With AI and more shade, Saudi set for a searing hajj
Sunday, 1 June 2025 () Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP) May 29, 2025
With artificial intelligence, more shade and misting machines, Saudi authorities are preparing to welcome more than a million hajj pilgrims amid punishing summer heat that has a deadly history in the holy city of Mecca. Saudi Arabia's hajj minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah told AFP on Thursday that efforts to mitigate the searing desert heat remained a top focus among authorities and organisers ahea
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