[ Ссылка ] Weeks of opposition protests and a police mutiny have sparked a shake-up in the Maldives with the swearing in of a new head of state.
Vice-President Waheed Hassan stepped up to the top job amid claims that his predecessor had been forced out in a coup earlier in the day.
The new president's office denies there was any coup. It says the departure of Nasheed, the Maldives' first democratically-elected president, was the wish of the people.
