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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 13th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09A somber Hillary Clinton blamed her presidential election loss on FBI Director James Comey's
00:15announcement that newfound emails, possibly linked to her private server, were being reviewed.
00:22In a 20-minute phone call with donors, Clinton sent Comey's October 28th letter to lawmakers
00:28about the investigation had halted some of her momentum near the end of the race.
00:35Desert campers in Dubai beware.
00:38Drones will keep a watch over you to ensure you do not litter the desert.
00:43Dubai Municipality's Waste Management Department has started using an unmanned aircraft fitted
00:49with a camera to monitor such violations.
00:52Fines ranging from 500 to 5,000 dirhams will be imposed on errant campers.
00:59Security forces of Iraq's regional Kurdish government have routinely destroyed Arab homes
01:05in areas retaken from Daesh over the past two years.
01:09According to a new report by Human Rights Watch, between September 2014 and May 2016,
01:16Kurdish forces advancing against Daesh destroyed Arab homes in disputed areas of Kirkuk and
01:23Nineveh provinces, while Kurdish homes were left intact.
01:28In sport, Conor McGregor became the first fighter in UFC history to hold world titles
01:34in two weight divisions last night in midtown Manhattan.
01:39He defeated Eddie Alvarez to claim the lightweight crown atop the promotion's first pay-per-view
01:44show at Madison Square Garden.
01:48Rock star Sting on Saturday reopened the Bataclan, the Paris concert hall where terrorists massacred
01:5490 people with a hugely symbolic show to mark the first anniversary of France's bloodiest
02:00terror attack.
02:02But the concert hall's co-director said he had prevented two members of the Eagles of
02:07Death Metal, who were on stage on November 13, 2015, from entering last night.
02:13Jules Frutos said he was furious at Eagles frontman Jesse Hughes for his claims that
02:20some of the venue's Muslim security men were complicit in the attack.
02:25And finally, the weather.
02:26Today's high across the UAE will be 32 degrees Celsius, dropping to 24 degrees at night.
02:32That's all for now.
02:33Thanks for watching.
02:34And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com