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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, December 14.

00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:09Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he personally killed suspected criminals

00:14when he was mayor of Davao to set an example for police.

00:19Duterte made the comments in a speech to businessmen as he discussed his campaign

00:24to eradicate illegal drugs that has seen police and unknown assailants

00:29kill thousands of people since he became president on June 30.

00:33In Davao, I used to do it personally, just to show to the guys, the police,

00:37that if I can do it, why can't you?

00:40I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble.

00:45I was looking for a confrontation so I could kill, Duterte said.

00:50The Syrian rebel pullout from their last holdout in the city of Aleppo has been delayed.

00:56The withdrawal was supposed to start early in the morning after the rebels reached a ceasefire deal

01:02to evacuate from eastern Aleppo in what is effectively a surrender

01:07and a defining moment in Syria's civil war.

01:10Buses are prepared to move 5,000 fighters and their families to Attarib,

01:15an opposition-held town in the northwestern Aleppo countryside.

01:20A publicist says Alan Thicke, who played the likeable father on the sitcom Growing Pains,

01:25has died at age 69.

01:28Carlene Donovan, who is a publicist for Thicke's son, singer Robin Thicke,

01:32says the actor died from a heart attack on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

01:37Alan Thicke starred as Dr. Jason Seaver in the ABC series Growing Pains,

01:42which aired from 1985 until 1992.

01:47And finally, the weather.

01:48Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 15 degrees at night.

01:53That's all for now. Thanks for watching.

01:55But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com

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