00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, December the 10th. Here are
00:23the top stories at this hour.
00:25Traditional cargo dows that called Duvai Creek their home for decades will be shifting base
00:29to Alhambra Port. A three-kilometer-long wharfage that will allow more than 450 dows
00:35to berth at a time has been developed in an area opposite the Hyatt Regency Hotel, stretching
00:40all the way to the Deraa Island.
00:43The United States brutalized scores of terror suspects with interrogation tactics that turned
00:47secret CIA prisons into chambers of suffering and did nothing to make America safer after
00:53the 9-11 attacks. That's according to Senate investigators.
00:57The Senate Intelligence Committee's torture report accused the CIA of misleading its
01:01political masters about what it was doing with its black-site captives and deceiving
01:06Americans about the effectiveness of its techniques.
01:10The Gulf Cooperation Council agreed on Tuesday night to create a joint naval force based
01:14in Bahrain and announced a police force based in Abu Dhabi. The creation of the police and
01:19the naval forces were announced at the conclusion of the Gulf bloc's annual summit in Qatar.
01:24During the summit, Qatar also joined its neighbors in supporting Egypt under President
01:29Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
01:32Sport and a memorable Steven Gerrard strike couldn't prevent Liverpool from being eliminated
01:36from the Champions League. Basel went through on Tuesday night, while Juventus and Monaco
01:40also advanced to the last 16. Gerrard scored a spectacular late free kick for the 10-man
01:45Reds, but the Swiss side held on for a deserved one-all draw.
01:50Australia cricket captain Michael Clarke and teammate Stephen Smith paid fitting tributes
01:55to late former teammate Philip Hughes today. Both scored centuries on a rain-affected second
02:00day of the first test against India in Adelaide.
02:03The 11th Dubai International Film Festival begins tonight at the Madinat Arena with a
02:08screening of awards tip Stephen Hawking biopic, The Theory of Everything. Among the stars
02:13attending the 118 film screenings are jury president director Lee Daniels and actors
02:19Emily Blunt, John Abraham and Kelsey Grammer. Lifetime Achievement Awards will be given
02:24tonight to Indian singer Asha Bosley and Egyptian actor Nour El-Sharif.
02:30And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 27 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:34to 18 tonight.
02:35That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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