00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, March the 7th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses to bounce back
00:14into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio
00:20won the Republican primary in Puerto Rico, defeating frontrunner Donald Trump.
00:26Sanders' victory in Maine is his third of the weekend after winning Kansas and Nebraska.
00:33Former U.S. First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan, whose devotion to her husband made her a formidable
00:38behind-the-scenes player in his administrations, and one of the most influential presidential
00:44wives in modern times, died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure.
00:51She was 94.
00:54India are favorites to clinch the sixth edition of the World Twenty20 in what could be a fairytale
01:00ending to the glittering career of Captain Mahindra Singh Dhoni.
01:05India, ranked number one in the world, will seek to become the first side to win the International
01:10Cricket Council title on home soil when the 16-team tournament gets underway on Tuesday.
01:18A number of high-profile entertainers, including Oprah Winfrey, Mary J. Blige, Charlize Theron,
01:24and Meryl Streep, have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to fight for gender
01:30equality across the globe.
01:33The letter states that some 62 million girls around the world are denied the right to education,
01:39500 million women can't read, and 155 countries have laws that discriminate against women.
01:48And finally, the weather.
01:49Today's high across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
01:55That's all for now.
01:56Thanks for watching.
01:57And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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