00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, May the 7th.
00:05Here are the top stories at the Salon.
00:08After a tumultuous election campaign filled with scandal and surprises, the French public
00:13began to vote on whether a pro-European Union centrist or an anti-EU, anti-immigration far-rightist
00:19will lead them for the next five years.
00:22Opinion polls indicate they will pick Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old ex-economy minister
00:27who wants to bridge the left-right divide.
00:29Nigeria's president says he will meet the 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed this weekend after
00:35being kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram.
00:38President Mohamed Buhari said in a statement that he will receive the released schoolgirls
00:43in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
00:45Fighting subsided in Syria after a deal signed by government backers Russia and Iran and
00:50rebel supporter Turkey to create four de-escalation zones began to take effect.
00:55The multi-phase plan, signed in the Kazakh capital Astana, is one of the more ambitious
01:00efforts to end Syria's six-year conflict.
01:03India will participate in next month's Champions Trophy in England and Wales, the country's
01:07cricket board said after a special general meeting.
01:10Holders India did not submit a squad for the one-day international tournament by an April
01:1525 deadline after the BCCI failed in a bid to halt a new revenue model being adopted
01:20by the International Cricket Council.
01:22Justin Bieber held an all-ages concert in Dubai on Saturday night, four years since
01:28his last performances in the city.
01:30During his 2013 shows, Bieber was hours late to the stage.
01:34But the 23-year-old showed up just after 8pm this time and played more than an hour and
01:39a half of his biggest hits.
01:41And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius dropping
01:46to 31 degrees at night.
01:47That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news
01:52at gulfnews.com
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