Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has died in hospital and is to be buried on Friday afternoon- that's according to the country's state media.
The king- who was in his nineties- had been in hospital for some weeks suffering from a lung infection.
U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia had been strained recently over the repression of political dissidents.
Nina-Maria Potts reports:
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