Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has killed suspected criminals. Syrian rebel pullout from Aleppo delayed. Alan Thicke dies from a heart attack at age 69.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, December 14.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he personally killed suspected criminals
00:14when he was mayor of Davao to set an example for police.
00:19Duterte made the comments in a speech to businessmen as he discussed his campaign
00:24to eradicate illegal drugs that has seen police and unknown assailants
00:29kill thousands of people since he became president on June 30.
00:33In Davao, I used to do it personally, just to show to the guys, the police,
00:37that if I can do it, why can't you?
00:40I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble.
00:45I was looking for a confrontation so I could kill, Duterte said.
00:50The Syrian rebel pullout from their last holdout in the city of Aleppo has been delayed.
00:56The withdrawal was supposed to start early in the morning after the rebels reached a ceasefire deal
01:02to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in what is effectively a surrender
01:07and a defining moment in Syria's civil war.
01:10Buses are prepared to move 5,000 fighters and their families to Attarib,
01:15an opposition-held town in the northwestern Aleppo countryside.
01:20A publicist says Alan Thicke, who played the likeable father on the sitcom Growing Pains,
01:25has died at age 69.
01:28Carlene Donovan, who is a publicist for Thicke's son, singer Robin Thicke,
01:32says the actor died from a heart attack on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
01:37Alan Thicke starred as Dr. Jason Seaver in the ABC series Growing Pains,
01:42which aired from 1985 until 1992.
01:47And finally, the weather.
01:48Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 15 degrees at night.
01:53That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
01:55But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com