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Qatar's beIN calls on Saudi to shut down pirate channel

Sat Sep 2, 2017 13:03:27

A Qatar-based sports and entertainment broadcaster has called on authorities in Saudi Arabia to close a pirate channel that is airing its content illegally.

The Muslim hajj pilgrimage in numbers

Sat Sep 2, 2017 10:26:52

The Islamic hajj pilgrimage draws people from around the world to Saudi Arabia each year. The crowds, squeezed shoulder to shoulder in prayer five times a day, fill the city of Mecca and surrounding areas to perform a number of physically demanding and intricate rites.

The photos the U.S. and Saudi Arabia don’t want you to see

Thu Aug 31, 2017 13:10:48

With U.S. and U.K. complicity, the Saudi government is committing war crimes in Yemen.

2M Muslims gather near Mecca for peak of hajj pilgrimage

Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:04:42

With their palms facing the sky in supplication, and many with tears in their eyes, around 2 million people from around the world gathered Thursday in an effort to start anew, erase past sins and beg God for forgiveness and guidance in the peak day of the hajj pilgrimage.

Saudi Arabia may finally face accountability in Yemen as another air strike kills five civilians

Thu Aug 31, 2017 10:41:48

At least five civilians have died in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen, eyewitnesses have said, as calls at the UN grow for an independent body to investigate possible war crimes being committed in Yemen’s civil war.

In call with Saudi king, Trump urges end to Qatar dispute: White House

Thu Aug 31, 2017 07:54:37

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Saudi King Salman on Wednesday and urged “all the parties in the Qatar dispute” to find a diplomatic resolution to end a crisis that has embroiled several Gulf countries, the White House said in a statement.

Saudi-led air strike near Yemen capital causes casualties-residents

Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:45:11

Warplanes attacked a checkpoint near the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing and wounding a number of people, residents said.

Iran pilgrims flock to Saudi in diplomatic icebreaker

Tue Aug 29, 2017 09:29:35

In a diplomatic icebreaker between political foes, tens of thousands of Muslim faithful from Iran have flocked to Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites.

Gulf Row stunts Qatar hajj numbers

Tue Aug 29, 2017 08:44:17

Qatar has sent only dozens of its citizens across the border to Saudi Arabia for this week's hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites because of the increasingly bitter crisis between the Gulf neighbors.

Two million pilgrims converge on Mecca for the hajj

Mon Aug 28, 2017 08:38:50

Two million Muslims from across the globe are converging on Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage, a religious duty and for some pilgrims the journey of a lifetime.

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