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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, November the 13th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late on Sunday, killing 207 people
00:13and injuring over 2,500 in the mountainous region of Iran alone.
00:19The temblor killed at least seven people in Iraq and injured 321 there, all in the country's
00:25northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
00:29The magnitude 7.3 quake was centred 31 kilometres outside the eastern Iraqi city of Malabja.
00:36US President Donald Trump declared he had a great relationship with Philippine President
00:40Rodrigo Duterte, who is waging a drugs war that rights groups say involves mass murder
00:47as the leaders joked with each other in Manila.
00:50The US President is in the Philippines with leaders of 18 other nations for two days of
00:54summits, the final leg of a headline-grabbing Asian tour dominated by the North Korean nuclear crisis.
01:01Switzerland and Croatia booked their spots at the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia next
01:07summer as Northern Ireland and Greece missed out.
01:10The Swiss held Michael O'Neill's side to a 0-0 draw to advance 1-0 on aggregate, while
01:17Greece versus Croatia was also goalless in Piraeus, meaning the visitors progressed comfortably
01:23thanks to a 4-1 win in the first leg.
01:27Canadian pop singer Shawn Mendes led the pack at the MTV Europe Music Awards on Sunday night,
01:32taking home Best Song, Best Artist and Biggest Fans awards in a show that featured performances
01:39from French Montana, The Killers and Kesha.
01:42British R&B singer Rita Ora performed the hosting duties as well as a mash-up of her
01:492017 hit Your Song alongside her new single Anywhere.
01:54And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius dropping
01:58to 24 degrees at night.
02:00That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com