• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

Kuwait in mourning after ex-emir dies

KUWAIT
Tue May 13, 2008 3:18pm EDT

KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait announced three days of mourning on Tuesday after the death of Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, who was briefly emir of the Gulf Arab state in 2006, state media said.

World

The mourning is not expected to affect parliamentary elections in the oil-exporting country, which are scheduled for Saturday.

Sheikh Saad was deposed by parliament on health grounds after just nine days in office in January 2006. He was replaced by Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the current emir who had been the de facto ruler of Kuwait for the previous four years as prime minister.

The ailing Sheikh Saad had been named the 14th emir in the Sabah ruling dynasty on the day of the death of his cousin Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah.

(Writing by Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Stephen Weeks)
World


More from Reuters

Photo

Democrats reach deal on health bill

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic healthcare negotiators said they agreed on Tuesday to replace a government-run insurance option with a scaled-back non-profit plan and would seek cost estimates on the deal.

» More Top News
File photo of snow covered Uhuru peak of the largest free-standing volcano in the world, Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, taken on March 10, 2006. REUTERS/Neil Wallace
Postcards to Copenhagen:

Wish we weren't here

Mount Kilimanjaro's melting snow cap is one of many things forever altered by climate change. Here's a snapshot of a world dealing with environmental destruction.   Full Article 

Climate conference
People prepare to lower the body of one of the ministers killed in a blast from a suicide bomber last Thursday at Shamo Hotel in Somali's capital Mogadishu December 4, 2009. REUTERS/Feisal Omar
witness:

Scenes of a "slaughterhouse"

War is just about the only story to tell in Somalia. But when one reporter tried to cover an event reflecting positive change, violence reared its ugly head again.  Full Article 

World