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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, March 13. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:10Planes searching an area where Chinese satellites spotted possible debris from a missing Malaysian
00:14passenger jet have found no sign of wreckage, dimming hopes of a breakthrough in the mystery.
00:19China said its satellites had detected three large floating objects in a suspected crash
00:23site near where the Malaysian airline's plane lost contact.
00:27Military warplanes have attacked 29 Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip after Islamic Jihad
00:32launched a rocket barrage into Israel earlier on Wednesday, the military said. Palestinian
00:37eyewitnesses and journalists said warplanes hit bases of the Hamas rulers and the armed
00:41wing of the Islamic Jihad.
00:43Oman has signed an initial agreement with Iran to build a $1 billion submarine pipeline
00:48to import gas from the Islamic Republic, Oman's oil and gas minister has said.
00:53Seven people have died in floods that hit the northern Hale province of Saudi Arabia,
00:56the local media reported. The floods were triggered by heavy downpours that struck the
01:00region on Tuesday.
01:02A US judge has thrown out charges against an Indian diplomat whose New York arrest and
01:06strip search sparked a bitter diplomatic row with Delhi.
01:10Devyani Koppadagadi was arrested on December 12 outside her children's New York school,
01:15accused of defrauding her Indian housekeeper's visa application.
01:19Pope Francis will spend the first anniversary of his election in a spiritual retreat, far
01:23from the adoring crowds in Rome and the tensions within the church hierarchy that have defined
01:28the last year. The anniversary is not being marked in any official way.
01:32Taste of Dubai opens today, bringing top chefs from the OSN network, including Siba Motengana,
01:37Jenny Morris and Reza Mohammed. Master patisserie Eric Lanlard will also be present, among others
01:43at the Dubai Media City until March 15.
01:47And finally the weather. The daytime temperature will be 33 degrees Celsius, falling to 21
01:51at night.
01:52That's all for now, thanks for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be
01:55on Sunday, but as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com