00:00Good day.
00:06Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, May the 24th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11A six-month stay outside the UAE does not automatically cancel residency visas in some situations.
00:17The Ministry of Interior has clarified.
00:19Such special situations include expatriates going abroad for medical treatment,
00:23foreign wives of UAE citizens staying abroad,
00:26and domestic helpers who are accompanying Emiratis studying abroad or seeking medical attention,
00:31said Brigadier Dr. Rashid Sultan Al-Khadr, Deputy Chairperson of the Legal Council at the Ministry.
00:36Saudi forces and Yemen's al-Houthi militia traded heavy artillery fire,
00:40which blew up part of the main border crossing between the two countries overnight.
00:44The Harad border crossing, the largest for passengers and goods between Saudi Arabia and Yemen,
00:48was evacuated amid shelling which razed its departure lounge and passport section, witnesses said.
00:53Legendary Egyptian actor Omar Sharif has been struggling with Alzheimer's disease for the last three years, his son Tarek says.
00:59He told a Spanish newspaper that the 83-year-old star has problems with his memory and confuses the names of his films.
01:05Sharif has retired from the industry because of his illness,
01:08with his most recent film being the 2013 French-Moroccan production Rock the Casbah.
01:13Sweden narrowly beat Russia today in a nail-biting 60th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest,
01:19earning its sixth crown in Europe's annual Anything Goes music extravaganza.
01:2341 years after Swedish superstars ABBA took the title,
01:26chiseled man Zelmerlo won 365 points from voters and juries in 40 countries,
01:32with his up-tempo crowd-pleaser Heroes.
01:35And finally, weather.
01:36Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
01:41That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
01:44And as always, you can get the latest news at Gulfnews.com.
01:49GULF NEWS
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