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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, June 16. Here are the top stories
00:06at this hour.
00:07Dubai has reached a medical milestone with the successful transplant of a kidney of a
00:11deceased donor to a 29-year-old woman.
00:15Dubai Healthcare City Authority said on Wednesday this was the first cadaver transplant in the
00:20Emirate.
00:21The surgery was carried out on June 8, with the kidney being flown from Riyadh to Dubai
00:25by a medical evacuation team.
00:28Companies in the UAE that record annual revenues over 3.75 million dirhams will be obliged
00:33to register under a value-added tax system and will be taxed accordingly.
00:38Yunus Al Khoury, Under-Secretary at the UAE Ministry of Finance, said it will eventually
00:43become obligatory for all companies to register under the VAT system.
00:48Pieces of the cabin from the missing Egypt Airplane which crashed into the Mediterranean
00:52last month have been found.
00:54A French vessel taking part in the search discovered pieces of fuselage at several sites.
00:59The Airbus A320, which had been en route from Paris to Cairo, disappeared on May 19, with
01:05the loss of all 66 people on board.
01:08US senators have signalled a new willingness to consider restrictions on the sale of guns
01:13after the Orlando nightclub massacre.
01:16Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and others in his party seem
01:20ready to discuss limited gun control measures.
01:23If Congress was to pass a gun control measure, it would mark the first time in more than
01:2820 years that lawmakers agreed on how to address the hot-button issue.
01:32Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston are an item, according to photos of the pair together by
01:37the sea taken by the sun.
01:39The photos of the pop star and actor, who is tipped to be the next James Bond, come
01:43two weeks after Swift's 15-month relationship with Scottish DJ Calvin Harris ended.
01:49And finally, the weather.
01:50Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
01:56That's all for now.
01:57Thanks for watching.
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02:02gulfnews.com.