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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Sunday, January 13. Here are the top stories
00:10at this hour.
00:12Six men have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping a 29-year-old woman in India's Punjab state.
00:18The victim was travelling in a bus when the driver and his assistant forcibly took her
00:22to an unknown location where five other men joined them. Police said that the woman's
00:26medical examination has confirmed sexual assault.
00:30In Dubai, a survey commissioned by the municipality found the city still has room for further
00:35development projects. Only 60% of Dubai's area is either developed or under development,
00:40according to the survey. The new database will help identify the areas that can be utilised
00:45for future housing, investment and industrial projects.
00:50Israeli police, backed by bulldozers this morning, evicted Palestinian protesters from
00:54a hilltop camp they set up in a West Bank area slated for an illegal Jewish colony.
01:00About 200 Palestinian activists set up the Bab al-Shams camp on Friday in the controversial
01:05E1 area.
01:07Russia says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's exit cannot be a precondition for a transition
01:13deal. Despite heavy diplomatic efforts last week, there was no sign of a breakthrough
01:17to end the country's conflict. New York has declared an emergency over a flu epidemic
01:23that has affected more than 19,000 people. Governor Andrew Cuomo said it was critical
01:28to suspend for the next 30 days a legal restriction that only allows New York pharmacists to administer
01:34flu vaccines to patients 18 years or older.
01:37Aaron Swartz, a co-founder of Reddit and an activist who fought to make online content
01:42free to the public, has been found dead. The 26-year-old was to go on trial on accusations
01:48that he stole millions of journal articles from an electronic archive in an attempt to
01:53make them freely available.
01:56In business, the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week commences today with the third session
02:01of the International Renewable Energy Agency's General Assembly. As part of the week, the
02:06World Future Energy Summit will bring together global leaders in policy, technology and business
02:12to discuss new ways of shaping the future of renewable energy.
02:16In sport, UAE football fans are queuing up across the country to register for free flights
02:22to take them to Bahrain to watch the Gulf Cup semi-final on Tuesday. UAE will play Kuwait
02:27while Iraq faces Bahrain in the other semi-final on the same day.
02:32Entertainment and a 23-year-old contestant from Brooklyn won the title of Miss America
02:37in Las Vegas last night. Mallory Hagan won the beauty pageant after tap dancing to James
02:42Brown's Get Up Off Of That Thing and answering a question about whether armed guards belong
02:47in grade schools by saying, we should not fight violence with violence.
02:52Weather and today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 15 degrees
02:57at night.
02:58That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com