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How Mecca has changed over the past 100 years
Al Jazeera takes you on a virtual tour of Islam’s holiest site – the Grand Mosque of Mecca.
US Capitol rioter who ‘posed for selfies’ in Senate heads to jail
Paul Allard Hodgkins, who breached the US Senate chamber carrying a Trump flag, receives an eight-month prison term.
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