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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, December 19. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:07More than 1,000 people were evacuated from the last rebel-held pocket of Syria's Aleppo
00:12early today after hours of delay.
00:15More than 30 buses packed with people had waited overnight in freezing temperatures
00:19to leave Aleppo under a complex evacuation deal.
00:22The UN Security Council will vote tonight on a French-drafted resolution to quickly
00:27deploy UN observers to Aleppo, with Russia cautiously backing the measure.
00:31Zsa Zsa Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress and socialite who helped invent a new kind
00:36of fame out of multiple marriages and jaded wisdom about glamorous life, died Sunday at
00:40the age of 99.
00:41Gabor had been hospitalized repeatedly since she broke her right hip in July 2010 after
00:47a fall at her Los Angeles home.
00:48The great-aunt of Paris Hilton and a spiritual matriarch to the Kardashians and other tabloid
00:53favorites, Gabor was the original Hall of Mirror celebrity, famous just for being famous.
00:58Security forces have arrested more than 300 people during protests and lootings over the
01:02elimination of Venezuela's largest currency bill, President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday.
01:08Venezuela pulled the 100 Bolivar note last week before new bills were in circulation,
01:12creating a national cash shortage on top of a brutal economic crisis.
01:16After two days of unrest, Maduro on Saturday postponed the measure until January 2.
01:21Puerto Rico's Stephanie Del Val was crowned Miss World 2016 on Sunday, winning the top
01:27prize in the 66th edition of the pageant held this year in the United States.
01:32The first runner-up was Yaritza Miguelina Reyes Ramirez of the Dominican Republic.
01:37Indonesia's Natasha Manuela took third place.
01:39Grammy-winning singer Mark Antony and his wife announced Sunday that they are divorcing
01:43after a two-year marriage.
01:45The decision to end the marriage was made mutually by Antony, a New York-born singer
01:49of Puerto Rican roots, and Shana Dalima, a Venezuelan model.
01:52And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, with 26 degrees Celsius dropping
01:56to 17 degrees at night.
01:58That's all for now.
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