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00:00Welcome to the Golf News Update for Monday July 17th. Here are the top stories at this
00:06hour.
00:07Emirates and FlyDubai have announced a partnership which will see them joining forces to offer
00:12customers access to both networks. Both airlines will continue to be managed independently
00:18but will leverage each other's network to scale up their operations and accelerate growth.
00:23Emirates said in a statement the partnership will include code sharing as well as integrated
00:27network collaboration with coordinated scheduling.
00:31Quick footage Dubai police have recovered 3 million dirham in gold stolen by mass thugs
00:36in a daring armed robbery at an international city gold shop last week. Uniformed police
00:41officers raided the thieves' hideout within 48 hours of the robbery on Wednesday, thwarting
00:46the group's plans to flee the country.
00:48South Korea has proposed resuming some military and humanitarian exchanges with North Korea.
00:54President Moon Jae-in seeks to follow through on campaign pledges to pursue dialogue with
01:00Kim Jong-un. The South's defence ministry ordered talks with Pyongyang counterparts
01:05Monday while the National Red Cross pledged reunion events for families split by decades
01:09of hostilities.
01:11George Romero, whose Night of the Living Dead and other horror films turned zombie movies
01:16into social commentaries, has died at 77. Romero died Sunday following a battle with
01:21lung cancer, his family said.
01:24Romero is credited with reinventing the zombie movie genre with his directorial debut, the
01:281968 cult classic Night of the Living Dead.
01:33And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, with 44 degrees Celsius dropping
01:37to 32 degrees at night.
01:39That's all for now, thank you for watching. As always you can get the latest news on thecomicnews.com