Iran on Thursday nearly doubled its death toll from the hajj stampede to 464, giving up hope of finding missing pilgrims alive after a tragedy that has sparked a major row with Saudi Arabia./ After Iran threatened a "fierce" response to delays repatriating its dead, Tehran and Riyadh reached an ...
A female Iranian hajj pilgrim, right, weeps as she and her travel companion, second left, are welcomed by their relatives upon arrival at Tehran Imam Khomeini airport, Iran./ Iran's death toll from the Saudi hajj disaster has nearly doubled to 464 pilgrims killed, state media reported Thursday, ...
Saudi medics tend to injured pilgrims after they arrived at an emergency hospital following a deadly stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, on the first day of Eid al-Adha on September 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Al-Shaikh)/ Dubai (AFP) - Hundreds of people were still unaccounted for ...
Tehran says 464 pilgrims died, with 241 still missing/ DUBAI—Iran on Thursday doubled the number of its pilgrims who died in last week’s hajj stampede in Mecca to 464, state media reported, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and regional rival Saudi Arabia. Another 241 of the 64,000 ...
Fighters loyal to Yemen's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, fire a mortar shell during clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels at a military site near the country's third-largest city of Taez on September 9, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Basha)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran rejected as "propaganda" on ...
Bodies line the road after hundreds of pilgrims were killed in a stampede at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia, on September 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran on Thursday nearly doubled its death toll from last week's hajj stampede to 464, saying there was no hope of finding pilgrims ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The website of Iran's state television is reporting that the Iranian death toll from the Saudi hajj disaster has risen to 464 pilgrims killed. Thursday's report saw the death toll rise dramatically — almost doubling — from the previously reported death toll of 239. It wasn't ...
Iranian protesters outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran on September 27, 2015 (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of the 769 Muslim pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede, but several countries have announced the deaths of ...
The death toll of Iranians killed at the disaster at the haj in Saudi Arabia last week has risen to 464, Iran Haj and Pilgrimage Organization said on Thursday. "Seven days after the incident and after visiting hospitals [in Saudi Arabia] ... we sadly announce that number of Iranians died is ...
Iranian women demonstrate outside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran on September 27, 2015 (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - Saudi and Iranian health ministers have agreed to repatriate Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's Hajj stampede, Saudi state media said, after ...
An Iranian pilgrim pushes his luggage upon his return from Saudi Arabia after performing the annual haj pilgrimage, at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran September 28, 2015./ Iran and Saudi Arabia sought to tone down a war of words over last week's haj disaster, with Riyadh offering condolences to ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Shiite rebels says it has foiled an attempt by Iran to smuggle missiles and other weapons to the rebels aboard a fishing boat bound for Yemen. The coalition says in a statement released Wednesday that the seizure took ...
An armed Yemeni Shiite Huthi rebel stands next to a national flag in the capital Sanaa on September 21, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Riyadh (AFP) - The Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday it had seized an Iranian fishing boat in the Sea of Oman loaded with weapons destined for Shiite ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's top leader on Wednesday warned Saudi Arabia of "harsh" measures if the kingdom fails to promptly repatriate the bodies of more than 200 Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's hajj stampede. 's warning came as Iran summoned Riyadh's envoy for the fourth time since last ...
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the ...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released. His statement comes after US President Joe Biden announced Israel had proposed a three-stage plan to ...
US President Joe Biden said that 'it's time for this war to end'/ US President Joe Biden has urged Hamas to accept a new Israeli proposal to end the conflict in Gaza, saying that "it's time for this war to end". The three-part proposal would begin with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israel ...
This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows packaging for, from left, CRECELAC INFANT Powdered Goat-Milk Infant Formula with Iron 0 to 12 months, Farmalac BABY Powdered Infant Formula with Iron 0 to 12 months, and Farmalac BABY Powdered Infant Formula with ...
An unexpected tool is giving us new insight into the fine structure of the outer layers of Using meteorites that were long ago chipped off the red planet around 11 million years ago and flung into space to eventually land on Earth, scientists have been able to study the way volcanism shaped the ...
Some of the fiercest fighting of the war is reported to have taken place in Jabalia/ Israeli forces have pulled out of Jabalia in northern Gaza, after a three-week offensive there which saw tens of thousands of civilians flee the area. The military said "hundreds of terrorists [had been] ...
to become the world's bestselling foldable smartphone brand in the first quarter, marking the first time that the US-sanctioned Chinese giant has topped that segment, according to a consultancy report. Shenzhen-based Huawei saw its foldable smartphone shipments in the first three months of the ...
Former U.S. President Trump's criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records continues in New York/ (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s criminal conviction for illegally covering up a hush money payment to a porn star will not prevent the Republican candidate from pursuing his campaign to ...
While travel can be fun and rewarding, it can also be stressful. Sometimes, the stress starts before you even begin your trip: at the airport. With crowds and frequent flight delays, airports have become a particular source of agitation for travelers. Hitting traffic on the way to the airport or ...
Miners extract mud they hope contains gold at a gold mining site at which adults and youth work in the village of Mawero, on the outskirts of Busia town, in eastern Uganda on Oct. 18, 2021. Billons of dollars worth of gold is smuggled out of Africa each year, according to a report published ...