00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Monday, December 25. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour.
00:08Pope Francis in his Christmas Eve Mass has urged the world not to ignore the plight of
00:13refugees who are driven from their land.
00:16Many engulfed in the ongoing migration crisis were forced to flee from leaders who see no
00:21problem in shedding innocent blood, he said.
00:24The 81-year-old Argentine pontiff, himself the grandson of Italian migrants, was addressing
00:29worshippers in St. Peter's Basilica.
00:32The UAE is expected to be one of the first countries to get 5G networks. The country's
00:37telecommunications regulatory authority on Sunday announced the launch of the technology.
00:42UAE mobile operators are expected to start deploying 5G networks from early 2018.
00:48Emirates Airlines announced today it will stop services between Tunis and Dubai starting
00:52from today. In a Twitter post, the airline said that it had made the move as instructed
00:57by the Tunisian authorities.
00:59England baseman Tom Curran will make his Test debut at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against
01:04Australia on Tuesday. He replaces Craig Overton, who has a fractured rib.
01:09Star Wars The Last Jedi is showing plenty of force at multiplexes worldwide by garnering
01:15$745.4 million globally as of Sunday.
01:20The North American take has hit $365 million in its first 10 days, with the studio projecting
01:26another $32 million on Christmas Day. That would make it the third-biggest domestic release
01:32in 2017, following Beauty and the Beast and Wonder Woman.
01:35And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:40to 18 degrees at night.
01:42That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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