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MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Heavy rains sweeping across Saudi Arabia during the pilgrimage to Mecca left 48 people dead, it was reported Thursday.
Rains lashed Jeddah and the adjacent holy places of Mina, Muzdalifah and Arafat. Traffic was reported clogged in Jeddah, 50 miles west of Mecca, and officials reported the sewage system was severely affected, RIA Novosti said.
Meanwhile, the number of foreign pilgrims gathering for Thursday's hajj in Mecca exceeded 1.6 million, Prince Naif, Saudi Arabia's second deputy prime minister, said in a telegram to Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.
Saudi news agency SPA said the number of foreign pilgrims representing 183 nationalities, was down 7 percent from 2008.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
A man who made his young son run around and do pushups in the New York City snow in his underwear has incited outrage from people who say he is cruel.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
Macaulay Culkin is in "perfectly good health," his publicist said after the former child star was photographed looking gaunt and disheveled in New York.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The Israeli government plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal with a sea-based defense radar system off its Mediterranean coast while forming a naval force to protect its rich offshore gas fields against terrorist attack.
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