THOUSANDS PROTEST OVER JERUSALEM SHRINE

Thousands of Palestinian Muslims prayed in the streets near Jerusalem’s most contested holy site Tuesday, heeding a call by clergy to not enter the shrine despite Israel’s seeming capitulation when it removed metal detectors it installed there a week earlier.

Muslim leaders said they would call off the protests only once they made sure Israel had restored the situation to what it was before the latest crisis.

Some Muslim officials alleged that Israel used the absence of Muslim clerics from the walled compound in the past week of protests to install new security cameras.

EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Solar panels are arranged in the shape of pandas at the Datong Panda Power Plant in Datong, Shanxi Province of China. The plant, set to open Aug. 10, has about 1,500 acres of solar panels.