{"id":42228,"date":"2020-01-11T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T11:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42228"},"modified":"2020-01-11T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T11:22:11","slug":"sultan-qaboos-of-oman-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=42228","title":{"rendered":"Sultan Qaboos of Oman dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"53\">\n<p>\nOman&#8217;s\u00a0official television announces the inauguration of Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said, Sultan of the country on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\nAl-Watan and Al-Roya newspapers had reported earlier on their Twitter accounts that Tariq Al-Said\u00a0took the oath of allegiance as sultan to succeed his cousin Qaboos bin Said who died on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/1787981\/000_was107890.jpg\" width=\"840\"><figcaption>\n(File\/AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nEarlier reports said that the Council of Oman held an emergency session on Saturday morning at its headquarters in Al-Bustan.<\/p>\n<p>\nQaboos had no children and had not publicly appointed a successor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nTariq Al-Said\u00a0was serving as the Minister of National Heritage and Culture. He graduated from Oxford University in 1979 after studying the Foreign Service Programme.<\/p>\n<p>\nTariq Al-Said, often played an important diplomatic role, representing Oman abroad and welcoming Britain\u2019s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, for example, upon their arrival to the country for a visit in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oman&#8217;s\u00a0official television announces the inauguration of Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said, Sultan of the country on Saturday. Al-Watan and Al-Roya newspapers had reported earlier on their Twitter accounts that Tariq Al-Said\u00a0took the oath of allegiance as sultan to succeed his cousin Qaboos bin Said who died on Friday. (File\/AFP) Earlier reports said that the Council of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42228","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\/42228","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=42228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}