Former Saudi FM Prince Saud al-Faisal dies

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's Prince Saud al-Faisal, who was the world's longest-serving foreign minister, has died, family members and a foreign ministry spokesman said late Thursday.

"May God accept him in paradise," the prince´s nephew Saud Mohammed al-Abdullah al-Faisal said on Twitter.

Saud al-Faisal served as the kingdom's foreign minister for 40 years.