1.   Also under consideration is whether to allow a cruise ship to bring in pilgrims from the United States.

2.   Afghan officials, aided by planes sent from Britain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, scrambled Monday to bring would-be pilgrims to the annual pilgrimage in Mecca.

3.   Buses bringing pilgrims were almost the only traffic in Sarajevo.

4.   Bus driver Balbir Singh, who had brought pilgrims to Pahalgam, told The Associated Press.

5.   Government buses brought the pilgrims, many of them women and elderly, to the border.

6.   Meanwhile, Afghan officials, aided by planes sent from Britain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, scrambled Monday to bring would-be pilgrims to the annual pilgrimage in Mecca.

7.   One ship brought pilgrims carrying the image of the Goddess Matsu, a deity worshipped by some in Taiwan and southeastern China as the patron of fishermen.

8.   Special trains and buses were laid on to bring in pilgrims, and local artisans labored over an altar in the shape of a boat.

9.   The Interior Ministry proposed to Nigeria that the illegal workers be flown back on special direct flights bringing pilgrims to Israel.

10.   The news agency said the first helicopter flight would bring pilgrims to Mosul, a city in northern Iraq.