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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, October the 21st.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Starting today, the customer service centers of almost 40 Dubai government departments
00:14will be closed till Thursday.
00:16The move is part of the Week Without Service Centers initiative, with more than 1,100 services
00:22available online.
00:23For the entire week, 100 service centers, including semi-government and private companies,
00:29will deliver their services through websites, apps, electronic kiosks and call centers.
00:36Customers visiting any government customer service center will not be served in person.
00:41U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to pull out of a major arms control treaty
00:46with Russia, claiming the Kremlin breached their accord on intermediate-range nuclear
00:51weapons.
00:52We are not going to let them violate a nuclear agreement, Trump said after a campaign rally
00:58in Nevada.
00:59We are going to terminate the agreement.
01:02The U.S. has been warning Russia it could resort to strong countermeasures unless Moscow
01:07complies with international commitments to arms reduction.
01:12The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was concluded in 1987 and is considered a
01:17landmark of Cold War detente.
01:21Nearly a week after Kerala's Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple opened for rituals, women continued
01:27to be barred from entering it by a large number of protesters.
01:31Two women from Andhra Pradesh were stopped by protesters suspecting that they were below
01:3550 years.
01:36Following strong protests, the visibly shaken women decided to beat a retreat.
01:42The Marvel Universe just got a slice smaller on Netflix with the cancellation of Marvel's
01:47Luke Cage after two seasons.
01:50The news surprised fans and came soon after Netflix axed another live-action Marvel series
01:56Iron Fist.
01:58Both are part of the Defenders world and ordered up by Netflix among five back in 2013.
02:05Netflix didn't provide a reason for the cancellation.
02:09And finally, the weather.
02:10Today's high across the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, dropping to 27 degrees at night.
02:16That's all for now.
02:17Thanks for watching.
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