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Muslim pilgrims gather on top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Muslim pilgrims seek forgiveness and shade on Mount Arafat during key Hajj ritual

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A pigeon flies over the site of the Grand Mosque that is empty due to the coronavirus prevention procedures, on the first day of the annual hajj that normally draws millions of faithful, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. A unique and scaled-down hajj started on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Pilgrims pray on peak day of hajj in shadow of coronavirus

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

Muslim pilgrims pray outside Namira mosque in Arafat near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Saudi authorities say about 3.4 million pilgrims — some 1.7 million of them from abroad — have arrived in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for this year's pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Muslims begin hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia

By Aya Batrawy - Associated Press

** FILE ** Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his wife, Suha, hold hands before his departure from his compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah in October 2004. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority, Hussein Hussein)

Arafat’s widow wants French probe into his death

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