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Costa Rica declares emergency over hurricane - GN Headlines

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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday November 24th. Here are the top

00:06stories at this hour. Iraqi security forces and an allied Shiite

00:11militia have completely encircled the city of Mosul while the troops continued operations

00:15to clear Daesh. The militia has been closing in on Ta Afar, a city west of Mosul, in an

00:21effort to cut off Daesh's supply route. Costa Rica declared a national emergency hours

00:26before a Caribbean hurricane that was expected to rip into it and neighbouring Nicaragua

00:30today. It will be the first time Costa Rica takes a direct hit from a hurricane since

00:35records began in 1851. Hurricane Otto was packing sustained winds

00:39of 140km per hour that were forecast to strengthen further before landfall. Both countries issued

00:45red alerts for the areas to be worst hit, evacuated thousands of people and ordered

00:49the closure of schools. Britain's Sir Elton John will not perform

00:52at the inauguration of Donald Trump as US President. The decision announced by John's

00:56publicist counters a Trump adviser's claim that John would be performing. John performed

01:01at fundraisers for Hillary Clinton during the US presidential election campaign.

01:05And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE. It will be 29 degrees Celsius, dropping

01:09to 23 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thank you for watching. We will be back with

01:15the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest news on gulfnews.com