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Global pictures from Dec. 16 -22

Saudi desert

Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times

"I imagine it to be an ocean of people but still somehow a lonely place," said Hasan Badday before he and other Muslim pilgrims from Southern California boarded buses to Mt. Arafat in the Saudi desert. Millions of Muslims from all over the world started gathering in the plains of Arafat to mark the beginning of the grand pilgrimage known as the Hajj.

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