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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, May 10. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:09Incendiary Philippine politician Rodrigo Duterte has vowed a relentless crackdown on crime
00:15after securing a landslide presidential victory. The 71-year-old firebrand's main rivals conceded
00:21defeat after an unofficial tally showed Duterte had an insurmountable lead in Monday's election
00:28of 6.1 million votes. Duterte, the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao, captivated
00:34Filipinos with vows of brutal but quick solutions to crime and poverty.
00:39Emirates Airline made a 7.1 billion dirhams record profit for the full financial year
00:44ending March 31, up 56 percent compared to last year. While revenues for the carrier
00:51fell 4 percent to 85 billion dirhams, the group made a 8.2 billion dirhams overall profit
00:57compared to 5.5 billion dirhams a year earlier. Emirates saved 9 billion dirhams from low
01:04oil prices with fuel bill accounting for 26 percent of the operating costs.
01:30Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have pulled another fast one on celebrity baby watchers. They
01:35celebrated the birth of their second child two weeks ago after announcing the news of
01:40Eva's pregnancy less than a month ago. The baby, named Amanda Leigh Gosling, was born
01:45on April 29.
01:48A second weekend has been added to the Classic Rock Festival in California, starring The
01:52Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney, in October. Festival organisers for Desert
01:58Trip said that The Icons, along with Neil Young, Roger Waters and The Who, will perform
02:04from October 14 to 16.
02:07And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:12to 26 degrees at night.
02:13That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
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