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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, February the 25th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:12An Al Ain court has ordered a truck driver's insurance company to pay Dhirum's 200,000
00:16blood money to the family of a victim of a bus and truck crash last February. More than
00:21Dhirum's 3 million of blood money is still stuck in the system for the families of 19
00:25Bangladeshi workers who died when their minibus overturned after colliding with the truck.
00:31But a relative of Mohammad Hashim, 45, says he has now won his court battle. An Egyptian
00:36and an Indian were also killed in the accident.
00:39Egypt's Prime Minister surprised members of his cabinet on Monday by abruptly announcing
00:44the resignation of the military-backed government. There is speculation that it was intended
00:49to clear the way for Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Defence Minister, to announce
00:54his candidacy in the upcoming presidential elections.
00:58Israeli warplanes launched two raids near the Syrian-Lebanese border Monday night. The
01:02attack raised speculation that Israel might have targeted a weapons convoy to prevent
01:07the Syrian government from delivering missiles to Hezbollah.
01:11Air raids on rebel-held towns across Syria killed 26 people on Monday, two days after
01:16the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to indiscriminate shelling
01:21and aerial attacks. Two women and 10 children were among the dead in government air raids
01:27on the town of al-Nashabiya.
01:29Ukraine's interim president, Oleksandr Turchynov, is due to form a unity government days after
01:35the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych. The move comes as UK Foreign Secretary William
01:40Hague and his US counterpart are due to meet in Washington to discuss emergency financial
01:45aid. An arrest warrant has been issued for Yanukovych, who has disappeared.
01:50In sport, top seed Novak Djokovic is a star attraction at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
01:55today as he begins his singles campaign with a match against Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin.
02:01Other players in action today include Juan Martin Del Porto, Tomas Perdic and Jovil Fitzonga.
02:07Harold Ramis, the writer, director, actor, who quietly and often off-screen created an
02:12unparalleled and hugely influential body of laughs, died Monday. He was 69. Ramis co-wrote
02:18and directed Caddyshack, Groundhog Day and Analyze This and starred alongside Bill Murray
02:24and Dan Uckryde in Ghostbusters.
02:26Robin Thicke and Paula Patton are calling it quits. A representative for the actress
02:30confirmed Monday that she and the single are ending their nine-year marriage. Thicke, 36,
02:35and Patton, 38, met when they were teenagers and have a son.
02:39And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:44to 18 degrees at night.
02:45That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.