Male: Maldives' ousted president Mohammed Nasheed says he was disappointed with India over its response to the political turmoil without having properly understood the ground situation in his country.
Sunday:
Male: Maldives' new President Mohamed Waheed Hassan inducts seven members into his expanded cabinet, including the country's first woman Attorney General and an aide of former dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, as he tries to cement his position as the head of a 'unity government'.
London: Three Indians have been charged with attempted murder of Praveen Reddy, an MBA student here, who was critically stabbed on Friday night in Newham here.
Monday:
Islamabad: In a first, Pakistan's embattled Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani is indicted for contempt by the Supreme Court for failing to reopen graft cases against the President, but he pleaded not guilty to charges which may cost him his job and plunge the nation into further disarray.
Male: Facing coup charges, the Maldives' new regime says it was open to any independent probe into transfer of power in the country, where the Commonwealth is sending a fact-finding team amid efforts by nations like India to resolve political crisis.
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Iran and its "protege" Hezbollah of carrying out the twin bomb attacks on Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia.
Tuesday:
Jerusalem: Israel goes into a state of heightened alert following attacks in India and Georgia, and botched attempts in Thailand, accusing Iran of posing a danger not only to the region's stability but the world as a whole.
Bangkok: An Iranian sets off three blasts in Bangkok,blowing off his own legs while one of his compatriots was arrested when he attempts to flee to Malaysia, a day after Israeli embassy cars are targeted in Indian and Georgian capitals.
Wednesday:
Jerusalem: Accusing Iran of being the world's "biggest exporter" of terror, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today asked the global community to draw a "red line" against Tehran's alleged support to acts of terrorism following a series of blasts in India and Thailand.
Male: With the political crisis in Maldives persisting, ousted President Mohammad Nasheed rejected a police summons to record his statement on his controversial order to arrest a key judge, even as India's top diplomat has arrived here to take stock of the situation.
Thursday:
United Nations: Israel lodges a complaint before the UN chief over the alleged terror campaign launched by Iran and its "proxy" Hezbollah against Israeli targets in recent weeks, including in India and Thailand.
Male: Giving a four-day deadline to ousted President Mohammad Nasheed's MDP, Maldives' new regime asks the party to join the national unity government but it sticks to its demand for snap polls, even as India's Foreign Secretary met all stakeholders here to help ease the political crisis.
Moscow: Nearly two months after a Russian court rejects a ban on a translated version of Bhagvad Gita, a top Siberian prosecutor now demands the removal of a Russian comment only from the book for being "extremist", without affecting the canonical text of the scripture.
Friday:
Oslo: Distraught parents of two Indian-origin children held in Norway under protective care have an emotional re- union with their kids and hoped that the family's suffering will end soon, months after the issue triggered a diplomatic row.
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has asked the Commonwealth to send observers to monitor the forthcoming general election in Pakistan.
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