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Exiled Ex-Maldives Leader Plans Another Run for President

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The exiled former president of the Maldives said Friday he will run again for office, hours after a surprise Supreme Court decision to free a group of political prisoners led to overnight clashes in the capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago. President Yameen Abdul Gayoom had been set to run for re-election this year virtually unopposed, with all of his opponents either jailed or exiled. But ex-President Mohammed Nasheed, among those whose convictions were overturned, said the...

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