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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, April 16. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:11Angry relatives of passengers who drowned in a ferry sinking snubbed South Korea's president
00:16on the disaster's anniversary today, even as she pledged to salvage the ship.
00:20There were tears and grief mixed with raw fury as black-clad relatives and their supporters
00:25moaned the 304 victims of the ferry civil, most of whom were high school students.
00:31The UN peace envoy to Yemen, Jamal Ben Omar, has resigned, the UN has said. The Moroccan
00:36diplomat had been UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy for Yemen since 2012.
00:42The move came after Egypt announced it would consider taking part in large-scale military
00:46exercises with Saudi Arabia.
00:49Attempting to pick holes in the prosecution case against Bollywood actor Salman Khan in
00:53the 2002 road accident, the actor's counsel said after the accident, the actor's blood
00:58samples were tampered with and his medical examination was done in just five minutes.
01:03The medical case paper showed that Khan was brought to Sir JJ Hospital at 2.25 pm and
01:08discharged at 2.30 pm on September 28, 2002, according to the defense counsel.
01:14Supermodel Gisele Bundchen has bid adieu to the catwalk, strutting her stuff at an emotionally
01:19charged show in Sao Paulo that she said will be her last stroll down a runway in a 20-year
01:24career. The 34-year-old Brazilian mother of two, who is married to NFL quarterback Tom
01:30Brady, has said she wants to spend more time with her family but has also vowed to continue
01:35working in the industry.
01:36As the world's highest-paid model, according to a 2014 ranking by Forbes, Bundchen is the
01:42face of Chanel, Carolina Herrera, Pantene and other top brands.
01:46And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 35 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:50to 26 degrees at night.
01:53That's all for now. Thanks for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday,
01:56but you can always get the latest news on gulfnews.com.