Muslims perform noon prayers around the holy Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday. Over the next two days, an estimated 2.5 million pilgrims taking part in the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage will move out of Mecca to Mount Arafat for Tuesday's climax of symbolically stoning the devil. Security has been tightened for the event.
Hasan Sarbakhshian, Associated Press
Muslims perform noon prayers around the holy Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday. Over the next two days, an estimated 2.5 million pilgrims taking part in the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage will move out of Mecca to Mount Arafat for Tuesday's climax of symbolically stoning the devil. Security has been tightened for the event.
UN 'horrified' by massacre
U.N. envoy Kofi Annan called Monday on "every individual with a gun" in Syria to lay down arms.
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The Muslim Brotherhood's candidate and Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister will compete for presidency.
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