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New visa system in UAE from Sunday - GN Headlines

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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, October the 18th.

00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:09A new visa system in the UAE that will extend the residency period for widows, divorcees

00:15and their children without a sponsor will come into effect from Sunday.

00:19The Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship said visits and tourist visas will also be

00:24extended without the need to leave the country.

00:27Divorces or dependents who are 18 years old will get one-year visas which will be extendable

00:32for one more year.

00:33Hindu hardliners blocked intersections, threatened drivers and ordered a 12-hour strike today

00:38as they stepped up their campaign to bar women from one of India's holiest temples.

00:43The Lord Ayyappa Temple at Sabarimala in the southern state of Kerala was meant to allow

00:48women from Wednesday, but hundreds of hardliners throwing stones at baton-wielding police defied

00:53the order.

00:54Angry young men also surrounded and smashed the car windows of women television reporters

00:59and threatened others.

01:00Michael Bublé is shutting down rumors that he's going to retire from music, saying he

01:05was misquoted in a recent interview.

01:07Bublé said he is not planning on retiring anytime soon.

01:10He disputed an October 13th interview in the Daily Mail that said he would quit music after

01:15the release of his upcoming album Love, due November 16th.

01:19I'll keep going until the news of my death comes out, which will probably be fake too.

01:23The Canadian singer said with a chuckle.

01:25And finally, the weather.

01:27Today's highs across the UAE will be 34 degrees Celsius, dropping to 26 degrees at night.

01:33That's all for now and thanks for watching.

01:35We will be back with the newscast on Sunday, but you can always get the latest updates

01:39on gulfnews.com.