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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, March 15. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08The White House threw its weight behind the UK in the case of a nerve agent attack on
00:12a former spy and his daughter. It said the UK's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats
00:17in retaliation for the alleged attack was a just response. British Prime Minister Theresa
00:23May on Wednesday chucked out the diplomats in the single biggest expulsion in more than
00:2730 years.
00:28Emirates Airlines today confirmed that a member of its cabin crew fell from a parked aircraft
00:33at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on Wednesday.
00:36We can confirm that a member of our cabin crew unfortunately fell off from an open door
00:41while preparing the aircraft for boarding on flight EK729 from Entebbe on March 14,
00:47an Emirates spokesperson said. The injured crew member was brought to the nearest hospital,
00:52it said.
00:53The sports dealer Versace has said her family's luxury fashion label will no longer use real
00:57furs in its products. The Italian fashion queen and Versace's creative director said
01:02it would stop the practice without providing further details on the change.
01:07Versace had previously resisted pressure to join a host of other fashion brands, including
01:11Armani, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss and Ralph Lauren, which had all already ditched furs.
01:17And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 27 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:22to 19 degrees at night.