Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Dubai schools allowed to increase fees. About Dh4.5b military contracts awarded on the opening day of International Defence Exhibition. Trump refers to Sweden terror incident. Mariah Carey will perform at Dubai Jazz Festival on Thursday. IPL auction: Stokes sold for a whopping $2.16 million. Barcelona boos unhelpful: Luis Enrique.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, February 20. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08Dubai's private schools can increase fees ranging from 2.4% to 4.8% for the academic
00:14year 2017-18, depending on their inspection rating. The Knowledge and Human Development
00:20Authority said the Dubai Statistics Center has set the new annual education cost index
00:25at 2.4%, and the increases were based on the index.
00:29The 13th edition of International Defense Exhibition and the 4th edition of Naval Defense
00:33Exhibition got underway in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. On the first day, organizers at IDEX announced
00:39deals worth 4.5 billion dirhams for the supply of military equipment to the UAE armed forces.
00:46The opening ceremony was attended by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice
00:51President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed
00:56bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed
01:01Forces.
01:02A day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related security incident in Sweden,
01:07President Donald Trump said his comment was based on a television report. Trump told a
01:12rally on Saturday that Sweden was having serious problems with immigrants.
01:16"'You look at what's happening last night in Sweden,' Trump told the audience, prompting
01:20the country's baffled government asking the U.S. State Department to explain.
01:24"'My statement as to what's happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was
01:29broadcast on Fox News concerning immigrants and Sweden,' Trump said in a tweet on Sunday."
01:34Mariah Carey will perform at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre as part of Emirates Airline Dubai
01:40Jazz Festival on Thursday. She'll share a three-day bill with Tom Jones and Enrique Iglesias,
01:45who will take the stage on Wednesday and Friday, respectively.
01:49Carey's Dubai performance will be only her second in the city. Her first was in 2004.
01:54England all-rounder Ben Stokes became the most expensive foreign player in Indian Premier League
02:00history when he was bought by the rising Pune Giants for more than $2 million at auction today.
02:06The 25-year-old fetched seven times the amount of England's limited overs captain Ewain Morgan,
02:12who was sold to the King Six Punjab for $300,000 in the auction.
02:17The winning bid shattered the previous record paid for a foreign cricketeer, which was set in 2014
02:23when the Delhi Daredevils paid 90 million rupees for Kevin Peterson. Barcelona boss
02:28Luis Enrique labelled harsh treatment dished out to his players by Barca fans nonsensical,
02:34as the Spanish champion squeezed past Ligon's 2-1 on Sunday.
02:38Following a 4-0 thrashing by Paris Saint-Germain, Barca needed a last-minute Lionel Messi penalty
02:45to see off a Ligon side without a win since November. Messi had given Barca a fourth-minute
02:50lead, but jeers rang around the Camp Nou when Unai Lopez levelled 19 minutes from time.
02:56And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 22 degrees Celsius,
03:01dropping to 15 degrees at night. That's all for now, thanks for watching,
03:05and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com