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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, April 21. Here are the top stories
00:10at this hour. U.S. President Barack Obama met His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed
00:15al-Nayan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces
00:21to discuss top issues for the Gulf region last night. On the agenda of the discussion
00:26were the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, Daesh militants, and negotiation over Iran's
00:31nuclear program. Obama hosted Sheikh Mohammed at the White House amid continuing violence
00:36in Yemen, Syria, and Libya, which has created a refugee crisis. Saudi Arabia has put security
00:43forces on alert for a possible militant attack on a shopping mall or energy installation,
00:48the Interior Ministry has said. Riyadh has been carrying out airstrikes against Iran-allied
00:53al-Houthi militia in neighboring Yemen since March 26, in a military conflict in which
00:58nine members of his security forces have been killed by cross-border fire. Italian police
01:03have arrested two suspected people traffickers among the survivors of the migrant boat that
01:07capsized off Libya on Sunday. The UN, meanwhile, said 800 people were killed in the Mediterranean's
01:12worst migrant disaster. They said they had detained a Tunisian man believed to be the
01:16captain of the vessel and a Syrian allegedly a member of the ship's crew, taken from a
01:20group of 27 haggard survivors who arrived in the Sicilian port of Catania on Monday.
01:26Chinese President Xi Jinping today applauded Pakistan's anti-terrorism effort in a speech
01:31to Parliament, vowing his nation would continue to stand by its neighbor. Lawmakers gave Xi
01:37a standing ovation after his address. Xi arrived Monday to Islamabad on a two-day visit, bringing
01:42with him investment projects worth $45 billion in energy and infrastructure construction.
01:48Ethiopia's Lalisa Desisa claimed the Boston Marathon title last night, winning his second
01:53crown in three years. The win came on the eve of the sentencing for convicted marathon
01:57bomber Zoko Zanev. Desisa won the 26-mile race in a time of two hours, nine minutes
02:02and 17 seconds.
02:05And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE. It will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:09to 21 degrees at night.
02:11That's all for now. Thank you for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
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