00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, February 20. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08Dubai's private schools can increase fees ranging from 2.4% to 4.8% for the academic
00:14year 2017-18, depending on their inspection rating. The Knowledge and Human Development
00:20Authority said the Dubai Statistics Center has set the new annual education cost index
00:25at 2.4%, and the increases were based on the index.
00:29The 13th edition of International Defense Exhibition and the 4th edition of Naval Defense
00:33Exhibition got underway in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. On the first day, organizers at IDEX announced
00:39deals worth 4.5 billion dirhams for the supply of military equipment to the UAE armed forces.
00:46The opening ceremony was attended by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice
00:51President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed
00:56bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed
01:01Forces.
01:02A day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related security incident in Sweden,
01:07President Donald Trump said his comment was based on a television report. Trump told a
01:12rally on Saturday that Sweden was having serious problems with immigrants.
01:16"'You look at what's happening last night in Sweden,' Trump told the audience, prompting
01:20the country's baffled government asking the U.S. State Department to explain.
01:24"'My statement as to what's happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was
01:29broadcast on Fox News concerning immigrants and Sweden,' Trump said in a tweet on Sunday."
01:34Mariah Carey will perform at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre as part of Emirates Airline Dubai
01:40Jazz Festival on Thursday. She'll share a three-day bill with Tom Jones and Enrique Iglesias,
01:45who will take the stage on Wednesday and Friday, respectively.
01:49Carey's Dubai performance will be only her second in the city. Her first was in 2004.
01:54England all-rounder Ben Stokes became the most expensive foreign player in Indian Premier League
02:00history when he was bought by the rising Pune Giants for more than $2 million at auction today.
02:06The 25-year-old fetched seven times the amount of England's limited overs captain Ewain Morgan,
02:12who was sold to the King Six Punjab for $300,000 in the auction.
02:17The winning bid shattered the previous record paid for a foreign cricketeer, which was set in 2014
02:23when the Delhi Daredevils paid 90 million rupees for Kevin Peterson. Barcelona boss
02:28Luis Enrique labelled harsh treatment dished out to his players by Barca fans nonsensical,
02:34as the Spanish champion squeezed past Ligon's 2-1 on Sunday.
02:38Following a 4-0 thrashing by Paris Saint-Germain, Barca needed a last-minute Lionel Messi penalty
02:45to see off a Ligon side without a win since November. Messi had given Barca a fourth-minute
02:50lead, but jeers rang around the Camp Nou when Unai Lopez levelled 19 minutes from time.
02:56And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 22 degrees Celsius,
03:01dropping to 15 degrees at night. That's all for now, thanks for watching,
03:05and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
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