King Abdullah’s illness focuses minds on Saudi succession


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Issue 985 - 22 Jan 2015 | 7 minute read

King Abdullah Bin Abdelaziz Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s 90-year-old monarch, remains in hospital in Riyadh, three weeks after being diagnosed with pneumonia. The aged king, who has a history of breathing problems, was admitted for tests on 31 December, and became ill enough to require what the Royal Court described as a “tube to be temporarily fitted to help breathing”; the court’s 2 January statement said that the procedure had been successfully carried out that evening.

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