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On the second day of the Hajj, Muslims gather at Mount Arafat to mark the most important ritual of the pilgrimage. Nearly two million Muslims have gathered in the vast Saudi plain of Mount Arafat for the most important ritual of the Hajj, an annual...

by:Rory Mulholland, paris 23 APRIL 2017 • 12:54PM Polls have opened in the first round of France’s mostunpredictable and high-stakes presidential election in decades,with far-Right leader Marine Le Pen and the maverick centrist Emmanuel Macron leading the field. A Le Pen victory could...

In a compound in Nigeria’s north-western state of Kaduna, Godwin Josiah and his cousins hang green fabric on a gate as they get ready to shoot a movie scene. Using a smartphone and a tripod made from a broken microphone stand, they start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adzP5p2RC7U A blower...

Sudan hopes the revival of President Donald Trump’s travel ban on its citizens and those of five other Muslim-majority states will not affect the planned lifting of U.S. economic sanctions next month, a Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday...

by Halim Shebaya Saudi minister of state for Arab Gulf Affairs Thamer al-Sabhan has become a household name in Lebanon. Last Sunday, Sabhan considered the silence of Lebanon's government and people "bizarre" in relation to "the war on Saudi Arabia" which the "terrorist militia party" Hezbollah is waging. Two days later, then...

Pro-European Emmanuel Macron is set to face far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in France's presidential run-off, results showed Sunday, making him clear favourite to emerge as the country's youngest leader in its history. Macron topped Sunday's first round with 23.7 per cent of votes, slightly...

Last month, Mo Farah - usually described, since he won gold in the 5000m and 10,000m at both the London and Rio Olympics, as Britain's greatest athlete - ran into Hong Kong for a few days. He'd been invited by Credit Suisse to appear at...

By: AFP A government source said, on condition of anonymity, that the German ambassador to Chad was seen as "interfering too much" in the governance of the country. The German ambassador to Chad,...

The nation's first elected Somali-American lawmaker says she was harassed and called "ISIS" by a taxicab driver in Washington, D.C. Minnesota Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar detailed the incident on her Facebook page on Wednesday. She said the cab driver called her ISIS, lobbed sexist taunts and...

By: Daily Sabah The number of foreigners visiting Turkey increased by 308.48% in May compared to the same month of the previous year, according to data released by the Culture and Tourism Ministry on Monday. The ministry revealed that some 3,824,555 people visited the country in...