21.   Saudi Arabia warned it could jail and fine anyone harboring or employing Moslem pilgrims who failed to return to their home countries after the annual pilgrimage ended last month.

22.   Some two million Moslem pilgrims attended Friday prayers in the Islamic holy city of Mecca at the start of the annual pilgrimage.

23.   The camps of Moslem pilgrims from Malaysia and Indonesia were also destroyed by the blaze, a member of the Indian delegation said.

24.   The first cases of cholera in Dagestan this year were those of Moslem pilgrims returning from the annual haj to Saudi Arabia.

25.   The first victims of cholera in Daghestan were Moslem pilgrims returning from the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, Russian press reports said.

26.   The last of around one million Moslem pilgrims flew into Saudi Arabia on Wednesday ahead of a midnight deadline, pilgrims and Saudi officials said.