Topic: Jiddah
Stoning the devil and circling the Mecca Grand Mosque's kaaba shrine, two million pilgrims began the final rituals of the hajj on Saturday ahead of a massive exodus from Islam's holiest city. Tens of thousands of the faithful circled the black cubic ...
More bodies have been recovered in the western Saudi city of Jeddah, gateway for Muslim pilgrims headed to Mecca, pushing the death toll from Wednesday's flash flood to 83, reports said on Friday. The Al-Watan and Okaz newspapers said the toll had ...
ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Bright weather greeted some two million Muslims who rallied around Mount Arafat, where Prophet Mohammad delivered his last sermon, to beg for God's forgiveness Thursday at the peak of the haj. The death toll from heavy rainfalls ...
A day-long downpour fouled the start of the annual hajj on Wednesday, soaking thousands of people as they walked from Mecca to Mina, snarling traffic and stranding buses for hours. Some of the 2.5 million Muslims on the world's largest annual pilgrimage ...
A day-long downpour fouled the start of the annual hajj on Wednesday, soaking thousands of people as they walked from Mecca to Mina, snarling traffic and stranding buses for hours. Some of the 2.5 million Muslims on the world's largest annual pilgrimage ...
Ten people were killed by flooding in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port city of Jeddah and more deaths were feared, a civil defence official said after a massive downpour on Wednesday. "I confirm that it's ten bodies but I can't say anything ...
Flooding killed at least 11 people in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port city of Jeddah on Wednesday after a heavy downpour, with more deaths feared, a civil defence official said. The 11 victims were believed to have drowned, the official said, requesting ...
Swine flu has killed four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage, the health ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency on Saturday. It was the first reported news of fatalities from the disease among ...
A Saudi man has been arrested over charges linked to his televised boasts of sexual exploits, outraging religious conservatives in the Muslim state, newspapers reported on Saturday. Police detained Mazen Abdul-Jawad at an apartment in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah ...
Experts from the United Nations and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday toured entry points used by millions of Muslim pilgrims to assess how the kingdom plans to prevent the spread of swine flu. The field trip is ...
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