{"id":16890,"date":"2018-12-28T06:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=16890"},"modified":"2018-12-28T06:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T06:39:26","slug":"saudi-foreign-minister-demoted-in-government-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2018\/12\/28\/saudi-foreign-minister-demoted-in-government-reshuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi foreign minister demoted in government reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Salman of Saudi Arabia ordered a major government reshuffle Thursday, replacing the ministers of foreign affairs and information, a royal decree said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shake up comes as the kingdom grapples with international pressure over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim al-Assaf, a former finance minister, will replace Adel al-Jubeir as foreign minister, the decree said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jubeir was demoted to minister of state for foreign affairs, it added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turki al-Shabanah was appointed as the new minister of information, replacing Awwad al-Awwad &#8212; who was named as an advisor to the royal court.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Turki al-Sheikh, a close aide to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was removed as the head of the kingdom&#8217;s sports commission and named entertainment authority chief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the reshuffle, Prince Mohammed is set to maintain his political and security posts, including that of defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Salman of Saudi Arabia ordered a major government reshuffle Thursday, replacing the ministers of foreign affairs and information, a royal decree said. &nbsp; The shake up comes as the kingdom grapples with international pressure over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. &nbsp; Ibrahim al-Assaf, a former finance minister, will replace Adel al-Jubeir as foreign minister, the decree said. &nbsp; Jubeir was demoted to minister of state for foreign affairs, it added. &nbsp; Turki al-Shabanah was appointed as the new minister of information, replacing Awwad al-Awwad &mdash; who was named<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16892,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions\/16892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}