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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, March 6. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08A man will face the death squad after a UAE court convicted him today of luring his lover's
00:14husband to a car, battering him with a brick and mowing him down.
00:19The man and his married mistress, both from Comoros Islands, were accused of killing the
00:23husband before burning him on October 15, 2016.
00:28A man was arrested and accused of stealing Frances McDormand's Oscars trophy after the
00:33Academy Awards on Sunday night, Los Angeles police said.
00:37Terry Bryant, 47, was arrested on suspicion of felony grand theft.
00:42Video captured appears to show Bryant walking with a statuette out of the Governor's Ball,
00:46the Oscars' after-party, where police say he took it.
00:50When he was confronted, Bryant handed back the statuette without a fight, police said.
00:55A former Russian double agent convicted in Moscow of betraying dozens of agents to British
01:00intelligence was critically ill in hospital today.
01:03Sergei Skripal was allegedly exposed to an unidentified substance in southern England,
01:09sources said.
01:11He was found unconscious on a bench in a shopping centre on Sunday in the English city of Salisbury.
01:17Paris Saint-Germain will attempt to overturn a 3-1 deficit when they host Real Madrid in
01:22their heavyweight Champions League last-16 second leg tonight.
01:27But PSG will be without the injured Neymar for the match, which kicks off at 11.45pm
01:32UAE time.
01:33The world's most expensive player is recovering from a foot operation in Brazil.
01:38And finally, the weather.
01:39Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night.
01:44That's all for now.
01:45Thanks for watching.
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