00:00Good day! Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, November 13. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour.
00:12Philippine President Benigno Aquino said local officials had overstated the death toll from
00:17Typhoon Haiyan, saying it was closer to 2,000 or 2,500 than the 10,000 previously estimated.
00:25Desperation gripped Philippine islands devastated by the typhoon as looting turned deadly and
00:30survivors panicked over delays in supplies of food, water, and medicine.
00:35Five days after one of the strongest storms ever recorded roared over cities and towns
00:39in central Philippines, survivors in remote regions complained they had yet to receive
00:44any aid.
00:45Egypt's government said it's lifting the country's three-month state of emergency
00:49and nighttime curfew. The measures were introduced on August 14 after security forces forcibly
00:55ended sit-ins in support of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.
01:00Israel is making plans to build nearly 24,000 more colony homes in the occupied West Bank
01:06and East Jerusalem.
01:07Anti-colony group Peace Now said the Housing Ministry had issued tenders late last month
01:12for drawing up construction plans but that no building work was imminent.
01:17Syria's largest Kurdish party, the Kurdish Democratic Union, has said it plans to form
01:22a transitional administration. The administration would rule Kurdish-majority areas in the northeast
01:28until the broader conflict is over. Kurdish groups in northern Syria have tried to stay
01:33out of the civil war between the government and rebels.
01:37India's antitrust regulator has approved Jet Airways' plan to sell a 24 percent stake
01:42to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, moving the first investment by a foreign airline
01:46in an Indian carrier closer to completion. The approval came from Competition Commission
01:52of India. The deal is worth US$312 million.
01:57A sell-out crowd is set to witness Sachin Tendulkar's last test match to be played
02:01against the West Indies at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai from tomorrow.
02:06The UAE release of Ram Lila is currently not affected by a Delhi court order staying the
02:11Indian release of the Bollywood movie starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. Industry
02:16sources confirmed it had cleared UAE censors with an 18 certificate. The movie is scheduled
02:22to be released on Thursday in the UAE and on Friday in India.
02:26And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 32 degrees Celsius, falling to 21
02:31at night.
02:32That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news
02:36at gulfnews.com.
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