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Saudi cell phone market set for aggressive competition this Hajj season
File photo showing a Hajj pilgrim using a cellphone in Mecca. (Asharq Al-Awsat) Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Saudi Arabia’s ‘big three’ wireless carriers will be launching aggressive marketing campaigns...
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King Abdullah praises “colossal efforts” of Saudi security forces
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman receiving military officers and the heads of Hajj delegations at the Royal Palace on October 4, 2014 (SPA)Mina, Asharq Al-Awsat—Custodian of the Holy Mosques King...
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King Abdullah: We will eradicate terrorism, religious extremism
Saudi Crown Prince Salman (C) with Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, President Abdel Hamid of Bangladesh, Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz bin Saud and Prince Khalid...
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Dozens killed in Mecca crane collapse
Saudi emergency teams stand next to a construction crane after it crashed into the Grand Mosque of Saudi Arabia’s holy Muslim city of Mecca on September 11, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / STR)Jeddah, Asharq...
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Saudi King orders inquiry into Hajj stampede
A handout picture provided by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz delivering a speech at the Royal Palace in Mecca on September 24, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / SPA)Mina, Asharq...
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Hajj stampede caused by Iranian pilgrims “not following instructions”: Hajj...
Street 204 in Mina, east of the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where a stampede killed hundreds of pilgrims on September 24, 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat)Mina, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Hajj tragedy that has...
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Iranian officials slam Tehran’s “political point-scoring” over Hajj tragedy
A handout picture released by the official website of the Center for Preserving and Publishing the Works of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shows him delivering a speech in Tehran on...
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Muslim leaders reject Iran’s “politicization” of Hajj tragedy
Muslim pilgrims circle counterclockwise Islam’s holiest shrine, the Kaaba, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia’s holy Muslim city of Mecca late on September 26, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH)...
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Egypt’s Sisi rejects criticism of Saudi Arabia over Hajj tragedy
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi speaks during celebrations to mark the October 1973 (Yom Kippur) War with Israel, in Cairo, Egypt, on October 5, 2015. (Asharq Al-Awsat) Cairo, Asharq...
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Saudi King rejects politicization of Hajj tragedy
King Salman Bin Abdulaziz during a Saudi cabinet meeting at Al-Yamamah palace in the capital, Riyadh, on October 12, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency)Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Criticism of Saudi Arabia over the...
View ArticleOpinion: Politics and Pilgrimage Do Not Mix
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT. During the pilgrimage season in 1987, a fierce confrontation occurred between elements from Iranian militias and some Iranian pilgrims on … continue reading Opinion: Politics and...
View ArticleKhamenei Incites and Hezbollah Drops Hajj Pilgrimage
From ASHARQ AL-AWSAT. Cairo, Riyadh, Beirut-The Lebanese so-called Hezbollah has joined Iran in boycotting the Hajj season, Lebanese sources confirmed to Asharq Al-Awsat. … continue reading Khamenei...
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