Bahrain's longtime prime minister dies at 84

Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa was among the world's longest-serving prime ministers.
Street billboards mourning the death of Bahraini Prime Minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, line a highway in the capital Manama, on November 11, 2020. - Bahrain's Prince Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, the world's longest-serving prime minister who had held the post since independence in 1971, died at the age of 84, state media announced. (Photo by Mazen Mahdi / AFP) (Photo by MAZEN MAHDI/AFP via Getty Images)
Street billboards mourning the death of Bahrain's prime minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, line a highway in the capital Manama, on Nov. 11, 2020. - MAZEN MAHDI/AFP via Getty Images
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Bahrain’s Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers, has died at the age of 84.

Without specifying his cause of death, the official Bahrain News Agency announced that Prince Khalifa died Wednesday morning at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The octogenarian prime minister flew in March to Germany for unspecified medical treatment. 

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