Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Emirates offers EK521 passengers Dh26,000 compensation. Syrian doctors accuses US of repeated atrocities. Saudi Arabia will ease restrictions on foreign investments. Dubai Parks and Resorts opens its gates October 31. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, August 11. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08Emirates Airline has offered 26,000 dirhams in compensation to passengers of EK521, which
00:13was involved in an operational incident while landing in Dubai last week, passengers told
00:18Gulf News. There were 300 passengers and crew members aboard the flight from Tiruvananthapuram
00:23in India to Dubai. The incident occurred on August 3.
00:27Syrian doctors in opposition districts of Aleppo have accused the United States of
00:31inaction in the face of repeated atrocities in the devastated city. In a heart-wrenching
00:35letter addressed to US President Barack Obama, 15 of the 35 doctors in eastern neighborhoods
00:41of Syria's second city warned the situation would be desperate for civilians if regime
00:46forces reimpose a siege.
00:48Saudi Arabia will ease restrictions on foreign investment in its securities markets next
00:52month, sooner than previously indicated, in an effort to attract more institutional
00:57money into its bores. It will open stock markets wider to foreigners on September 4. With oil
01:02prices sagging and the economy slowing, Saudi authorities are keen to attract more foreign
01:06capital into the kingdom.
01:08Dubai Parkston Resorts announced that it will open its gates to the public on October 31.
01:13The region's largest theme park destination will comprise three distinct theme parks – Bollywood
01:18Parks Dubai, Motiongate Dubai and Legoland Dubai, as well as Legoland Water Park. There
01:23will be a partial opening for Motiongate Dubai, which features rides and attractions by three
01:28Hollywood film studios, Sony Pictures Studios, DreamWorks Animations and Lionsgate. The
01:33other parks will open fully. It will also include Riverland Dubai, a retail, dining
01:39and entertainment area, along with the Lapita Hotel, a Polynesian-themed family resort.
01:44It's located on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi Highway, near the Ghantoud exit.
01:48And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:53to 33 degrees at night.
01:55That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be
01:58on Sunday. But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com