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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, October the 7th.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Special near-field communication-enabled SIM cards that are required to make public transport
00:16payments through mobile phones are now available to the public.
00:20The NFC payment system is now live.
00:23Residents who have got the NFC SIM cards from Etisalat and Do can use the facility, a Roads
00:28and Transport Authority official said.
00:31Four Saudi women have made history by becoming the first women to be allowed to practice
00:35law in the Kingdom's courts.
00:38The four were given the licenses that allowed them to change their status from legal consultants
00:43to attorneys.
00:45Security forces and supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi clashed in Cairo and
00:50other cities, leaving at least 51 dead as protests against the military erupted on the
00:5640th anniversary of the October war with Israel.
00:59At least 268 people were injured, the health ministry said.
01:04A bomb that exploded near a polio vaccination team in Peshawar this morning killed at least
01:09two people and possibly as many as six.
01:12The blast appeared to target police who were assigned to protect the vaccination team.
01:17A typhoon slammed into southeastern China today with powerful winds and heavy rains
01:22that killed two people, cut power, cancelled flights and suspended train services.
01:28More than half a million people have been evacuated.
01:31Al-Habtoor Group has revealed Al-Habtoor City, a residential and hospitality development
01:37at a value of 11 billion dirhams.
01:40The development will comprise three luxury hotels, three luxury residential towers, a
01:45tennis academy and a theatre.
01:48Mumbai Indians' Dwayne Smith and Harbhajan Singh won the Man of the Series and Man of
01:53the Match awards, respectively, as their team won the Champions League 2020 title at the
01:59Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.
02:01Mumbai beat Rajasthan Royals by 33 runs to earn a double, having won the IPL six title
02:07earlier this year.
02:09And finally the weather.
02:10The daytime temperature will be 38 degrees Celsius, falling to 25 at night.
02:15That's all for now.
02:16Thank you for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com