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CAIRO: Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly ordered 16 tourism companies stripped of their licences and referred their managers to the public prosecutor on Saturday over illegal pilgrimages to Makkah, the cabinet said. The order came after countries whose citizens performed this year’s Haj reported more than 1,100 deaths, many attributed to the oven-like summer heat in Saudi Arabia. A tally …

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