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00:00Good day and welcome to the Golf News Update for Thursday, October the 22nd.
00:09Here are your top stories at this hour.
00:11The Emirates Identity Authority has warned private sector companies and commercial outlets
00:16against misusing Emirates ID cards of their customers.
00:20Such outlets cannot demand ID cards for purposes of rewards, discounts or sales points and
00:25should not use the ID cards against services provided, the authority said.
00:29Such practices endanger the confidentiality of the customer's personal data stored in
00:33the cards, it said.
00:35Sharjah International Airport opened a new 500 million dirham runway that is capable
00:39of handling the world's largest aircraft.
00:42His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler
00:47of Sharjah and Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan al-Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy
00:52Ruler of Sharjah, inaugurated the new runway.
00:54The runway, with a length of just over four kilometres, is capable of handling the Airbus
00:58A380 and the Boeing 747-800.
01:02A bomb claimed by an Islamist group exploded outside the gates of Cairo University Wednesday,
01:07wounding at least nine people.
01:09Ajnad Misa, a militant group that has killed several policemen in Cairo bombings, claimed
01:14responsibility for the attack.
01:16Airstrikes by US-led forces have so far killed 32 civilians during a month-long campaign
01:21in Syria, a monitoring group said.
01:24The coalition has also killed 553 Islamist fighters.
01:29The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 464 of the deaths were militants from Daesh.
01:34A gunman whose name was on a terror watchlist killed a soldier and attempted to storm Canada's
01:39parliament Wednesday before the assembly's sergeant-at-arm shot him dead.
01:44The attack, the second this week, targeting Canadian military personnel, came as Canadian
01:48jets were to join the US-led bombing campaign against Daesh militants in Iraq.
01:53The suspect was identified as 32-year-old Michael Zeehaf Bibiou and had a record for
01:58drug charges.
02:00The star-studded premiere of Farah Khan's Happy New Year was held in Dubai on Wednesday.
02:05I cannot wait to watch the film with the entire crew before its first screening in Dubai,
02:10said the star of the film, Shahrukh Khan.
02:12Other co-stars present for the premiere included Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Patman
02:17Irani, Sona Sood and Vivan Shah.
02:20And finally, the weather.
02:21Today's high across the UAE will be 33 degrees Celsius, dropping to 24 degrees at night.
02:27That's all for now.
02:29We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest news on
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