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Explainer: Maldives Crisis Deepens as Opposition Leader Seeks Indian Intervention

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The declaration of a state of emergency in the Maldives and arrest of two senior judges prompted a exiled former president to ask India on Tuesday to send an envoy backed by military to free political prisoners on the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago. Here's background information on the crisis engulfing the overwhelmingly Muslim nation of 400,000 people, whose faraway islands are best known as a luxury holiday destination. Key figures President Abdulla Yameen declared the...

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