00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, April 19. Here are the top stories
00:06at this hour.
00:07An Indian family which went to a police station in Dubai to report a robbery of a 40,000 dirham
00:13gold jewellery was in for a surprise. Officers at the station handed over the gold to them
00:17as a cleaner had found it among garbage. The family's housemaid had thrown out the bag
00:21thinking it contained garbage.
00:23President Donald Trump is leaving himself plenty of wiggle room when it comes to following
00:27through with a summit with the leader of North Korea. Trump told reporters he will
00:31bail out of the meeting if he decides it won't produce results.
00:34He was discussing the planned sit-down with North Korean Kim Jong-un during a joint news
00:38conference alongside Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
00:41Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to build the region's first Hyperloop line
00:46in Al-Qadir and extend it to Yas Island, Abu Dhabi airports and beyond. The company will
00:50initially construct a 10-kilometre line within Al-Qadir that is expected to be operational
00:55by 2020, a top executive said.
00:58The annual Dubai International Film Festival is taking a break this year, but it will return
01:02in 2019 for its 15th edition. The organisers of DIFF will be adopting a new approach, with
01:07the 15th edition of DIFF confirmed for 2019, a statement said. The festival will take place
01:12every two years from the 15th edition which will reflect DIFF's change strategy.
01:17And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 31 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:21to 23 degrees at night.
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