{"id":383500,"date":"2024-07-15T09:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineradionepal.gov.np\/en\/?p=383500"},"modified":"2024-07-15T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:55:20","slug":"dubai-crown-prince-named-uae-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2024\/07\/15\/383500.html","title":{"rendered":"Dubai crown prince named UAE defence minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onlineradionepal.gov.np\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/OIP-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-383501\" width=\"536\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/OIP-1.jpeg 474w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/07\/OIP-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>July 15, Kathmandu: <\/strong>Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum on Sunday announced he appointed his son, the emirate&#8217;s crown prince, as defence minister of the United Arab Emirates in a cabinet reshuffle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has joined the government of the UAE as Deputy Prime Minister and has been appointed Minister of Defence,&#8221; Sheikh Mohammed, who is the UAE&#8217;s prime minister, wrote on X. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheikh Hamdan, 41, is the second son of Sheikh Mohammed and has held the title of crown prince of Dubai since 2008. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The royal graduated in 2001 from Britain&#8217;s elite Sandhurst military college and became chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, a body responsible for strategic development plans in the emirate, in 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His father, Sheikh Mohammed, has been defence minister since the founding of the UAE in 1971 when he was just 22 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the foreign minister, was also appointed as a deputy prime minister in the cabinet shuffle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minor cabinet reshuffle also saw a number of other ministers changed, as well as the merging of ministries. The UAE, one of the world&#8217;s largest oil producers and an ally of the United States, Russia and China, has grown to be a major power in the Middle East. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, Kathmandu: Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum on Sunday announced he appointed his son, the emirate&#8217;s crown prince, as defence minister of the United Arab Emirates in a cabinet reshuffle. &#8220;Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has joined the government of the UAE as Deputy Prime Minister and has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":383501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,24,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-383500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-english","category-international","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383502,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383500\/revisions\/383502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383500"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=383500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}