


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