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Afghan presidential election deadlock ends - GN Midday

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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, September the 21st.

00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:12Cityscape Global 2014 opened this morning in Dubai with organizers projecting 35,000

00:18people to attend this year's show.

00:21Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed Al Maktoum, head of Dubai's Supreme Fiscal Committee, opened

00:25the three-day event at the Dubai World Trade Center.

00:28The property and real estate exhibition has grown by over 25 percent in space compared

00:34to last year, according to organizers.

00:38Dubai is planning to regulate how homes and businesses can install solar panels to generate

00:43their own electricity and feed extra power into the main grid.

00:48The rules are expected to take into account whether any financial incentive could be given

00:53to solar energy users, according to an official at Dubai Electricity and Water Authority.

01:00In an interview before making his world debut at the United Nations at the end of this month,

01:05Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has said that followers of the Muslim Brotherhood

01:10could participate in politics in the future if they renounce violence.

01:15Parliamentary elections are to be held in Egypt by the year-end, he said.

01:19The Brotherhood and its political party, however, have been banned from the elections.

01:25Yemen's top security body imposed an overnight curfew in restive areas of Sana'a yesterday.

01:31The move came after Al-Houthi rebels took over the state television building in the

01:36Yemeni capital amid heavy clashes and the UN envoy to the country signalled that a deal

01:42had been reached to end the violence.

01:46Rival candidates in the bitterly disputed Afghan presidential election signed an agreement

01:51on a unity government today, potentially easing months of tension that destabilised Afghanistan.

01:58As part of a power-sharing deal, former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani will become the

02:03new president and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah chief executive with newly

02:08expanded powers.

02:11And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 37 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:16to 29 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can

02:21get the latest news at gulfnews.com.