The death toll is still climbing after a horrifying stampede in the environs of Mecca, site of the annual Hajj, the holiest pilgrimage in Islam. More than 700 pilgrims were crushed to death in Mina, a bowl-shaped desert plain that becomes a vast and crammed temporary encampment during the Hajj. It's also the site of an important Hajj […]
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