Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Wisconsin loss puts Trump on notice. Libya's self-declared government steps down. Yemen's former prime minister rejects his sacking by the president. 80th Masters. Mumbai Police registers a case against Rahul Raj Singh. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, April 6. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:09Texas Senator Ted Cruz scored a commanding victory over Donald Trump in Wisconsin's
00:14presidential primary on Tuesday.
00:17The win puts the Republican frontrunner on notice that his march to the nomination is
00:22not a done deal.
00:24Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton also crashed to defeat against Senator Bernie Sanders.
00:30Sanders has now won six of the last seven Democratic contests and can bolster his claim
00:35to be a viable alternative to the former Secretary of State.
00:40Libya's self-declared government said it was stepping down less than a week after the arrival
00:45of a UN-backed national unity government in Tripoli. The announcement marks a step forward
00:51for a UN-brokered unity government whose leaders are seeking to establish authority
00:57over Libya after years of factional power struggles.
01:01Yemen's former prime minister has rejected his sacking by the president, calling the
01:05move a coup and an affront to the constitution. In a statement on Tuesday night, Khalid Baha
01:11said President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi's decision last weekend undermined state authority. Hadi
01:19fired Baha over what he called shortcomings in the government's performance and appointed
01:24a successor while naming Baha a presidential adviser.
01:29In sport, top-ranked Jason Day, defending champion Jordan Spieth and career Grand Slam
01:34seeker Rory McIlroy have sparked an exceptional level of excitement for the 80th Masters.
01:40A field of 89 top golfers will tee off Thursday morning at Augusta National in quest of the
01:46green jacket. But only one will slide their arms inside the sleeves come Sunday.
01:53Mumbai police have registered a case against actor-producer Rahul Raj Singh for abetting
01:58the suicide of TV actress Pratyusha Banerjee. The case follows a statement from Pratyusha's
02:04mother Shoma Banerjee. Among other things, she accused Singh of assaulting Pratyusha.
02:10Singh's lawyers said they would challenge the case in the Mumbai High Court.
02:15And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:19to 22 degrees at night.
02:21That's all for now. Thanks for watching. As always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com