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Ellen DeGeneres awarded highest US civilian honour - GN Headlines

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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, November 23.

00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:09Colombia's government and FARC guerrillas will sign a new peace accord on Thursday after

00:16a previous agreement to end their half-century-old war was defeated in a referendum, both parties

00:22said.

00:23The new revised accord will be submitted to Congress for approval rather than put to another

00:29Last month, voters taking part in that referendum surprisingly snubbed the first accord.

00:36Critics said it went too easy on the rebels, who have been waging what is now Latin America's

00:41last major insurgency.

00:45The first 12-goal game in 25 Champions League seasons took the spotlight from Real Madrid

00:51and Juventus, advancing to the round of 16.

00:55It ended an astonishing Borussia Dortmund 8, Legia Warsaw 4, defeating the Champions

01:01League previous best set by Monaco's A3 win over Deportivo La Coruna in November 2003.

01:09The record-breaking goal in stoppage time was an own goal forced by Germany forward

01:15Marco Reus, who scored twice in his comeback match after six months sidelined by injury.

01:22Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has been awarded the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the

01:28highest civilian honor in the United States.

01:32President Barack Obama awarded medals to 21 key figures.

01:36Other recipients included Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda for philanthropic

01:43work, former basketball players Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, actors Tom Hanks,

01:50Robert De Niro and Robert Redford, musicians Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross, Native American

01:57community leader Eloise Cobell, and NASA moon-landing computer scientist Margaret H. Hamilton were

02:04also awarded medals.

02:08And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:12to 20 degrees at night.

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