Saudi Arabia will begin allowing foreigners to invest in publicly-traded companies owning real estate in the holy cities of Makkah and Madinah for the first time. The move is part of the kingdom's efforts to attract more overseas...

More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced extreme high temperatures, Saudi authorities announced Sunday. (Scripps News)

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Bushra Shah, a 35-year-old Pakistani, says she is realising a childhood dream by making the great pilgrimage to Mecca, and under new rules she's doing it without a male "guardian (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

CLEAN : Muslim pilgrims throng Mecca for hajj

VOICED : Muslim pilgrims flood Mecca for hajj

CLEAN : Tight security measure in Mecca for Hajj

Saudi security forces monitor the holy sites in Mecca during the annual hajj pilgrimage with cameras distributed in main areas of the holy city (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The first batch of pilgrims performing the annual hajj have arrived at one of the gathering points in the Muslim holy city of Mecca before heading to the holy site (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

More than a million Muslims from around the world are converging on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage ahead of the main rituals next week as Saudi authorities mobilise to prevent incidents

FILE IMAGES of Muslims worshippers performing prayers around the Kaaba Islam's holiest shrine at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Worshippers circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand mosque in the holy Saudi city of Mecca, on the first day of Eid al-Adha, after the "stoning of the devil", the last major ritual of this year's hajj under tight...

Saudi Health Minister Tawfig bin Fawzan al-Rabiah says not one case of coronavirus infection had yet been reported amid Muslim pilgrims attending this year's downsized hajj (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Hajj pilgrims stream out of the camps of Mina in the holy city of Mecca (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Pilgrims continue to arrive in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca for the second downsized hajj staged during the coronavirus pandemic, circling Islam's holiest site in masks and on distanced paths (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The first group of pilgrims arrive at the Grande Mosque of Mecca to perform the welcoming Tawaf <br/>
(Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The first Muslim pilgrims arrive in Mecca ahead of the official start of the hajj (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

The holy sites of Mecca, Mount Arafat and Mina, are getting ready to welcome Muslim pilgrims for the annual hajj pilgrimage in the holy city, with just 60,000 vaccinated Saudi residents allowed to take part this year because of the...

Saudi Arabia has for a second consecutive year confined the annual hajj to a limited number of residents, excluding the millions of foreigners who usually flock to Mecca for the rite that every able-bodied Muslim is obliged to perform at...

CLEAN : Saudi Arabia holds military parade ahead of tightly secured hajj

CLEAN : Saudi set for hajj despite MERS virus fear

CLEAN: Tight security, modern transport await hajj pilgrims

Time-lapse of pilgrims taking part in the annual hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. Saudi Arabia announces it would hold a "very limited" hajj this year owing to the coronavirus pandemic, with pilgrims already in the kingdom allowed to take part...

For this year's hajj, the second to be staged under the shadow of coronavirus pandemic, Saudi authorities have rolled out electronic "hajj cards" allowing contactless access to religious sites, accommodation and transport (Footage by...