00:00Several mosques in Abu Dhabi will offer Friday sermons in English, French, Mandarin and Urdu
00:13for non-Arabic speaker worshippers.
00:15The move is part of the new plans for the next year approved by the UAE Cabinet.
00:20Worshippers will also be able to receive interpretation of the sermon via a smartphone application
00:25and TV screens posted at these mosques.
00:27US President Donald Trump has spoken with King Salman of Saudi Arabia to express solidarity
00:33after a ballistic missile was fired at the country.
00:36The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed al-Houthis in Yemen says it intercepted the
00:40missile Tuesday over southern Riyadh.
00:43Al-Houthis said they were targeting a top leadership meeting in the Saudi capital.
00:47An Indian court has acquitted a former telecoms minister, politicians and business executives
00:52of graft and money laundering charges in the grant of telecoms licenses.
00:56The verdict came due to lack of evidence in one of the country's biggest corruption
00:59scandals.
01:00Shares of companies affected by the case rose after the verdict, with Reliance Communications
01:05gaining as much as 13.3%.
01:07A woman has sued the rapper Nelly, claiming he sexually assaulted her on his tour bus
01:12and later damaged her reputation by refuting her account.
01:15The Seattle Times said Monique Greene's lawsuit against Nelly seeks unspecified damages.
01:20The rapper was arrested on his tour bus in a suburban Seattle Walmart parking lot in
01:24October.
01:25Finally, the weather.
01:26Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night.
01:31That's all for now.
01:32Thanks for watching.
01:33We will be back with a newscast on Sunday.
01:36But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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