Two million pilgrims arrive in Mina for Hajj
SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Wednesday 23 September 2015 Last update 23 September 2015 2:30 am MINA: Two million Muslims from around the world arrived in the Mina valley outside the […]
Arafat cemetery opens to relatives of deceased Hajis
Some pilgrims returned to Arafat on Wednesday to visit their loved ones who died during the Haj over the past few years. The undated cemetery is only open one day […]
Arafat: Merits of the day
Allah the Almighty preferred some months to others, some days to others and some nights to others and selected specific times in the year to be seasons of worship and […]
Over 2 million prepare for Haj climax
MINA: HANI HAZAIMEH & SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Friday 3 October 2014 In scenes of devotion seen nowhere else on the planet, over two million pilgrims, wrapped in seamless white […]
Swiss expert dismisses Russian 'political declaration' on Arafat
STORY SUMMARY The Swiss expert who examined samples of Yasser Arafat’s remains dismissed as a “political declaration” a statement Thursday by Russian researchers excluding radiation poisoning as the cause for the Palestinian leader’s death. Bochud criticised the Russians for not releasing their report. Some 60 samples were taken and divided […]
Swiss expert dismisses Russian ‘political declaration’ on Arafat
STORY SUMMARY The Swiss expert who examined samples of Yasser Arafat’s remains dismissed as a “political declaration” a statement Thursday by Russian researchers excluding radiation poisoning as the cause for the Palestinian leader’s death. Bochud criticised the Russians for not releasing their report. Some 60 samples were taken and divided […]
POSSIBLE POISONING : Radiation specialists maintain Arafat death analysis
swissinfo.ch and agencies December 5, 2013 – 14:22 Swiss experts have defended their conclusions that Yasser Arafat was possibly poisoned with polonium, contradicting analysis by French scientists that suggests other […]
Muslim pilgrims urge to heal divisions at hajj zenith
By Omar Hasan – Agence France Presse MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia: Some 1.5 million Muslim pilgrims thronged Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia Monday for the high point of the annual […]
A massive change for Mina in 30 years
MINA: SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Monday 14 October 2013 The tent city of Mina remains deserted throughout the year. It comes to life only during the five days of each […]
Hajis beging streaming into Mina
MINA: SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Sunday 13 October 2013 Hundreds of thousands of Haj pilgrims began streaming into tent city at Mina by foot, on buses and in four-wheel drives […]
Arafat to have permanent tents
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Studies are under way to establish permanent fireproof tents in Arafat, said Saud bin Hamdan Al-Dikri, director of projects at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs. […]
Arafat poisoning probe: Body to be exhumed in November
RAMALLAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 31 October 2012 Criminal investigators from France will exhume Yasser Arafat’s remains next month to try to find out how the Palestinian leader died, a French official said yesterday. The official said the team from France would arrive sometime between Nov. 24 and Nov. 26 in […]
Hajj pilgrims begin devil-stoning ritual as Eid starts
By Lynne Nahhas, Abdel Hadi al-Habtoor DAILY STAR LEBANON MINA, Saudi Arabia: Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims began to stone a pillar representing Satan in the Saudi holy city […]
Three million stand at Arafat in Haj climax
SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS STAFF Friday 26 October 2012 MINA: In an atmosphere filled with spirituality and serenity, nearly 3 million pilgrims yesterday performed the most important rite of […]
Pilgrims to perform Wuquf Arafat today
MINA: The Hajj pilgrims will perform the most vital pillar of Hajj, i.e. Wuquf-e-Arafat (Stay at Mount Arafat) today (Thursday), Geo News. Mufti-e-Azam will deliver Hajj sermon in Masjid-e-Nimra. Hundreds […]
Mina valley reverberates with talbiyah
MINA: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Thursday 25 October 2012 The valley of Mina yesterday reverberated with the chants of “Labaik Allahuma Labaik … Here I am at Thy service O God,” […]
Swiss experts ready to help Arafat probe, but time running out
GENEVA — A Swiss institute has agreed to a request from the Palestinian Authority to exhume Yasser Arafat’s body and determine whether he was poisoned, but time is running out for a credible scientific examination of his remains, it said on Thursday. The Palestinian leader died in a Paris military […]
Switzerland: Lausanne researchers to examine Arafat’s body
A team of Swiss scientists has been given the go-ahead to test the exhumed body of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for traces of radioactive polonium. Poisoning by this substance […]
Arafat’s widow to file suit in Paris over death: lawyer
AFP ARABNEWS Tuesday 10 July 2012 PARIS: Yasser Arafat’s widow is to file a lawsuit in France following allegations the Palestinian leader died at a Paris hospital in 2004 after […]