TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Thousands of mourners have attended funeral services in Iran for pilgrims killed in a stampede during last month's hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. A ceremony at Tehran University on Sunday was one of several held for dozens of victims whose remains were flown back to Iran ...
Ceremonies took place across Iran on Sunday to honour citizens killed in a stampede at the hajj, as a second plane returned the bodies of 114 pilgrims from Saudi Arabia./ The latest repatriation of corpses from the giant September 24 crush came after 104 bodies were brought home on Saturday, ...
Muslim pilgrims gather around the bodies of people crushed in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015./ Iran is welcoming a plane carrying home the first group of Iranian pilgrims killed in last week's stampede during the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage in ...
The first plane carrying the bodies of some of the 464 Iranian pilgrims killed in a haj stampede in Saudi Arabia has landed in Tehran. Rough cut (no reporter narration)./ ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION The first plane carrying the bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a haj stampede landed in ...
An honour guard carries the caskets of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede at the annual hajj, on their arrival on October 3, 2015 at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Tehran (AFP) - The first bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in a stampede at the annual hajj arrived home ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The first plane carrying bodies of Iranian pilgrims killed in the hajj stampede in Saudi Arabia arrived in Tehran Saturday, nine days after the disaster that escalated tensions between the two regional rivals. President Hassan Rouhani and other senior officials were at the ...
Iranian women protest outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran on September 27, 2015, four days after the deadly hajj stampede (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)/ Dubai (AFP) - Saudi authorities have yet to provide a breakdown of the nationalities of the 769 Muslim pilgrims they say were killed in the hajj ...
Iranians will march in a procession to say goodbye to the bodies of 104 pilgrims killed during a stampede in Mecca on September 24. The goodbye ceremony will be held at the University of Tehran main campus and the bodies will be sent from there to their hometowns. So far 465 Iranians have been ...
President Hassan Rouhani will attend on Saturday the ceremony to be held for the first batch of the corpses of the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims who were killed in Mina tragedy in Mecca last Thursday, The ceremony for the dead Iranian Hajj pilgrims is slated for Saturday at the presence of ...
Civil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis/ An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says. Nasser hospital said one of Dr Alaa al-Najjar's children and her husband were ...
The limited amount of food that trickled into Gaza after an Israeli blockade was partly lifted has sparked chaotic scenes, as hunger continues to spread. Bakeries distributing food were overwhelmed by crowds and forced to close on Thursday, and armed looters attacked an aid convoy overnight - ...
A headline in Israel's liberal daily Ha'aretz this week put it starkly: "Diplomatic tsunami nears," it warned, "as Europe begins to act against Israel's 'complete madness' in Gaza." This week's diplomatic assault has taken many forms, not all of them foreseen. From concerted international ...
Israel's PM has accused the leaders of the UK, France and Canada of being on "the wrong side of history"/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders have "effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power". He also accused British, French and Canadian ...
Jeanine Pirro lays out charges against DC shooting suspect/ The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staff members outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC has been charged with first-degree murder, as well as murder of foreign officials and related firearm charges. Wednesday ...
The BBC's Wyre Davies sees urgently needed Gaza aid going through Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing/ More than 90 lorry loads of humanitarian aid have been collected by UN teams inside the Gaza Strip, three days after Israel eased an 11-week-long blockade. The aid, which included flour, baby food ...
Yaron Lischinsky was preparing to propose to his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim. He had just bought an engagement ring, and planned to ask on a trip to Jerusalem next week. But on Wednesday night in Washington, they were shot dead by a man who shouted "free Palestine" outside the Capital Jewish Museum ...
On Tuesday 13 May, Israeli strikes on the European Hospital in Gaza killed 28 people and injured dozens, according to the Hamas-run civil defence agency. BBC Verify analysed footage, gathered witness testimony and spoke to munitions and legal experts to examine how one of Gaza's last functioning ...
BBC at the scene of shooting outside Jewish museum/ A young couple who worked for the Israeli Embassy have been shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC. Police say the victims, who have been named as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were killed by a man who shouted "free, free ...
Videos showed protests chanting: "Out! Out! Out! All of Hamas, out."/ Palestinians have taken to the streets in southern Gaza for a third day to protest against Hamas. Hundreds of demonstrators were seen in videos posted on social media calling for an end to the war and for the removal of the ...