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Fast and Furious 6 hits theatres. Mobile government initiative launched. Friends of Syria demand Iran, Hezbollah withdrawal from Syria. Iran president to appeal to Ayatollah on disqualification of his aide from presidential elections. Rajasthan Royals play Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League. Preity Zinta returns in Ishq In Paris. Tamer Hosni performs Friday.
Fast and Furious 6 hits theatres. Mobile government initiative launched. Friends of Syria demand Iran, Hezbollah withdrawal from Syria. Iran president to appeal to Ayatollah on disqualification of his aide from presidential elections. Rajasthan Royals play Mumbai Indians in Indian Premier League. Preity Zinta returns in Ishq In Paris. Tamer Hosni performs Friday.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, May 23. Here are the top stories
00:11at this hour. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and
00:15Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, yesterday launched a landmark mobile government
00:20initiative in the UAE. The project, which should be achieved in two years, seeks to
00:24offer all government services to the public from anywhere and around the clock. The Telecommunications
00:29Regulatory Authority has allocated 200 million dirhams to support the initiative. The Friends
00:34of Syria Alliance has called on Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, to withdraw fighters
00:39immediately from Syrian territory. Syria's main opposition group, the Syrian National
00:43Coalition, gathers for a landmark conference in Istanbul today to elect a new leader and
00:48discuss peace talks with the regime. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denounced
00:53as unjust the supervisory electoral body's disqualification of his top aide, Esfandiar
00:59Rahim Mashaie, from next month's presidential poll. Ahmadinejad said he plans to appeal
01:03to the nation's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A British soldier was hacked
01:08to death by two men in a South London street last night in what the government said appeared
01:12to be a terrorist attack. The victim was assaulted outside a military barracks in Woolwich. When
01:17officers arrived at the scene, they shot and wounded two armed men. Prime Minister David
01:21Cameron will meet security chiefs following the murder. In sport, Rajasthan Royals will
01:25play Mumbai Indians in the final Indian Premier League qualifier tomorrow, with the winner
01:30going on to meet Chennai Super Kings in Sunday's title match. Entertainment, and as the Fast
01:35and Furious crew return for their sixth instalment to the cinemas this weekend, Bollywood lovers
01:39can catch the return of Pretty Zinta and the big screen after 2008 in the romantic comedy
01:44Ishq in Paris. If the jitterbugs bit new, head to the 5th Dubai Tango Festival, featuring
01:49performances by maestros such as Mariano Ciccio Fromboli and Juana Sepulveda at the
01:54Meydan Hotel. On Friday, Egyptian singer Tamer Hosni performs at the Dubai World Trade Center.
02:00Finally, the weather, and today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:04to 22 at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. We will be back with the newscast
02:09on Sunday, but you can always get the latest news at gulfnews.com.