Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that as many as 1,301 people died during the Hajj pilgrimage, with "numerous cases" due to heat stress and "unauthorized" trips accounting for over four out of five of the deaths
Sania Mirza announces her upcoming pilgrimage to Hajj, embracing a spiritual journey while bidding farewell to her tennis career.
Up to 10,000 people residing in the kingdom will participate in the Muslim ritual, a tiny fraction of the 2.5 million that attended last year, after what many saw as an opaque selection process that left a wave of applicants rejected.
More than 1.7 million Muslims from around the world have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the start of the annual…
