King’s death brings Saudis closer to the end of a political era

Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz died on Thursday, less than a month after he was hospitalized with pneumonia. His half-brother, 79-year-old Crown Prince Salman, will succeed him. The late king was the fifth in a line of brothers that ascended to the Saudi throne after their father, King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, died in 1953. King Ibn Saud was the first monarch of modern Saudi Arabia. Since his death, Saudi rulership has been passed down among his many sons. Abdullah’s successor, Crown Prince S

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