Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Moonlight wins Oscar for Best Picture. Father of commando killed in a Special Operations raid Yemen refused to meet with President Donald Trump on the day his son's body was returned home. Deputy Fatah leader Mahmoud Al Aloul says Fatah will never recognise Israel as a Jewish state. Jose Mourinho and Manchester United victorious over Southampton.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, February 27. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour. The father of the commando killed in a special operations raid in Yemen
00:12last month said in an interview published this weekend that he had refused to meet with
00:17President Donald Trump on the day his son's body was returned home. Don't hide behind
00:21my son's death to prevent an investigation. The father, William Owens, said, referring
00:26to Chief Petty Officer William Owens, a member of the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team 6.
00:31Fatah will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Mahmoud Al-Allul, a top Palestinian
00:37official who was recently selected as deputy Fatah leader, told Gulf News. In an exclusive
00:43interview, Al-Allul discussed the most pressing issues facing the Palestinian people in 2017,
00:49including the Trump administration, national reconciliation with Hamas, security coordination
00:55with Israel, and making the Palestinian cause a priority in the Arab world again.
01:00Jose Mourinho has challenged his Manchester United stars to use their dramatic League
01:06Cup final win against Southampton as a springboard to bigger prizes. Mourinho lifted the first
01:12major trophy of his United reign after Zlatan Ibrahimovic's late header clinched a 3-2 victory
01:19at Wembley. He is the first United manager to win a major competition in his maiden season
01:24at Old Trafford.
01:26The coming-of-age drama Moonlight is the winner of the Best Picture Academy Award. The film
01:31won after the end of the awards ceremony was plunged into chaos after La La Land was mistakenly
01:36announced as the Best Picture winner. Presenter Warren Beatty says he paused so long before
01:42the name was read because the envelope read Emma Stone, La La Land. Actress Faye Dunaway
01:47read the name La La Land after chiding Beatty for taking so long to read the winner.
01:53And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 23 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:58to 14 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching, and as always, you can
02:03get the latest news at gulfnews.com.