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The President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa, is dead

2022-05-13T10:44:38.379Z


The government has declared “an official mourning and the flags at half mast” for a period of 40 days.


The President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who had accompanied his country's meteoric rise on the international scene for the past two decades, has died, authorities announced on Friday.

The government has declared "official mourning and flags lowered" for 40 days, the official WAM news agency said.

The late head of state had been rare in public since a stroke in January 2014.

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Source: leparis

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