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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, February the 16th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12The Indian government has decided to impose President's rule in Delhi following the
00:15resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
00:19The assembly will now be kept in suspended animation.
00:22The Aam Aadmi Party has announced a major campaign to clean up the corrupt system even
00:27as Kejriwal clarified he had not quit with an eye on the general elections.
00:32William Bill Duff, who served as Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum's trusted financial
00:37expert during the early development of Dubai, passed away on Friday.
00:42Duff, 92, died of natural causes at his residence in Jumeirah.
00:46An Oxford-educated classical Arabic speaker, Duff set up the Dubai Department of Finance,
00:52the Dubai Customs and also the Dubai Electricity Company, which is now the Dubai Water and
00:58Electricity Authority.
01:00Prime Minister Tamim Salaam has unveiled a compromise government in Lebanon.
01:05The move caps 10 months of political wrangling during which the war in Syria heightened sectarian
01:11tensions.
01:12The 24-member government, including only one woman, brings together the Hezbollah and its
01:17allies with the Sunni-led bloc of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
01:22The UK and France have blamed the Syrian government for the collapse of peace talks with the opposition
01:27in Geneva.
01:28UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi apologised to the Syrian people last night for the failure
01:33of the negotiations.
01:35Iraq's radical cleric, Muqtada Sadr, has announced he is retiring from political life in a handwritten
01:41note posted on his website.
01:43The statement said he would not hold future government positions or have any representatives
01:48in Parliament from his militia group, the Mahdi Army.
01:53In sport, a dogged 158-run stand by Brendan McCallum and BJ Watling kept New Zealand alive
02:00in the second test against India today.
02:02McCallum and Watling ensured India will have to bat again as they wiped out the 246-run
02:08first innings deficit to reach 252-5 at Stumps on the third day.
02:14Manchester City pared into the FA Cup quarter-finals, overcoming Premier League title rival Chelsea
02:202-0 to maintain its quadruple chase last night.
02:24Stevan Jovetic and Sameer Nasri provided the goals to avenge a 1-0 league loss this month.
02:31And finally, the weather.
02:32Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 16 degrees at night.
02:38That's all for now.
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