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UK considering waiving visas for Emiratis. Canadian visa requirements to be eased. Israel threatens action in Syria. Rebels give Hezbollah ultimatum to cease fighting in Syria. US missiles kill four alleged militants in Pakistan. N Srinivasan may have to quit Indian Cricket Board. Neighbors claim Justin Bieber speeding in gated community; investigations under way.
UK considering waiving visas for Emiratis. Canadian visa requirements to be eased. Israel threatens action in Syria. Rebels give Hezbollah ultimatum to cease fighting in Syria. US missiles kill four alleged militants in Pakistan. N Srinivasan may have to quit Indian Cricket Board. Neighbors claim Justin Bieber speeding in gated community; investigations under way.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, May the 29th. Here are the
00:10top stories at this hour. The UK government is considering a proposal
00:14to waive visas for Emiratis, according to Alastair Burt, Parliamentary Under-Secretary
00:19of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Burt announced this during his visit to Abu
00:23Dhabi yesterday. Meanwhile, the Canadian government announced that the UAE will drop pre-visa
00:28requirements for Canadians traveling to the Emirates by June 1.
00:32Israel warned it will know what to do if Russia delivers promised anti-aircraft missiles to
00:36its war-torn ally, Syria, amid growing fears of a wider conflict brewing as the fighting
00:41spills into Lebanon. Syria's top rebel commander gave Hezbollah a 24-hour ultimatum to stop
00:47fighting alongside regime forces. Meanwhile, rebels on the ground in Syria have launched
00:52a blistering attack on the Syrian opposition coalition outside the country.
00:57A pair of suspected US missiles fired from an unmanned aircraft killed four alleged militants
01:01this morning near the Afghan border in Pakistan. The strike was the first since President Barack
01:06Obama's speech last week on the controversial US drone program.
01:11In sport, the under-fire president of Indian Cricket Board may have to finally go with
01:15the IPL chairman Rajiv Shukla, saying N. Srinivasan should stay away till the spot-fixing scandal
01:21inquiry is over. Talking to reporters after meeting BCCI Vice
01:25President Arun Jaitley, Shukla said they have recommended to Srinivasan that he should
01:30stay away from cricket affairs till the investigations are on, and now it is up to him to decide
01:35on the matter. Entertainment and Justin Bieber's in the
01:38news again, this time for speeding. Detectives are investigating claims by the pop star's
01:42neighbor that he was speeding inside his gated community in Los Angeles.
01:46We take this very seriously and if this actually did occur, it is unacceptable behavior from
01:51anybody, anywhere, anytime," a sheriff department spokesman said.
01:55Finally, the weather and today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:00to 25 at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. As
02:03always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
02:16.