Arrest warrant issued for ousted Maldives president
<p><a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/arrest-warrant-issued-ousted-maldives-president-084115177.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/miucl8CavTZXgU3kguNd6Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-02-09T085051Z_2_BTRE8180O4U00_RTROPTP_2_MALDIVES-PROTEST.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Maldives President Nasheed announces his resignation in Male" align="left" title="Maldives President Nasheed announces his resignation in Male" border="0" /></a>MALE (Reuters) - The former president of the luxury resort islands of the Maldives faced arrest on Thursday after being ousted from his post earlier in the week in what he said was a coup at gunpoint. A criminal court in the capital Male issued arrest warrants for ex-president Mohamed Nasheed and his former defence minister, but the charges against them were unclear, a senior official of Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) said. "An arrest warrant has been issued for him and his former defence minister," MDP official Adam Manik told Reuters. "We have no idea (what the charges are). ...</p><br clear="all"/>
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