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Mohamed Nasheed

Portraits of China's former top leaders from left Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and including the current President Xi Jinping are seen at a military camp in Beijing, China

Chinese Communist Party cements Xi Jinping’s rule

Top of The World

The Chinese Communist Party passes a resolution that will secure President Xi Jinping’s political future. Also, South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, F.W. de Klerk, dies at the age of 85. And, Germany registers its highest daily number of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.

VIDEO: In the Maldives, president claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint

Global Politics

Maldives working to be carbon-neutral by 2020

Environment

In the island nation of the Maldives, China and India trying to assert themselves

Mohamed Nasheed and Jon Shenk on the State of the Maldives

Former Maldives President Calls for New Elections

Conflict & Justice

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Andrew North about the latest developments from the Maldives.

Climate-Crusading Maldives President Resigns

Conflict & Justice

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned after weeks of unrest. Host Marco Werman reports on the sudden resignation of a leader who had been a vociferous campaigner for action on climate change.

Maldives Looking At ‘Carbon Neutrality’ by 2020

Business, Economics and Jobs

The government of the Maldives plans to make the Indian Ocean island nation “carbon neutral” by 2020. It’s an effort to set an example for other countries and help avert the possible inundation of much of the country in the face of rising sea levels.

Even in the Maldives, Climate Change Seems a Remote Threat for Many

Environment

The Maldives is one of the countries most imminently threatened by rising seas from climate change. But as Lily Jamali reports, even many people in the tiny Indian Ocean nation don’t sense a real threat to their lives and livelihoods.

China’s Climate Fan Fare

At the United Nations Summit on Climate Change in New York, Chinese President Hu Jintao drew praise for his commitment to fighting climate change. But those skeptical of the praise for the Chinese president say both he and US President Barack Obama had li