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More than 1,000 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as pilgrims faced extreme temperatures, officials said Sunday. Temperatures during the pilgrimage, which took place from Friday, June 14th until Wednesday, June 19th topped 50 degrees celsius on Monday. An Egyptian official said Sunday that more than half of the dead were from Egypt. The government only announced the deaths of 31 authorised pilgrims due to chronic illness, however a cabinet official told Associated Press that at least 630 other pilgrims died, most of them counted at Emergency Complex in Mecca’s Al-M...
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More than 500 people visiting Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage have died in surging temperatures, according to multiple sources, with the reported death toll still rising. Press agency AFP reported that at least 320 of the dead were citizens of Egypt, while Reuters reported that the Indonesian health ministry had recorded 144 deaths among its citizens attending the pilgrimage. Jordan, Senegal, Tunisia and Iran have also confirmed deaths. The total toll currently stands at around 550, nearly double the number of deaths reported at last year's pilgrimage. An estimated 1.8 million people have...
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Masses of pilgrims on Sunday embarked on a symbolic stoning of the devil in Saudi Arabia under the soaring summer heat. The ritual marks the final days of the Hajj, or Islamic pilgrimage, and the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations for Muslims around the world. The stoning is among the final rites of the Hajj, which is one of the Five Pillars of Islam. It came a day after more than 1.8 million pilgrims congregated at a sacred hill, known as Mount Ararat, outside the holy city of Mecca, which Muslim pilgrims visit to perform the annual five-day rituals of Hajj. The pilgrims left Mount Arafat ...
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Muslims from around the world congregated on Saturday at a sacred hill in Saudi Arabia for the climax of the Hajj pilgrimage. Pilgrims gather for a ritual at Mount Arafat, known as the hill of mercy, for an intense day of worship and reflection. The mount is considered sacred as it’s believed that Prophet Muhammad delivered his final speech, known as the Farewell Sermon, at the location 1,435 years ago. In the sermon, the prophet called for equality and unity among Muslims. “It’s indescribable,” Ahmed Tukeyia, an Egyptian pilgrim, said of his experience arriving at a tent camp at the foot of M...
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Saudi Aramco, formally known as the Saudi Arabian Oil Co., acknowledged the stock sale in a corporate disclosure online. It put the number of shares being offered at 1.545 billion, priced at between $7.12 and $7.73 a share. At the high range of the valuation, that would make the shares worth some $11.9 billion. They'll begin being sold on Sunday to institutional investors and on Monday to retail investors. Aramco has a market value of $1.8 trillion, making it the world’s sixth most valuable company behind Microsoft, Apple, NVIDIA, Google owner Alphabet and Amazon respectively. Weekly market re...
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A Spanish judge formally expanded her probe into the Spanish Super Cup to include the former player Gerard Piqué in a group of people now under official investigation. The investigation will focus on allegations of corruption and money laundering related to the hosting of the cup in Saudi Arabia in a lucrative move made by former federation president Luis Rubiales in 2019. The Madrid-based court said on Thursday that contracts signed between the federation and Saudi Arabia in 2019 and 2020 concluded in a 10-year agreement to stage the mini-football tournament in the Middle Eastern nation for €...
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In the desert-hued pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Venice Biennale, a rising harmonised humming fills the space. These are the voices of some 1,000 Saudi women that artist Manal AlDowayan has “brought with her” to the international exhibition. With her all-female team of curators, AlDowayan’s installation aims to be a rebuttal of the international media’s preconceptions of women in Saudi Arabia and an amplification of their own voices instead. In Lebanon’s pavilion, artist Mounira AI Solh challenges the male gaze and the way it has shaped the ancient myth of Europa. Like AlDowayan, she returns...
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In the airy, high-ceilinged dining room of Beit Johkdar Hotel, Jeddah, breakfast is being served. It begins with a basket of warm bread - sesame seed encrusted, cardamon infused and traditional flatbread - with herby butter and black honey. Next come the entreés, spicy olive tapenade, grilled halloumi with apricot jam, fried vegetables and a mini loaf of feta-marbled bread. This is followed by homemade falafel with tahini dipping sauce, spiced hummus, foul mudammas beans and shakshuka. By the time the tiny pancakes, banana bread and fresh fruit arrive, I’ve long admitted defeat. I soon learn t...
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In 1973, in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War — seen by many Israelis as a disastrous failure by Israel’s security establishment —the Geneva Conference convened to address the fallout from the conflict. It was during this conference that Abba Eban, Israel's esteemed diplomat, famously quipped that "the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The phrase encapsulated the reluctance of Palestinian leadership to engage constructively in peace negotiations, once again missing out on a prime opportunity and choosing to continue on their path of terrorism. Now, fifty years l...
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