Prince Mohammed bin Nayef. -AFP/HO/SPA
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Wednesday named his powerful interior minister as heir in a major shakeup that also saw the world’s longest-serving foreign minister replaced.
A royal decree removed Crown Prince Moqren bin Abdul Aziz bin Saud as next in line to the throne and replaced him with Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who headed a crackdown on Al-Qaeda in the oil-rich kingdom a decade ago.
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