00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, October the 29th. Here are the
00:10top stories at this hour.
00:12Hurricane-strength winds battered northern Europe on Monday, killing more than 13 people,
00:16cutting power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and train journeys.
00:21The storm had barrelled in overnight with gusts of about 160 kilometers per hour, leaving
00:26a trail of damage across parts of southern Britain, before heading eastwards into mainland
00:31Europe.
00:32The waiting time for taxis booked through the Roads and Transport Authority's Dispatch
00:36Centre will be reduced considerably as the Authority launches a new fleet of taxis. Hala
00:42Taxi, a batch of 155 cabs, will be deployed from November 1. Twenty-five of these will
00:47be dedicated for women and families.
00:50The trial resumes of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Badi and his two deputies over
00:55charges related to the deaths of protesters who stormed the Islamist organization's Cairo
01:00headquarters on June 30.
01:02The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group sympathetic to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,
01:07seized control of an online tool used by an advocacy organization for US President Barack
01:13Obama to redirect links sent from his Twitter and Facebook accounts. Obama's Facebook and
01:19Twitter pages carried links that were intended to take readers to a Washington Post story
01:24on immigration, but as a result of the hack, redirected readers to a video of the Syrian
01:29conflict instead.
01:30The United States has said it must better weigh the risks and rewards of its spying
01:35activities as Europe fulminates over reports it eavesdrops on German Chancellor Angela
01:41Merkel and other world leaders.
01:42Organizers of this weekend's Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix have announced that tickets
01:47for the event have sold out for the fifth year in a row. A record 55,000 fans from 80
01:53countries will be at Yas Marina to watch newly confirmed four-time world champion
01:58Sebastian Vettel battle it out with his rivals.
02:01And finally, weather. The daytime temperature will be 34 degrees Celsius falling to 22 at
02:06night.
02:07That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:10at GulfNews.com.
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