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Saudi Arabia announces successful completion of Hajj 2021
Most of this year’s Hajj pilgrims had left Makkah by midday Thursday after performing the farewell circumambulation ritual at the Grand Mosque.
Security, Hajj and health officials have confirmed that all their plans were successfully…
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UN Security Council condemns ‘cowardly terrorist attack’ in Baghdad
The members of the UN Security Council condemned “in the strongest terms the cowardly terrorist attack” on a busy market in Baghdad on Monday.
The blast, the deadliest in the Iraqi capital over the past six months, took place in…
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Hezbollah’s Iranian weapons undermine Lebanon, US national security: Joe Biden
The supply of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah undermines Lebanon’s national security and poses a threat to the security of the US, President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
The president served notice to Congress to extend the national emergency…
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Pilgrims perform Eid al-Adha prayer and Tawaf al-Ifadah, and King Salman congratulates on…
Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia flocked this morning, Tuesday, to the Kaaba, to perform the Tawaf al-Ifadah, amid intensive precautionary measures, on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
The pilgrims also performed the Eid prayer in the Noble…
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Israel shells Lebanon after rockets fired over border
The Israeli military said its artillery shelled southern Lebanon early Tuesday after two rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
The army said in a statement that aerial defenses intercepted one of the rockets, and the…
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Iraq market bomb kills at least 35 on eve of Eid holiday
An explosion ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Monday killing at least 35 people, according to medical sources, in an apparent suicide bombing ahead of Eid holiday celebrations.
In one of the worst attacks in Baghdad in…
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Israeli PM backs down over Muslim holy site in Jerusalem
Israel’s new prime minister backtracked on Monday after claiming that Jews were entitled to “freedom of worship” at Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem, the third-holiest site in Islam.
In fact, the site is administered by Jordan through the…
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Israeli soldiers attack Muslims as Jewish extremists break status quo at Al-Aqsa
Israeli soldiers used force to clear worshippers and protestors from Al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning, to allow over a thousand Jewish extremists to enter Al-Haram Al-Sharif compound.
Members of the Israel Defense Force then failed to…
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Magnitude 5.6 earthquake recorded in Iraq’s Basra
A magnitude earthquake struck the Iranian southern city of Bushehr on Sunday, 250 kilometers from the Iraqi border, the Iraqi General Authority for Meteorology and Seismic Monitoring announced.
The authority said the tremor recorded 5.6…
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Saudi crown prince allocates $1 million as marriage grants
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has directed SR3.74 million ($997,080) to be distributed as marriage grants to 200 young men and women across the Kingdom.
The money comes out of his “keenness to support orphans with…
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