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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, May the 21st. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:11Twin car bombings in central Nigeria killed at least 118 people and brought entire buildings
00:16down on Tuesday in the latest affront to the government's internationally backed security
00:21crackdown. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the attack in the central city of
00:25Jos, calling it a tragic assault on human freedom.
00:30Kuwait's ruler will travel to Tehran in two weeks, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said,
00:34signaling a further thaw between the Islamic Republic and Gulf Cooperation Council states.
00:39Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah will visit Iran on May 31st at the invitation of Iranian
00:44President Hassan Rouhani. It will be the first time Sheikh Sabah will visit Iran since becoming
00:49Kuwait's emir in 2006.
00:52Libya will hold parliamentary elections on June 25th, the election commission has said,
00:56amid fears the country is descending into a civil war. The government accuses renegade
01:00General Khalifa Haftar of planning a coup, a charge he denies. Fighters allied with General
01:06Haftar attacked the parliamentary building in the capital Tripoli on Sunday.
01:10Thailand's army chief has summoned leaders of rival political groups and parties, election
01:15commission members and senators to a meeting today, a day after he declared martial law
01:20to discuss a way out of the country's political turmoil. The military has denied that Tuesday's
01:25surprise intervention amounted to a coup.
01:28In sport, Kolkata Knight Riders pushed their claims for a playoff berth when they won their
01:32fifth match in a row, beating the fancy Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in the Indian
01:37Premier League at the Eden Gardens last night. In today's only game, Kings XI Punjab take
01:42on Mumbai Indians at Mohali in Chandigarh.
01:45And finally, the weather. The daytime temperature will be 40 degrees Celsius, falling to 24
01:49tonight.
01:50That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news
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