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00:00Good Day, Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, October 28.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12An innovation hub that includes projects worth 4.5 billion dirhams was launched on Monday
00:17by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister
00:21of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
00:23The announcement was made by Sheikh Mohammed at a ceremony to celebrate the 15th anniversary
00:27of Dubai Internet City.
00:29The funds have been allocated to develop infrastructure projects and innovation complexes
00:34on an area of 10 million square feet, Sheikh Mohammed said.
00:38Dubai will impose a charge on waste by the first half of next year, a senior official
00:42said on Monday.
00:44Commercial and industrial waste will be charged per ton, Abdul Majid Saifi, Director of Dubai
00:49Municipality's Waste Management Department, said.
00:52Egypt's President expanded the powers of the country's armed forces Monday to enable the
00:57prosecution of civilians in military courts.
01:00The measures by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi allows the military to try civilians for a
01:04wide variety of crimes, including destroying public property and blocking roads.
01:09The secular Nida Tunis party won the largest number of seats in Tunisia's parliamentary
01:13elections, defeating the Islamist Al Nada party.
01:17Al Nada's leader, Rashid Ghanoushi, called Beji Ghaid al-Sefsi, the 87-year-old leader
01:21of Nida Tunis, on Monday to congratulate him.
01:25Devendra Fadnavis, the BJP's 44-year-old chief of Maharashtra, is expected to be chosen
01:29as the state's next chief minister at a meeting today.
01:32A grand swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to take place on Friday at Mumbai's Vankati Stadium.
01:38Sport and French legend Zinedine Zidane and his club Real Madrid are embroiled in an embarrassing
01:42dispute with the Spanish Football Federation.
01:45According to Spanish media, the federation handed Zidane a three-month coaching ban for
01:49not possessing required coaching qualifications.
01:53The winner of the Funniest Person in the World competition is a brown-haired, slightly
01:56rotund stand-up comic from Finland, who boasts he has hit on the perfect solution to the
02:02planet's international monetary woes.
02:04In second place was Saad Haroon of Pakistan, while Nitin Mirani from the UAE was fourth.
02:09And finally, the weather.
02:10Today's high across the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, dropping to 26 degrees at night.
02:16That's all for now.
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