Stranded Palestinian haj pilgrims protest in Egypt
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ISMAILIA, Egypt  - Stranded Palestinian haj pilgrims protesting at Egypt's refusal to allow them to return to Gaza through a Hamas-controlled crossing, smashed furniture and windows at a shelter on Monday, a security source said.
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Egypt has sent a high-level protest to dozens of European nations expressing "astonishment and regret" at their refusal to endorse Cairo's call for a Middle East nuclear free zone at a conference last month.
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Defying warnings from Hamas, several thousand Gazans prayed outside the mosques on Friday in a Fatah-inspired protest.
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Thousands turned out for the burial of Palestinian Marxist leader George Habash in Jordan on Monday, chanting anti-Israeli slogans and vowing to continue the struggle for a Palestinian state.
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Police scuffled Wednesday with an Israeli Islamic leader and several of his followers near a disputed holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem where Muslims have been protesting excavations and repairs.
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JERUSALEM -- A fiery Islamic leader called on his fellow Israeli Arabs and Muslims around the world yesterday to rise up in protest of Israeli construction work near a holy site in Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 14 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was stranded for much of Thursday in the Egyptian Sinai after Israel barred him from entering the Gaza Strip with millions of dollars in cash, a standoff that prompted armed demonstrations by his Hamas movement and gunfire as his convoy crossed the border hours later without the money....
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian leaders headed to the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Tuesday for what officials depicted as a last-ditch effort to end factional fighting and a crippling Western embargo.
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Construction work resumed Sunday on a ramp leading to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem, despite objections from the Muslim world and two days of violent Palestinian protest.
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Thousands turn out in the Gaza Strip to protest against Hamas, despite a ban on public gatherings.
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RAFAH, Egypt  - Hundreds of Palestinian protesters stormed the Rafah border crossing with Egypt from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to protest against an Israeli blockade, and an Egyptian police officer was shot, security and border sources said.
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MUZDALIFA, Saudi Arabia  - Millions of Muslim pilgrims moved to Muzdalifa on Tuesday evening after spending the afternoon on the plain of Arafat east of Mecca at the peak of the annual haj pilgrimage.
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Thousands of African pilgrims heading for the annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, are stranded.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 9 -- Palestinians clashed with Israeli police Friday at one of this city's holiest sites and demonstrated across the West Bank to protest a construction project Israel has begun here near a pair of venerated mosques.
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CAIRO -- About 1,000 people gathered downtown yesterday, many with their mouths covered by yellow stickers reading ''Enough,&quot; to protest the possibility that President Hosni Mubarak might run for a fifth term or that his son, Gamal, might succeed him.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 14--Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was stranded Thursday in the Egyptian Sinai after Israel barred him from entering the Gaza Strip with millions of dollars in cash, prompting gunmen from his Hamas movement to open fire on the border crossing in a show of force.
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Iraqis took to the streets of Shi'ite towns and cities on Saturday to protest over the detention by U.S. troops of the eldest son of Abdul-Aziz al- Hakim, one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders.