Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Iraq's forces resume advance on Daesh bastion of Mosul. Lebanon's parliament poised to elect former general Michel Aoun. Eight suspected terrorists killed in gunfight in Bhopal. Hillary Clinton vows she will not be “knocked off course”. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars sued by funk group Collage. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Monday, October 31. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:09Iraq's forces resumed their advance on the Daesh bastion of Mosul today, aiming to position
00:15themselves a few hundred meters from the Iraqi city's eastern limits. A senior officer with
00:20the elite counter-terrorism service said only two villages remained on the road to Mosul.
00:26The massive offensive to retake Mosul began exactly two weeks ago.
00:31Lebanon's parliament is poised to elect former General Michel Aoun as president today after
00:36a dramatic shift of alliances ended two years of political stalemate. A majority of parliamentarians
00:42from across Lebanon's deeply divided political scene are set to vote for the 81-year-old
00:47Christian leader.
00:49Eight suspected terrorists of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India, who escaped from
00:55a jail in the central Indian city of Bhopal, have been killed in a gunfight. Police said
01:00today all eight were killed in crossfire on the outskirts of the city.
01:05Hillary Clinton enters the final full week of the presidential race on the defence once
01:10again over her use of a private email system. But she vowed over the weekend that she would
01:16not be knocked off course in the election's final days.
01:20Meanwhile, a newly emboldened Donald Trump is seizing on the discovery of the trove of
01:24new emails that may be pertinent to the FBI's investigation.
01:30Singer Bruno Mars and producer Mark Ronson have been sued by funk group Collage, who
01:35alleged that the global hit Uptown Funk has been ripped off the band's 1983 single Young
01:41Girls.
01:42Mars and Ronson admitted in interviews to being inspired by the 80s Minneapolis and
01:47electro-funk scenes that Collage belonged to. Collage are seeking unspecified damages
01:52and profits.
01:54And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 33 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:59to 26 degrees at night.
02:01That's all for now. Thanks for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
02:05gulfnews.com