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Kuwait's mourns for old leader, swears in new emir

The cabinet of the OPEC oil producer and U.S. ally swiftly named designated successor Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah as new ruler on Tuesday (September 29) following the death of Sheikh Sabah, 91, whose body arrived in Kuwait from the United States were he had been hospitalized since July.

The funeral has been restricted to ruling family members due to COVID-10 concerns. When the previous emir, Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, died in 2006, thousands of Kuwaitis attended the funeral and many, along with expatriates, lined the streets.