The authorities in New York have placed a passenger plane under quarantine. That happened after about a hundred passengers became unwell during a flight from Dubai to the American city, reports US media.
Hajj, the largest pilgrimage in the world, is about to begin. From Sunday evening to Friday evening, the Saudi city of Mecca will visit around three million Muslims from all parts of the world, including several thousand pilgrims from the Netherlands.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates support Jordan with an aid package worth around $ 2.5 billion (more than EUR 2.1 billion). This was agreed by the leaders of the countries during consultations in Mecca about the 'economic crisis' in Jordan, reports the Saudi state press agency SPA.
A prominent Saudi sheik believes that celebrating Valentine's Day does not conflict with Islamic teachings. He thereby renounces the strict religious policy in the kingdom. Sheikh Ahmad al-Ghamdi, former head of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Immorality in the Mecca region, said Thursday in an interview with Arab News that Muslims can focus love on February 14 with confidence.
Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has shown himself in unusually clear language advocate of liberalization of the ultraconservative kingdom. 'We are returning to moderate Islam, which is open to the world and all religions,' he said Tuesday at a conference in Riyadh. There he was addressed to the radical ideas that still prevail in the country.
About two million Muslims start the hayj, the annual pilgrimage to their holy places in Saudi Arabia.
The adventurous company of the Bin Laden family, the Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) resumes next month after the annual pilgrimage hadj, the renovation of the great mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca.
Saudi Arabia's security forces disputed a major attack on the Great Mosque in Mecca on Friday. That reported Arab television stations. Three groups of terrorists would have been arrested.
Iraqi Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari (Foreign Affairs) has played a mediating role between the warring neighbors Saudi Arabia and Iran. The minister made in his own words, including the role of messenger, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported Saturday.
Saudi Arabia claims to have intercepted two rockets from the rebellious Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen. One missile was aimed at the Saudi city of Taif, near Mecca, according to the regime in the Ryad capital.
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday appeared in public on the occasion of the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, Eid al-Adha. Assad took part in a prayer service at a mosque in battered daraya, a southwestern suburb of Damascus."
"One and a half million Muslims are Saturday morning began the ritual hajj in Mecca, under strict precautions. There have been placed cameras everywhere and the pilgrims wear bracelets with GPS so that the authorities can keep track of where it is busiest and possibly warn it might be too busy."
Two million people start Friday in the Saudi capital city of Mecca on the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage which every Muslim must make sure it can afford once in his life. Saudi Arabia is doing its utmost to avoid a repetition of the disaster of last year.
The spiritual leader of Shiite Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Monday fiercely lashed out at Sunni family that Saudi Arabia and there reigns situated holy places. Khamenei said the Saudis disbelievers with a very sensitive nature. The Islamic world would be better off in his administration of the holy places in Mecca and Medina to true Muslims to trust.
Iran on Sunday confirmed that it has executed the nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri. His family had already reported Saturday that he was hanged.
Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who was held captive since 2010 in his own country, was executed according to his family. His mother said Saturday the BBC that the body of Amiri has been transferred.
At a hotel in the Saudi pilgrimage Mecca on Sunday broke a gigantic fire. The thick smoke clouds from afar.
a man has blown himself to the US consulate in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, when police attempted to arrest him. Two officers were injured. That report local media Monday.
Muslims go to Mecca on pilgrimage this year, get an electronic bracelet bearing personal and medical data. The local government hopes to get a better grip on the huge crowds that the annual pilgrimage, called the hajj, like to make.
The German national football team is no longer,, German in the classic sense of the word. ' That Alexander Gauland, said one of the leaders of the German anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany, Friday. It is the second time in a week that Gauland becomes discredited with a note on non-white football players.
Certainly nineteen pilgrims Saturday in Saudi Arabia killed as the bus in which they were tilted. This was done according to news channel Al Jazeera on the road between Medina and Mecca, two holy cities for Muslims.
In a serious bus accident in southern Jordan, 14 people died and 36 people were injured, some of whom are listed in critical condition in hospital. The accident occurred Wednesday night on the border with Saudi Arabia, the Jordan Times reported.
The couple earlier this month in California's San Bernardino killed fourteen people, got to know each other in Mecca and is engaged there. This is evident from the visa application of Rizwan Syed Farook for his fiancée Tashfeen Malik, who arrived Tuesday in the investigation into the shooting in public.
A woman for the first time in history, won a seat in the municipal council of the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. That is what the electoral commission announced Sunday after the preliminary results were in, write foreign media. She took on seven men and two women.
During the mass panic that arose last month when a ritual during the hajj in Saudi Mecca are many more deaths than reported so far through official channels . That allows the German news agency DPA , based on its own count. DPA is based on more than 1,800 deaths , while the authorities in Saudi Arabia have reported 769 deaths.
