{"id":623019,"date":"2023-12-19T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=623019"},"modified":"2023-12-19T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T05:45:28","slug":"sheikh-meshal-everything-you-need-to-know-about-oil-rich-kuwaits-new-emir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sheikh-meshal-everything-you-need-to-know-about-oil-rich-kuwaits-new-emir\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Meshal: Everything you need to know about oil-rich Kuwait&#8217;s new Emir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has become Kuwait&#8217;s new Emir following the death of Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, aged 86, last week. Sheikh Meshal, (sometimes written Mishal), was declared the Crown Prince just three years ago and has been the state&#8217;s de facto ruler since the late Sheikh Nawaf&#8217;s health declined in 2021. According to Reuters, the succession was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Issa Al-Kandari. The state has also announced a 40-day mourning period and a three-day closure of all official departments. As global tributes for the late Emir pour in, here is everything you need to know about Sheikh Meshal, his background, contributions, and what his appointment means for Kuwait and its international relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has become Kuwait&#8217;s new Emir following the death of Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah, aged 86, last week. Sheikh Meshal, (sometimes written Mishal), was declared the Crown Prince just three years ago and has been the state&#8217;s de facto ruler since the late Sheikh Nawaf&#8217;s health declined in 2021. According to Reuters, the succession was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Issa Al-Kandari. The state has also announced a 40-day mourning period and a three-day closure of all official departments. As global tributes for the late Emir pour in, here is everything you need to know about Sheikh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}