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  2. Iftar Cannon - Wikipedia

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    Dubai Police fire the Iftar Cannon by Burj Khalifa. Though the tradition is practiced today in most parts of the Arab world, the blast of the cannon was first used to inform the entire city of the time of Iftar, before the invention of accurate clocks and mass media. The cannon is first fired to herald the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan ...

  3. Iftar - Wikipedia

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    Iftar (Arabic: إفطار, romanized: ifṭār) is the fast-breaking evening meal of Muslims in Ramadan at the time of adhan (call to prayer) of the Maghrib prayer.. This is their second meal of the day; the daily fast during Ramadan begins immediately after the pre-dawn meal of suhur and continues during the daylight hours, ending with sunset with the evening meal of iftar.

  4. Date and time notation in Bahrain - Wikipedia

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    In Bahrain, both the Gregorian and Islamic calendars are used in government transactions. Short dates are written in "Day/month/year" from; when writing in Arabic and English: For Gregorian calendar: ١٦/١٢/٢٠١٣ميلادي or 16/12/2013. For Islamic calendar: ١٠/١/١٤٣٤هجري

  5. Ramadan - Wikipedia

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    Over time, the practice of iftar has evolved into banquets that may accommodate hundreds or even thousands of diners. [76] The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the largest mosque in the UAE, feeds up to thirty thousand people every night. [77] Some twelve thousand people attend iftar at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad. [citation needed]

  6. Eid al-Fitr - Wikipedia

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    It is a time for people to attend prayer services, put on their best clothes (referred to as bayramlık, often purchased just for the occasion), visit all their loved ones (such as relatives, neighbors, and friends), and pay their respects to the deceased with organised visits to cemeteries.

  7. Military helicopter makes emergency landing on California ...

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    Flames could be seen where a military helicopter made an emergency landing at Camp Pendleton on Friday, causing police to warn drivers of potential traffic delays along Interstate 5. All four crew ...

  8. Ramadan (month) - Wikipedia

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    An iftar meal. Many Muslims insist on the local physical sighting of the moon to mark the beginning of Ramadan, but others use the calculated time of the new moon or the Saudi Arabian declaration to determine the start of the month. Since the new moon is not in the same state at the same time globally, the beginning and ending dates of Ramadan ...

  9. RFK Jr reviewing resumes for top Trump health jobs, sources say

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    NEW YORK (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the former independent presidential candidate, is reviewing candidate resumes for the top jobs at the U.S. government's health agencies in Donald Trump's ...