Waheed Hassan Manik

Protesters in the Maldives blocked the new president from entering parliament on Thursday, the latest salvo in a political crisis that has begun to hurt the Indian Ocean archipelago's reputation as a laid-back luxury tourist paradise.

Protesters in the Maldives blocked the new president from entering parliament on Thursday, the latest salvo in a political crisis that has begun to hurt the Indian Ocean archipelago's reputation as a laid-back luxury tourist paradise.