MINA, SAUDI ARABIA (AFP) – Thousands of pilgrims cast pebbles in the “stoning of the devil” ritual marking the start of the Aidiladha holiday yesterday, as a haj pilgrimage that drew 900,000 visitors began winding down. Enormous crowds of white-robed worshippers thronged Mina, near Makkah in western Saudi Arabia, for the stoning ritual where each
