00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulp News Update for Monday, April 11.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Dubai on Sunday launched the world's first comprehensive medical tourism portal, Dubai
00:13Health Experience.
00:15The portal promises to provide all health, travel, hospitality and visa services at the
00:21click of a button and has a target of 500,000 international medical tourists by 2020.
00:27It will enable tourists to book medical procedure packages at any of the 26 private and public
00:33hospitals in Dubai, along with special discounted airfares and visa.
00:39Al-Houthi militants and Yemeni forces have pledged to honour a UN-brokered ceasefire that
00:44took effect at midnight, adding to cautious optimism ahead of new talks to reach a lasting
00:50peace deal.
00:51Three earlier attempts at ceasefires collapsed after a Saudi-led coalition in March last
00:56year began airstrikes to push back Al-Houthis.
01:00John Kerry today became the first US Secretary of State to visit Hiroshima's atomic bomb
01:06memorial, calling it a stark and harsh reminder of the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
01:13Kerry is the highest-ranking US administration official to pay his respects at the spot in
01:18Japan where American planes launched the first nuclear attack more than 70 years ago.
01:24Dubai today announced the launch of an official measure for foreign direct investment inflows
01:29into the country.
01:30DP World Group Chairman and Chief Executive Sultan bin Sulaim announced the launch at
01:36the sixth annual investment meeting in Dubai.
01:38The UAE attracted $30 billion of FDI in 2015, according to bin Sulaim.
01:46Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate played cricket with children and mingled with
01:50Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
01:56at a glittering gala dinner in Mumbai as they began their tour of India in style on Sunday.
02:02The royal couple started their tour on a sombre note with the laying of a wreath at the Taj
02:08Mahal Palace Hotel to victims of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.
02:13They are scheduled to visit New Delhi, where they will have lunch with Prime Minister Narendra
02:17Modi.
02:18And finally, the weather.
02:19Today's high across the UAE will be 33 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.
02:25That's all for now.
02:26Thanks for watching.
02:27And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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