DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar’s ruler formally handed power Tuesday to his 33-year-old son to cap a carefully crafted transition that puts a younger generation in charge of the Gulf nation’s vast energy wealth and rising political influence after the upheavals of the Arab Spring.
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