00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, April 11. Here are the top
00:06stories at this hour.
00:08Saturday, April 14 will be a holiday for the public sector in the UAE for Al-Isra Wal-Miraj.
00:15The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources made the announcement today. Al-Isra
00:19Wal-Miraj is observed annually on the 27th day of the Islamic month of Rajab.
00:25Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg battered away aggressive questioning from US lawmakers last
00:30night. The lawmakers have accused Zuckerberg of failing to protect the personal information
00:34of millions of Americans from Russians' intent on upsetting the US election. During some
00:40five hours of Senate questioning, he apologized several times for Facebook's failures. But
00:45senators seemed unimpressed, pointing out that his company had a 14-year history of
00:50apologizing for ill-advised decisions related to user privacy.
00:56The six new major licensing blocks announced by AdNoc contained multi-billions of barrels
01:01of oil and multi-trillions of cubic feet of gas. Abdul Muneen Saif Al-Khinde, director
01:06of AdNoc's upstream directorate, said that full data would be presented following a series
01:11of roadshows beginning in Abu Dhabi on April 23. The roadshows will continue in Europe,
01:17the US and Asia in May.
01:20Jean-Paul Voltaire and Roberto Cavalli are in Saudi Arabia headlining the kingdom's
01:24first ever Arab Fashion Week. The event opened on Tuesday to equal parts excitement and controversy.
01:31Two weeks later than initially planned, the Saudi Arabian edition of Arab Fashion Week
01:35joins designers from Europe and the Arab world over the course of four days. The Riyadh shows
01:41are not open to cameras and attendees remain women only.
01:45And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 33 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:50to 27 degrees at night.
01:52That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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