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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, April 15. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:11A 14-year-old boy has died after being knocked down while riding his bike in the same place
00:16where his mother was also run over and killed three years ago. The accident happened on
00:20March 30 on Abu Hale Street in Dubai. The boy was in hospital for 12 days and died of
00:25his injuries on Friday, according to Salah Boufaroushah, head of Dubai Traffic Public
00:30Prosecution.
00:31The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority will deploy charging stations for electric
00:35vehicles in support of the Smart Dubai initiative. Syed Altair, Managing Director and CEO of
00:40Diva, announced this at the opening of Vetex 2014. Work on the project will start in the
00:46second quarter of 2014 and is expected to be completed within a year.
00:51The UN Security Council meets privately today to view photographs of those who were killed
00:56and tortured in Syria. The presentation is part of a process of documenting evidence
01:01of Syrian war crimes in the hope of eventually referring the perpetrators to the International
01:06Criminal Court.
01:07US President Barack Obama urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday to press pro-Moscow
01:13groups to lay down their arms in Ukraine. Putin denied involvement with the pro-Russian
01:17insurgents and urged Obama to do everything possible to avoid the use of force and a bloodbath.
01:23A mini-submarine hunting for Malaysian jet MH370 is set for a second sweep of the remote
01:29Indian Ocean seabed. The unmanned sub aborted its first search when it encountered water
01:34deeper than its operating limits.
01:37The opening ceremony for cricket's Indian Premier League, which begins its UAE leg tomorrow,
01:41takes place tonight at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. Among those taking part in the
01:45extravaganza is Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who has tweeted that he was up
01:49all night rehearsing his performance.
01:52Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, is ending his 20-month retirement
01:57to swim in competition later this month. The 18-time gold medalist, who is 28 years old,
02:03will compete from April 24 in Arizona.
02:07And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 37 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:11to 26 degrees at night.