21.   Meanwhile, a Libyan passenger jet said to be carrying Muslim pilgrims headed for Saudi Arabia on Thursday on a flight that apparently also would violate a U.N. embargo.

22.   More flights carrying pilgrims were scheduled in the coming days.

23.   No more than five people died when a boat carrying pilgrims to a religious festival sank in an Amazonian river, police said Sunday.

24.   Saudi bus operator TASECO needs the vehicles mainly to carry pilgrims from Jeddah to Mecca and Medina, DaimlerChrysler said in a statement.

25.   Saudi King Fahd has ordered Saudi planes to Kabul to carry pilgrims, the agency quoting an unidentified Foreign Ministry official.

26.   Ships carrying other pilgrims left Jiddah port on the Red Sea for home.

27.   Sudan will permit Nigerian planes carrying Muslim pilgrims to pass through its airspace, ending a dispute that had stranded scores of Nigerians in Saudi Arabia for several days.

28.   The Hindu-Muslim rioting began when a Muslim mob set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims.

29.   The Israeli army blocked a dozen tour buses outside Bethlehem carrying Christian pilgrims from Italy until Defense Minister Yitzchak Mordechai granted them permission to enter, army radio said.

30.   The move drew threats from the United States to respond strongly to the flights, but officials said American forces would not shoot down aircraft carrying pilgrims.