Mecca
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Mecca Int’l Quran Competition Participants Receive Cash Prizes
Winners and other participants in the 46th King Abdulaziz international Quran contest, which concluded in Mecca earlier this week, were awarded cash prizes at the end of the Quranic event.
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Jerusalem Post: The Mecca Defense Pact Is Dangerous!
The Jerusalem Post, expressing concern over the joint defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, wrote that the statements of Pakistan's Defense Minister about forming a "united military front" against Israel, made one day after the signing of this agreement, indicate that this coalition is more than a technical understanding and could alter regional security equations.
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Israel's Severe Concern Over Egypt's Possible Joining of Mecca Pact; Cairo's Accession Transform Balance of Power in Middle East
Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Israel's severe concern over the possibility of Egypt joining the defense pact between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, considering it a threat to the Camp David Accords and a transformative factor in the regional balance of power.
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Mecca Pact: Who Should Be Worried—Israel, Iran, or India?
The signing of a defence agreement among Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in Mecca appears to go beyond a bilateral or purely symbolic military accord.
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Million-Man Marches in Sanaa Condemn Trump's Insult to Holy Mecca
The capital, Sanaa, witnessed million-man marches under the slogan “Condemning the Insult of the Zionist Criminal Trump to Holy Mecca,” where an issued statement strongly condemned the systematic insults to Islamic sanctities and symbols by “global Zionism and its tools.”
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Worshippers Fill Mecca Grand Mosque on Ramadan’s First Friday
A vast ocean of worshippers filled the Grand Mosque in Mecca on Friday, gathering for the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan.
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World’s Largest Handwritten Quran Unveiled in Mecca, Enters Guinness World Records
The Quran Museum in Mecca’s Hira Cultural District has unveiled a 312-by-220-centimeter handwritten Quran spanning 700 pages, officially recognized by Guinness as the world’s largest of its kind.