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Cannes Film Festival opens tonight. UN vote expected to call for transition in Syria. Arab Media Forum ends today with awards ceremony. Search for workers in sewage system collapse continues. Dubai's benchmark stock is best-performing globally. Wigan lose to Arsenal 4-1. Brad Pitt: Angelina Jolie 'heroic' after double mastectomy.
Cannes Film Festival opens tonight. UN vote expected to call for transition in Syria. Arab Media Forum ends today with awards ceremony. Search for workers in sewage system collapse continues. Dubai's benchmark stock is best-performing globally. Wigan lose to Arsenal 4-1. Brad Pitt: Angelina Jolie 'heroic' after double mastectomy.
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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, May the 15th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Diplomats say the UN General Assembly is expected to approve an Arab-backed resolution calling
00:16for a political transition in Syria.
00:19The vote today is also expected to strongly condemn President Bashar al-Assad's regime
00:23for escalating the use of heavy weapons.
00:26The 12th edition of the Arab Media Forum continues today with more discussion about the role
00:30of media during times of transition.
00:33The Today event concludes tonight with a ceremony honoring winners of the Arab Journalism Award.
00:38The search for two workers who were buried in an 8-meter-deep trench of a sewage system
00:43in Al Ainz al-Zaafraniya has resumed today.
00:46The workers, believed to be dead, disappeared as the sand alongside the ditch collapsed
00:50on the workers as they were fixing a pipe yesterday.
00:54Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three northeastern
00:59provinces in a bid to stem insurgency.
01:02The Boko Haram sect has intensified its attacks on security forces and government targets
01:07and now control parts of the northeastern territory around Lake Chad.
01:12Dubai's benchmark stock index jumped to the highest since October 2009 on Tuesday as property
01:17recovery and debt restructuring lured investors.
01:20The DFM General Index climbed 2.7% to 2,255.19 at close yesterday.
01:28The index has surged 23% this quarter, making it the best-performing in the period among
01:3494 tracts globally.
01:35In sport, just days after they stunned Manchester City to win the FA Cup, Wigan's relegation
01:41from the English Premier League was confirmed last night when they were hammered 4-1 by Arsenal.
01:47Entertainment and the world's top movie stars have started arriving in the south of France
01:51to attend Cannes Film Festival, which begins tonight with the screening of The Great Gatsby.
01:56Last night, jury president Steven Spielberg hosted a dinner for his fellow judges, which
02:01includes Nicole Kidman, Vidya Balan, Ang Lee and Christophe Waltz.
02:06Meanwhile, Brad Pitt has hailed his fiancée Angelina Jolie as absolutely heroic after
02:11the Oscar-winning actress revealed she had a double mastectomy to reduce her high risk
02:15of breast cancer.
02:16Pitt said, all he wanted is for her to have a long and healthy life with myself and our
02:21children.
02:22This is a happy day for our family.
02:24Finally, the weather and today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:29to 25 at night.
02:31That's all for now.
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