With Saudi King Ailing, Stakes, Anticipation Run High

It was Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince – not the King, as customary– who inaugurated the sixth session of the consultative Shura Council this week. King Abdullah, 90, has been hospitalized with pneumonia for more than a week, and this has renewed speculation about who will succeed him to the throne and lead the kingdom during a time of political and economic uncertainty. Since the death of the ...