Afghan presidential election deadlock ends - GN Midday
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, September the 21st.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Cityscape Global 2014 opened this morning in Dubai with organizers projecting 35,000
00:18people to attend this year's show.
00:21Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed Al Maktoum, head of Dubai's Supreme Fiscal Committee, opened
00:25the three-day event at the Dubai World Trade Center.
00:28The property and real estate exhibition has grown by over 25 percent in space compared
00:34to last year, according to organizers.
00:38Dubai is planning to regulate how homes and businesses can install solar panels to generate
00:43their own electricity and feed extra power into the main grid.
00:48The rules are expected to take into account whether any financial incentive could be given
00:53to solar energy users, according to an official at Dubai Electricity and Water Authority.
01:00In an interview before making his world debut at the United Nations at the end of this month,
01:05Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said that followers of the Muslim Brotherhood
01:10could participate in politics in the future if they renounce violence.
01:15Parliamentary elections are to be held in Egypt by the year-end, he said.
01:19The Brotherhood and its political party, however, have been banned from the elections.
01:25Yemen's top security body imposed an overnight curfew in restive areas of Sana'a yesterday.
01:31The move came after Al-Houthi rebels took over the state television building in the
01:36Yemeni capital amid heavy clashes and the UN envoy to the country signalled that a deal
01:42had been reached to end the violence.
01:46Rival candidates in the bitterly disputed Afghan presidential election signed an agreement
01:51on a unity government today, potentially easing months of tension that destabilised Afghanistan.
01:58As part of a power-sharing deal, former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani will become the
02:03new president and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah chief executive with newly
02:08expanded powers.
02:11And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 37 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:16to 29 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can
02:21get the latest news at gulfnews.com.