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Newsday: 29/07/2020 04:06 GMT: Hajj pilgrimage begins amid coronavirus restrictions

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29/07/2020 04:06 GMT: Hajj pilgrimage begins amid coronavirus restrictions

Hajj pilgrimage begins amid coronavirus restrictions

BBC World Service - Newsday, Hajj pilgrimage begins amid coronavirus restrictions

The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia is beginning - with drastically reduced numbers because of the coronavirus pandemic. This year only around ten thousand Saudi residents will perform the five-day ritual.

The drug lord known as El Mencho, is on a list of the world's most wanted men. Now it’s emerged that he has built his own hospital in western Jalisco state to attend to the illnesses that he apparently suffers from.

Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, has been officially nominated by his party, the National Resistance Movement, as its candidate for the 2021 presidential elections.

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