Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Thousands flee as cyclone hits Queensland. Meat sellers are on strike in Uttar Pradesh. US-backed forces capture Syrian airbase from Daesh. Hollywood star Zac Efron will be in Dubai on Friday.
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, March the 27th. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:07Thousands of Australians abandoned their homes as a powerful cyclone bore down on coastal
00:12towns in Queensland, while others ignored authorities' advice to evacuate, with winds
00:16forecast to reach up to 300 km per hour. Cyclone Debbie is forecast to strengthen to its Category
00:234 storm before it makes landfall in the Northeast state early on Tuesday.
00:27Protesting against a crackdown on illegal and mechanized slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh,
00:32meat sellers have gone on an indefinite strike in Lucknow. As residents and hotels struggled
00:37to meet their meat demands, fish emerged as the only recourse, leading to an unexpected
00:41hike in demand and prices.
00:43U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces captured a strategically important airbase from Daesh
00:48militants in North Syria in the first major victory for the group since the U.S. airlifted
00:53the forces behind enemy lines four days ago. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces announced
00:58that they had captured the Tabqa airbase 45 km west of Raqqa, the terrorist group's de
01:03facto capital in Syria.
01:05Hollywood star Zac Efron will be in Dubai on March 31 at Paris Gallery in the Dubai
01:10Mall. The 29-year-old will be in town as the face of Hugo Boss fragranced Hugo Man. Efron
01:16will be at the store from 6 to 8 p.m. to promote the perfume, as well as meet selected fans.
01:21Fans who buy the perfume will get a chance to meet him privately.
01:24And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 28 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:29to 21 degrees at night.
01:30That's all for now. Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest news
01:34at gulfnews.com.