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00:00Good day and welcome to the Golf News Update for Thursday, February 26th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11The GCC threw its support behind Yemen's embattled president as the group's chief visited Abd
00:16Rabbo Mansour Hadi in the city he fled to amid the al-Houthi rebel power grab in the
00:21capital Sana'a.
00:22The UN Security Council also backed Hadi as the legitimate president of Yemen and reaffirmed
00:28its commitment to the country's unity.
00:30GCC Secretary General Abdel Latif al-Zayani visited the president in Aden.
00:35US officials questioned Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu's judgment and said his outspoken
00:41condemnation of efforts to secure an Iranian nuclear deal had injected destructive partisanship
00:46into US-Israeli relations.
00:48US Secretary of State John Kerry engaged in international talks with Tehran on its nuclear
00:53programme, said Netanyahu may be wrong in his assessment of Iran's nuclear capabilities.
00:58Indian Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu outlined four goals for improvement over the next five
01:03years as he said passenger fares will not increase this year.
01:07The goals are giving a huge boost to customer experience, ensuring safer travel, modernisation
01:11of infrastructure and making Indian railways financially self-sustainable, the minister
01:16said while presenting his maiden budget in the Lok Sabha.
01:19Afghanistan earned their first ever Cricket World Cup win as they beat Scotland by just
01:24one wicket with three balls to spare in a dramatic Pool A match in Dunedin, New Zealand.
01:30Soumila Shenwari scored a brilliant 96 in Afghanistan's chase of 211, but his departure
01:35with 19 runs needed left last pair Hamid Hassan and Shapo Zadran to see them over the line.
01:43Best-selling English singer-songwriter James Blunt and YouTube sensation Christina Perri
01:47got the 2015 Emirates Dubai Jazz Festival off to a rousing start at the Dubai Media
01:52City Amphitheatre last night.
01:54Blunt sang most of his hits, highlighted by his most successful song to date, You're Beautiful,
01:59to a sell-out crowd after Perri's mesmerising performance that included crowd favourite
02:03A Thousand Years.
02:05Sting plays at a sold-out show tonight.
02:07And finally, the weather.
02:08Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night.
02:13That's all for now.
02:15A reminder that our next bulletin will be on Sunday, but as always, you can get the
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