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Pervez Musharraf heads to Pakistan. Dubai goes dark for Earth Hour. Lebanon situation "deteriorating" after Prime Minister resigns. Chemical and nuclear experts dispatch to house where Russian exile was found dead. Cyprus waits for bailout. Tiger Woods ready to regain No. 1 post. Venus Williams withdraws from Miami tennis tournaments. Kristen Stewart, One Direction slimed with awards at Kids' Choice ceremony.
Pervez Musharraf heads to Pakistan. Dubai goes dark for Earth Hour. Lebanon situation "deteriorating" after Prime Minister resigns. Chemical and nuclear experts dispatch to house where Russian exile was found dead. Cyprus waits for bailout. Tiger Woods ready to regain No. 1 post. Venus Williams withdraws from Miami tennis tournaments. Kristen Stewart, One Direction slimed with awards at Kids' Choice ceremony.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, March the 24th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:10Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is en route to his homeland after more than
00:15four years in self-exile. Musharraf's flight to Karachi left Dubai on Sunday carrying supporters
00:20who hope the ex-general can make a political comeback in the May parliamentary elections.
00:25Pakistani Taliban has vowed to kill him. Dubai has saved 200,000 kilowatts and cut 120 tons
00:32of carbon emissions by participating in the Earth Hour on Saturday night.
00:36European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton is voicing concern over the deteriorating
00:41situation in Lebanon following the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Mekati. The politically
00:46volatile country is struggling to cope with the spillover of violence and a wave of refugees
00:50from the two-year-old civil war in Syria.
00:53Experts in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear emergencies have been deployed
00:58to the British property where Russian exile Boris Berezovsky was found dead, police said.
01:03Berezovsky, a Russian oligarch and longtime critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin,
01:08was found dead at his home on Saturday.
01:10Cyprus still has not secured the bailout it needs to hold off imminent bankruptcy. Its
01:15leaders are in Brussels for talks with EU and IMF representatives. Cyprus needs 10 billion
01:20euros in loans by Monday.
01:21Golf and Tiger Woods look set to regain the world No. 1 ranking when he fired a 6-under-par
01:2666 on Saturday to seize a two-shot lead after the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
01:32Three-time Miami champion Venus Williams has withdrawn from the WTA and ATP Masters Miami
01:37Hard Court Tournament with a lower back injury.
01:40Green slime spewed furiously at the Kids' Choice Awards on Saturday, where Twilight
01:44Saga star Kirsten Stewart and British boy band One Direction won two awards each.
01:49And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 29 degrees Celsius falling to 18 degrees
01:53at night.
01:54That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news
01:57at golfnews.com.