00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, December 19. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour. More than 1,000 people were evacuated from
00:09the last rebel-held pocket of Syria's Aleppo early today after hours of delay. More than
00:1530 buses packed with people had waited overnight in freezing temperatures to leave Aleppo under
00:20a complex evacuation deal. The UN Security Council will vote tonight on a French-drafted
00:25resolution to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo, with Russia cautiously backing
00:31the measure. Zaza Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress
00:34and socialite who helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages and jaded
00:38wisdom about glamorous life, died Sunday at the age of 99. Gabor had been hospitalized
00:43repeatedly since she broke her right hip in July 2010 after a fall at her Los Angeles
00:48home. The great-aunt of Paris Hilton and a spiritual matriarch to the Kardashians and
00:52other tabloid favorites, Gabor was the original Hall of Mirror celebrity, famous just for
00:57being famous. Security forces have arrested more than 300 people during protests and lootings
01:02over the elimination of Venezuela's largest currency bill, President Nicolas Maduro said
01:07on Sunday. Venezuela pulled the 100 BolĂvar note last week before new bills were in circulation,
01:12creating a national cash shortage on top of a brutal economic crisis. After two days of
01:17unrest, Maduro on Saturday postponed the measure until January 2.
01:21Puerto Rico's Stephanie Del Val was crowned Miss World 2016 on Sunday, winning the top
01:27prize in the 66th edition of the pageant held this year in the United States. The first
01:32runner-up was Yaritza Miguelina Reyes Ramirez of the Dominican Republic. Indonesia's Natasha
01:37Manuela took third place. Grammy-winning singer Mark Antony and his wife announced Sunday
01:42that they are divorcing after a two-year marriage. A decision to end the marriage was made mutually
01:47by Antony, a New York-born singer of Puerto Rican roots, and Shana Del Lima, a Venezuelan
01:51model. And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, with 26 degrees Celsius dropping
01:56to 17 degrees at night. That's all for now, thank you for watching. As always, you can
02:00get the latest news on golfnews.com.
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