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DNA testing to identify Pakistan crash victims - GN Headlines

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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, December the 8th. Here are the

00:06top stories at this hour. DNA testing will be used to identify the 48

00:12charred victims of a plane crash in the mountainous north of Pakistan as the country mourned one

00:17of the worst aviation disasters in its history. The Pakistan International Airlines flight

00:23crashed into a hillside after one of its two turboprop engines failed while travelling

00:29from the city of Chitral to the capital. It burst into flames, killing everyone on board.

00:35Six of the victims have been identified through fingerprints.

00:39Israel's parliament voted to give official recognition to unauthorized colony outposts

00:44across the West Bank in legislation that provoked Palestinian outrage and was condemned as a

00:51land grab by the United Nations. The bill, introduced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's

00:57Likud party, passed 57-51 in Israel's Knesset and must be approved in two more votes to

01:05become law.

01:06Humanitarian organisations descended on Indonesia's Aceh province as the government in Jakarta

01:12promised tonnes of emergency aid. Officials raced to assess the full extent of damage

01:18from an earthquake that killed more than 100 people. Search efforts were concentrated on

01:24the town of Muredu in PD Jaya district near the epicentre of the quake.

01:30Hollywood heavyweight Samuel L Jackson led an array of big names on the red carpet on

01:35the opening night of the 13th Dubai International Film Festival at Medina Jumeirah. Jackson

01:42was honoured with a Diff Lifetime Achievement Award alongside Bollywood actress Rekha and

01:48French-Lebanese score composer Gabriel Yared.

01:52And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping

01:57to 22 degrees at night.

01:59That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be

02:03on Monday. But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com