Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates President whose modernization policies helped transform his country into a regional powerhouse, died on Friday aged 73, state media WAM ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, died Friday, the government announced in a brief statement. He was 73.

Sheikh Khalifa took power in 2004 following the death of his father, the U.A.E.’s founder, but had been ailing in recent years. He underwent an operation after suffering a stroke in 2014 and ...

Sheikh Khalifa always showed great trust in the ability of his fellow citizens to commit to the UAE. On Sheikh Zayed’s Accession Day in 1987 he praised Sheikh Zayed’s conviction that the ...

President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who died on Friday, was a reserved figure who saw the United Arab Emirates skyrocket on the global scene -- but rarely appeared in public himself.