00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Tuesday, October the 24th, here are the
00:07top stories at this hour.
00:09Apple Pay, the company's digital wallet, launches in the UAE today. Anyone using credit
00:13cards from six UAE banks, Mashriq, Emirates NBD, Emirates Islamic, RAK Bank, HSBC or Standard
00:20Chartered, and having an iPhone 6 or later, will be able to use Apple Pay.
00:25Apple Pay can be used anywhere that uses a contactless payment terminal, such as the
00:29wireless credit card readers available in most retailers around the UAE.
00:34Iraq's Kurdistan region accused Iraqi forces of launching an attack in the direction of
00:39the Turkish border, where a section of the Kurdish oil export pipeline is located.
00:44An Iraqi military spokesman denied clashes happened in the region of Rabia, located south
00:49of the Feshkhabur border area, held by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
00:55Xi Jinping has been consecrated as China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, after
01:00a new body of political thought carrying his name was added to the Communist Party's constitution.
01:06The symbolic move came on the final day of a week-long political summit in Beijing, the
01:1019th Party Congress. At a closing ceremony in the Mao-era Great Hall of the People, it
01:16was announced that Xi's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era
01:22had been written into the party charter.
01:25Continuing the tradition of releasing his films on the festive occasion of Eid, Bollywood
01:29superstar Salman Khan has booked the auspicious date for his 2019 release titled Bharat. The
01:35film, an official adaptation of 2014 South Korean film Ojj to My Father, will be shot
01:41partly in Abu Dhabi.
01:43And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:48to 24 degrees at night.
01:49That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
01:54on Kulknews.com
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