00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, November 17. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour.
00:12Five weapons, including Kalashnikov rifles and M-16 machine guns, explosives and detonators,
00:18were presented by the State Security Prosecution to the Federal Supreme Court on Monday.
00:24The weapons were recovered from suspected terrorists who witnesses said planned to overthrow
00:28the UAE government and murder people. Forty suspects, including 38 Emiratis from al-Manara
00:35terrorist organization, are facing trial at the Security Court. Two witnesses said during
00:41the hearing, the suspects had smuggled these weapons, ammunition and detonators into the
00:46UAE in collaboration with Syria's al-Nusra Front and Al-Ansar Front from Iran's Balochistan
00:52province.
00:53French warplanes carried out fresh raids overnight against Daesh stronghold of Raqqa in northern
00:59Syria, destroying a command and training centre, the defence ministry has said. President François
01:06Hollande has vowed to hit back at Daesh without mercy after Friday's attacks in Paris.
01:12Yemen's President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi returned to the southern fourth city of Aden today
01:18to rally forces fighting Al-Houthi militants in Taiz. It was not immediately clear how
01:24long Hadi would stay in the country, his second return to Aden since his Saudi-led coalition
01:29retook the port city in July, or whether his visit would herald the permanent return of
01:34his exiled administration from the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
01:38US President Barack Obama has arrived in Manila for the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum summit.
01:44He is expected to hold a dialogue with hundreds of top business people around the region on
01:49Wednesday. Most heads of the 21 APEC members, except for Russian President Vladimir Putin
01:55and Indonesian President Joko Widodo, have promised to attend. In the wake of the Paris
02:00attacks, the Philippines government has beefed up security control.
02:05NBC says actor Charlie Sheen is set to make a revealing personal announcement on the Today
02:12show on Tuesday. Drug and alcohol use have marred Sheen's personal and professional life
02:18in recent years. He was kicked off CBS's Two and a Half Men in 2011 after an explosive
02:25meltdown that included calling the show's producer a contaminated little maggot. His
02:31escapades have also included the revelation that he spent more than $50,000 as a client
02:37of Heidi Fleiss' prostitution ring.
02:40And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:46to 22 degrees at night.
02:48That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news on
02:51GirlFriends.com.
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