00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, November the 16th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11Israeli occupation troops shot dead at least two Palestinians during a gun battle in the
00:15occupied West Bank today.
00:17At least three Palestinians were wounded in the confrontation at the Qalandia refugee
00:21camp near Ramallah, as troops demolished the home of a Palestinian as a part of its collective
00:26punishment policy.
00:27Almost 90 Palestinians have been killed in ongoing violence since tensions broke out
00:31in October over Jewish raids on al-Haram al-Sharif in occupied East Jerusalem.
00:36France launched massive airstrikes on Daesh's de facto capital in Syria Sunday night, destroying
00:41a training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa.
00:44Twelve aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest
00:49airstrike since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria
00:53in September.
00:54Meanwhile, as police announced seven arrests and hunted for more members of the sleeper
00:59cell that carried out the Paris attacks that killed 129 people, French officials said that
01:04several key suspects had been stopped and released by police after the attack.
01:08Veteran actor Saeed Jafri, known for his roles in Western and Indian productions, died on
01:13Sunday.
01:14The news of the 86-year-old's death was shared by his niece, Shaheen Agarwal.
01:19On Twitter, Jafri was known most for his roles in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, Merchant
01:24Ivory's A Passage to India, Satyajit Ray's Chhatranj Ke Khiladi, and Shekhar Kapoor's
01:30Masoom.
01:31The actor was also married to actress and celebrity chef Madhur Jafri, with whom he
01:35parted ways in 1965.
01:38The box office duo of James Bond and Charlie Brown again dominated North American movie
01:42theaters over the weekend, while Angelina Jolie's By the Sea made barely a ripple.
01:47Sony's Spectre, the 24th Bond installment and last week's top film, got a boost, too,
01:52over the weekend in China, where it debuted with $48 million.
01:56The penis movie from 20th Century Fox remained in second place.
02:00And finally, weather.
02:01Today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
02:07That's all for now.
02:08Thanks for watching.
02:09And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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