The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the (...)
The deadly pandemic that tore through the nation's heartland struck just as Aaron Crawford was in a moment of crisis. He was looking for work, his wife needed surgery, then the virus began eating away at her work hours and her paycheck.
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Ahmad Ahmad, president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and a FIFA vice-president, has been found guilty of having breached four articles of FIFA statues, and has been banned from all football-related activity for five years.
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Saudi Aramco said on Tuesday its domestic fuel supplies were not affected by an attack from Yemen's Houthi group on a petroleum products distribution plant in the north of Jeddah city, with operations resuming three hours after the incident.
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Local authorities of the Saudi governorate of Mecca said a Greek national and a Saudi security officer were wounded in the "cowardly" attack on a non-Muslim cemetery in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
The security services were following the attack on (...)
The serenity of the Siwa Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert was disturbed last weekend when top officials and foreign ambassadors flocked in to witness the inauguration of the Shali Fortress and village in the Oasis after two years of conservation and (...)
The whole Muslim world celebrated this week the anniversary of the Prophet Mohammed's birthday. On that day, Egypt looks different. Streets are illuminated with colourful lights and shops selling specially produced sweets are decorated with lovely (...)
Mecca slowly eases restrictions of a seven-month coronavirus lockdown on Sunday as pilgrims trickled in after Saudi Arabian authorities allow performing umrah – a pilgrimage to Islam's two holiest sites that is undertaken at any time of (...)
A very small, limited number of people donning the white terrycloth garment symbolic of the Muslim pilgrimage circled Islam's holiest site in Mecca on Sunday after Saudi Arabia lifted coronavirus restrictions that had been in place for months.
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Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation's top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91.
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Saudi Arabia allowed on Tuesday the performance of Umrah, an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina undertaken anytime of the year, from inside the kingdom as of Oct. 4, state news agency SPA reported.
Saudi Arabia will allow citizens and residents (...)
Saudi Arabia on Monday released new details on how it plans to gradually allow Muslims back to Islam's holiest site in Mecca to perform the smaller, year-round pilgrimage, which has been suspended for the past seven months due to the (...)
The Western media remains adamant about speaking ill of Egypt. A recent headline in the American magazine Foreign Affairs reads, “The Pandemic Tips the Balance Between Mosque and State,” for example, with the article below considering Egypt's, and (...)
Yasser Al-Sharkawi misses the time when he would head to the Al-Hussein Mosque in Islamic Cairo to perform 15 minutes of Quranic recitation to be put on air ahead of the call for dawn prayer.
Since he was accredited by the Egyptian Radio to perform (...)
Saudi Arabia will soon begin Phase III clinical trials on around 5,000 people for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's CanSino Biologics Inc, a Saudi health ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Last month, CanSino's co-founder said the company was (...)
Despite strong objections from Al-Azhar, on 19 July parliament provisionally approved a law regulating religious fatwas. Drafted by Osama Al-Abd, the head of parliament's Religious Endowments Committee, and other MPs, the law regulates the selection (...)
In years before the coronavirus, some 3 million white-clad pilgrims from across the world flocked to Islam's holiest sites to attend haj under Saudi Arabia's blistering sun.
With the pandemic making large gatherings impossible, only a few thousand (...)
Proclaim to men the pilgrimage: they will come to thee on foot and on every lean camel, coming from every remote path —Quran, Surat Al-Hajj
This time of the year has a particular spiritual significance in the hearts of millions of Muslims around the (...)
Egypt will celebrate Eid El-Adha on Friday 31 July, the country's institution for religious edicts Dar El-Iftaa announced on Monday.
The four-day Eid Al-Adha is one of the two most important religious holidays of the Islamic calendar, along with Eid (...)
Saudi Arabia has issued guidelines for the 1,000 or so pilgrims that will be allowed to perform the hajj pilgrimage in Mecca later this month, an experience that will be unlike any before because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The pilgrims will be (...)
The Saudi Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SDPC) issued, on Monday, the health protocol for the upcoming annual Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj).
The protocol has been put in place to ensure the safety of pilgrims and limit the spread of the novel (...)
The Saudi authorities have taken a compromise decision on the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, by allowing a limited number of local pilgrims to perform the ritual in the week of the end of July and beginning of August due to (...)
أعلنت شبكة قنوات «بي إن سبورت» عن عودتها لبث مباريات الدوري الإيطالي اعتبارًا من مباراة اليوم بين يوفنتوس وليتشي، ضمن منافسات الجولة 28 من المسابقة.
وكتبت الشبكة عبر حسابها الرسمي على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي «تويتر»: " يسعدنا الإعلان عن العودة (...)
The Yemeni island of Socotra fell into the hands of Yemen's southern secessionists last weekend, in a move seen as opposing the internationally recognised government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, which is already fighting Houthi rebels (...)
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it will bar arrivals from abroad to attend the hajj this year due to the coronavirus. It will allow only a limited number of Saudi citizens and residents to make the pilgrimage with social distancing measures (...)
