{"id":26590,"date":"2018-12-22T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26590"},"modified":"2018-12-22T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:22:21","slug":"saudi-prince-talal-bin-abdulaziz-dies-aged-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26590","title":{"rendered":"Saudi prince Talal bin Abdulaziz dies aged 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"92.6277021617\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/saudi-arabia.html\">Saudi<\/a>\u00a0Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a vocal supporter of reform in the kingdom, has died aged 87, the royal court said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Prince Talal, the senior member of the al-Saud family and father of billionaire investor Alwaleed bin Talal, had been ill for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">He\u00a0held various senior government positions in the 1950s and 1960s, including communications minister and finance minister.<\/p>\n<p>He lived in exile abroad in the 1960s, when Saudi authorities revoked his passport after he led a group of princes demanding constitutional reforms and allied himself with the then Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the arch foe of the Saudi monarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Talal returned to the kingdom after Faisal bin Abdulaziz al-Saud became the king in 1964, and after toning down his rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, he resigned from the Allegiance Council, the body responsible for overseeing the royal succession in the world&#8217;s top oil exporter.<\/p>\n<p>He also supported moves to give Saudi women greater rights to work and allow them to drive, and limit Riyadh&#8217;s substantial military spending.<\/p>\n<p>The royal court said funeral prayers would be offered for the prince in capital Riyadh on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Talal had been hospitalised in Riyadh though it was not clear where he died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Reuters news agency<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi\u00a0Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a vocal supporter of reform in the kingdom, has died aged 87, the royal court said on Saturday. Prince Talal, the senior member of the al-Saud family and father of billionaire investor Alwaleed bin Talal, had been ill for several years. He\u00a0held various senior government positions in the 1950s and 1960s,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}