61.   President Bashar al-Assad attended the prayers.

62.   Rao was to attend the prayers but cancelled the trip.

63.   Saudi security had also erected barricades outside nearby Nimra mosque where Saudi officials and others attended prayers.

64.   Several Chinese and Hong Kong officials were among the hundreds of monks and devotees who attended the prayer session Sunday.

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

66.   Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been attending Friday prayers during the dawn-to-dusk fasting month of Ramadan.

67.   The funeral prayers were attended by leaders of political parties and religious groups.