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multi-media organization with investments in media platforms spanning newspaper
print operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services. The
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influence in matters of national and international interest.
More than a million Muslim pilgrims were in Mecca Friday for the start of a hajj pilgrimage held against the grim backdrop of the Gaza war and in the exhausting summer heat.
Crowds of robed worshippers will circle the Kaaba, the black cubic structure at Mecca's Grand Mosque, with many expressing sadness eight months into the Israel-Hamas war.
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