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Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. New visa system in UAE from Sunday. Hindu hardliners step up campaign to block Indian temple to women. Michael Buble shuts down rumours of retirement from music.

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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, October the 18th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09A new visa system in the UAE that will extend the residency period for widows, divorcees
00:14and their children without a sponsor will come into effect from Sunday.
00:18The Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship said visits and tourist visas will also be
00:23extended without the need to leave the country.
00:26Divorces or dependents who are 18 years old will get one-year visas which will be extendable
00:31for one more year.
00:33Hindu hardliners blocked intersections, threatened drivers and ordered a 12-hour strike today
00:38as they stepped up their campaign to bar women from one of India's holiest temples.
00:43The Lord Ayyappa Temple at Sabarimala in the southern state of Kerala was meant to allow
00:47women from Wednesday, but hundreds of hardliners throwing stones at baton-wielding police defied
00:53the order.
00:54Three young men also surrounded and smashed the car windows of women television reporters
00:59and threatened others.
01:00Michael Bublé is shutting down rumours that he's going to retire from music, saying he
01:05was misquoted in a recent interview.
01:07Bublé said he is not planning on retiring anytime soon.
01:10He disputed an October 13th interview in the Daily Mail that said he would quit music after
01:15the release of his upcoming album, Love, due November 16th.
01:19I'll keep going until the news of my death comes out, which will probably be fake too.
01:24That's what the Canadian singer said with a chuckle.
01:26And finally, the weather.
01:27Today's highs across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 26 degrees at night.
01:33That's all for now and thanks for watching.
01:35We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest updates
01:39on gulfnews.com.