00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, September 15. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:12A Kuwaiti court has sentenced seven people to death, five of them in absentia, for their
00:17roles in a deadly Shiite mosque bombing claimed by Daesh.
00:21A total of 29 defendants, seven of them women, had been on trial on charges of helping a
00:26Saudi suicide bomber carry out the attack on June 26, which killed 26 worshippers and
00:32wounded 227.
00:35The UAE foreign ministry has called on Emiratis planning to travel to the European Union states
00:41to comply with travel guidelines and log on to the Citizens Affairs page on its official
00:46website.
00:47The visitors must carry their passports and tickets while travelling within Schengen countries,
00:52the ministry said.
00:54Hundreds of refugees spent the night in the open on Serbia's northern border with Hungary,
00:59their passage to Western Europe stalled by a Hungarian crackdown to confront the continent's
01:04worst refugee crisis in two decades.
01:08Aid workers brought tents, food and water for about 500 refugees, many of them Syrians,
01:14who were denied entry overnight under a strict new border regime.
01:19North Korea said today its main nuclear complex, which has been the source of fissile material
01:24used in the country's atomic weapons programme, was in full operation.
01:29The director of the North's Atomic Energy Institute said the country was fully ready
01:33to cope with US hostility with nuclear weapons any time.
01:38Indian carrier Vistara, a joint venture between Tata Suns and Singapore Airlines, said it
01:43has opened its first overseas sales office in Dubai to tap into the demand from business
01:48travellers and Indian expatriates.
01:51The UAE-based Sharaf Travels was appointed last month by the airline as its general sales
01:56agent for the GCC to sell its services and tickets within India.
02:02In sport, Dimitri Pae ensured Slavon Bilic enjoyed another memorable evening at Steve
02:07McLaren's expense as West Ham cruised to a 2-0 win over struggling Newcastle last night.
02:14Pae scored once in each half to lift Bilic's Hammers to fifth place and leave Newcastle
02:20rooted to the bottom of the table without a league win this season.
02:26Movie star and former California Governor Anu Swarzenegger has been named the new host
02:30of Celebrity Apprentice, network NBC said.
02:34Swarzenegger replaces real estate magnate and Republican presidential hopeful Donald
02:38Trump, with whom NBC parted ways in June.
02:42The former governor will take over his new reality show post sometime next year.
02:47And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 37 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:52to 30 degrees at night.
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