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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, September 14. Here are the
00:06top stories at this hour.
00:08Two days after violence shook Bengaluru in protest against Karnataka releasing more Calvary
00:12River waters to Tamil Nadu, the country's tech hub was back to normal. With buses, taxis
00:18and metro rail resuming service, thousands of people were seen commuting to offices.
00:24Passengers going to or alighting at railway junctions and bus terminals in the city and
00:28the airport on the outskirts are able to get transport as trains, interstate buses
00:33and flights are operating on schedule.
00:36The UN Syria envoy has applauded a significant drop in violence through the first 24 hours
00:41of a fragile ceasefire, but said security concerns meant aid convoys stayed on hold.
00:47The truce brokered by Russia and the United States began at sundown on Monday in the latest
00:52bid to end a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people since March 2011.
00:59The World Anti-Doping Agency has slammed Russian hackers who breached its database and published
01:05confidential records of US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and tennis star Venus and Serena
01:11Williams.
01:12WADA said the Russian cyber espionage group Tsar Team, also known as Fancy Bears, had
01:18broken into its anti-doping administration and management system database.
01:23The hacking group released information gleaned from the files of Biles, the Williams sisters
01:27and US women's basketball player Elena De La Don.
01:31Penguin Random House announced that it will publish the 23-year-old's first autobiography,
01:36Zayn, which will be released on November 1.
01:39He cancelled scheduled concerts in the United Kingdom and Dubai in recent months because
01:43of extreme anxiety around major live solo performances.
01:47The singer-songwriter says he wrote the autobiography so his fans can judge him on his own terms,
01:52not on what the press or anyone else says.
01:55And finally, the weather today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:59to 29 degrees at night.