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“With great sadness and sorrow for the failure … the death of Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, Emir of the State of Kuwait,” Sheikh Ali Jarrah al-Sabah, Minister of Royal Affairs, told television .
Before the announcement of the loss, state television stopped broadcasting the scheduled program and began broadcasting a reading of the Quran.
Emir has been in treatment at a US hospital since July, having previously undergone surgery in Kuwait.
Information about Emir’s illness and the course of treatment was not made public. Where he died, the palace also did not report.
Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, who has ruled the oil-rich Gulf state since 2006, underwent surgery for appendicitis in 2002 and had a pacemaker inserted two years earlier. In 2007, he underwent urinary tract surgery in the United States.
Under Kuwaiti law, when the emir is not in the country, the brother of the false emir, 83-year-old Sheikh Nawaf al Ahmad Al Sabah, temporarily takes over as head of state.
Sheikh Nawaf, who has held senior positions for decades and headed the Defense and Interior Ministries, should be appointed the country’s new emir.
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