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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, November the 23rd. Here are the
00:10top stories at this hour.
00:12Belgian police have arrested 16 people in 22 raids, but Paris fugitive Salah Abdel-Salam
00:18was not among them. Despite the raids, authorities maintained their highest terror alert in the
00:22capital for a third straight day.
00:25Nineteen raids were carried out in Molenbeek and other boroughs of Brussels, and three
00:30raids were carried out in other cities. One of those detained was injured when a car he
00:35was in tried to ram police during an attempted getaway.
00:39Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Iran today for talks, sure to sharpen attention
00:44on his alliance with Iran and Syria. Russia is propping up President Bashar al-Assad against
00:50Syrian rebels, most recently with airstrikes, and is working hand-in-hand with Iran, which
00:55is coordinating pro-al-Assad fighters on the ground.
00:59Opposition candidate Mauricio Macri won Argentina's presidential election, marking an end to the
01:05left-leaning and often combative era of President Cristina Fernandez, who along with her late
01:11husband dominated the country's political scene for 12 years and rewrote its social
01:16contract.
01:17Ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli, Fernandez's chosen successor, conceded and said he had
01:24called Macri to congratulate him on his victory.
01:27In tennis, world No. 1 Novak Djokovic captured his fourth successive title and fifth overall
01:33with a fluent 6-3, 6-4 win over Switzerland's Roger Betterer in the season-ending Barclays
01:40ATP World Tour finals at a jam-packed O2 Arena in London late last night.
01:47Tom Jones is returning to the UAE next year.
01:50The Welsh singer, best known for his hits such as It's Not Unusual, What's New Pussycat,
01:55and She's a Lady, will perform at Abu Dhabi's Duo Forum on April 15.
02:00His last performance in the UAE's capital was in 2013.
02:05Jones, 75, is a Grammy Award-winning artist.
02:09He received a knighthood nearly 10 years ago for his services to music.
02:14And finally, weather.
02:15Today's high across the UAE will be 29 degrees Celsius, dropping to 21 degrees at night.
02:21That's all for now.
02:22Thanks for watching.
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