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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, May the 21st.
00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10A half-mile-wide tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs last night,
00:14killing at least 91 people and flattening entire neighborhoods.
00:17The dead included 20 children in an elementary school, which took a direct blow.
00:21The storm laid waste to scores of buildings and more,
00:24where homes were crushed into piles of broken wood.
00:27Well-wishers in the UAE have opened their wallets to help Afrah Ibrahim,
00:31the 10-month-old baby who risks losing her sight unless she has surgery immediately.
00:35Doctors at Tawam Hospital say Afrah has retinoblastoma,
00:38a rapidly developing cancer, in 70% of her left eye.
00:42One donor said the story of baby Afrah, published in Gulf News,
00:45touched his heart and he felt that he should give her family a helping hand.
00:49Iran's Guardian Council is expected to hand over the list of candidates
00:53approved to contest the June 14 presidential elections,
00:56amid speculation that reformist former President Hashemi Rafsanjani
01:00may be disqualified due to his old age.
01:03Saudi Arabia says it has recorded another death from coronavirus,
01:06bringing the total number of deaths in the kingdom to 16.
01:09More than 20 people have died from the virus worldwide.
01:12In sport, the Indian Premier League playoffs begin today
01:15with Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians facing off.
01:18Decks were cleared for Jose Mourinho's possible return to Chelsea
01:21as Real Madrid confirmed last night that the coach will leave them at the end of the season.
01:25Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors, has died.
01:3074-year-old Manzarek's versatile and often haunting keyboards
01:34complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone
01:36and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs.
01:40Simon Cowell has added former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland
01:43and Latin artist Paulina Rubio to the cast of his reality show The X Factor.
01:47Finally, the weather and today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius,
01:51dropping to 22 at night.
01:53That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
01:54And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.