Residents attend Friday prayers at Shi'ite's Imam Hussein shrine in Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad September 5, 2008. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and sexual relation from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
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