PALESTINIANS CELEBRATE FESTIVITY OF EID AL-FITR IN GAZA .
Palestinian children play as they celebrate Eid al-Fitr on Eid al-Fitr, in Deir AL-Balah refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip October 13, 2007 Eid al-Fitr is the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.(UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)
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Muslims all over the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr holiday which begins August 30, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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The Eid festival, marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, has been declared on September 10th for most parts of the world including Afghanistan. Eid al-Fitr celebrates the purification achieved by a month of sunrise-to-sunset fasting, one of the five pillars of Islam, and is marked by several days of festivities.
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HOBOKEN, N.J., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Muslims in the United States and abroad said they celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr, which marks the end of a month of fasting, on Sunday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber targeted the home of a provincial party leader in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, killing four people Thursday, police said.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief blamed for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, is alive, a Tehrik-e-Taliban spokesman said.
BAGHDAD, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday in Baghdad, while elsewhere in the city at least three civilians were killed by a car bomb, officials said.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Minneapolis police said they had no suspects Tuesday in the overnight shooting death of a Somali immigrant on the eve of the Eid-al-Fitr religious festival.
JERUSALEM, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The Israeli government has granted full amnesty to 10 Fatah militants as part of an ongoing gesture of goodwill, Palestinian sources say.
LUDHIANA, India, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Six people were killed and about 30 injured in a bomb attack on an Indian movie theater Sunday.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Insurgent attacks targeting Shiite Muslims killed 24 on the second day of the Eid al-Fitr festival Sunday, Iraqi authorities said.
KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- A bomb blast killed five children celebrating the Islamic Eid al-Fitr festival at the end of Ramadan Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said.
GAZA, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the Palestinian Fatah party in Gaza said he doubted the sincerity of an offer for reconciliation talks posted on a Hamas Web site.
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