{"id":8116,"date":"2022-05-13T12:33:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2022-05-13T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:33:19","slug":"uae-president-sheikh-khalifa-dies-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8116","title":{"rendered":"UAE President Sheikh Khalifa Dies At 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 on Friday, state media said, after battling illness for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE and the Islamic world\u2026 on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on Friday, May 13,\u201d the official WAM news agency said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ministry announced 40 days of mourning with flags at half-mast from Friday, with work suspended in the public and private sector for the first three days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sheikh Khalifa took over as the UAE\u2019s second president in November 2004, succeeding his father as the 16th ruler of Abu Dhabi, the federation\u2019s richest emirate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He has rarely been seen in public since 2014, when he had surgery following a stroke, although he has continued to issue rulings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His brother, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, has been seen as the UAE\u2019s de facto ruler in recent years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died aged 73 on Friday, state media said, after battling illness for several years. \u201cThe Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE and the Islamic world\u2026 on the passing of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan on Friday, May 13,\u201d the official WAM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[279,4819,1246],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-president","tag-sheikh-khalifa","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}