RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s powerful interior minister, 78-year-old Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, was named the new heir to the throne in a royal decree read out on state television Thursday.
Nayef — who has been interior minister for nearly four decades and led a crackdown on Al-Qaeda in the kingdom — succeeds prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who died last week in New York and was buried Tuesday in Riyadh.
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