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Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News.  Hugo Chavez dies after two-year cancer battle. French expat wins Dh1 million with Gulf News. Suspects in Kuwaiti student's death admit beating him to death. Raqqa, Syria bombed after rebels take city. Dow Jones rises to record high, Real Madrid beat Manchester United. Jon Stewart to take break from Daily Show, directs, produces movie.

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00:00Good day! Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, March the 6th. Here are the

00:10top stories at this hour. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has died

00:15after a two-year battle with cancer, ending 14 years of rule that won him passionate support

00:20among the poor. The 58-year-old had undergone four operations in Cuba for a cancer that

00:26was first detected in mid-2011. He vanished from public view after surgery in December

00:31that resulted in complications and respiratory infections.

00:34Vice President Nicolás Maduro will be the interim president till elections are held

00:39within 30 days. It took a while for French expat Nassim Haider

00:43to feel assured that the call he received on Tuesday morning was genuine, that he had

00:47won one million dirhams in the Gulf News mega-subscription 2013 promotions. Haider, who was born in Karachi

00:53and raised in Paris, said he never won a raffle before. The Gulf News mega-subscription

00:58is an annual promotion giving subscribers a chance to win a variety of prizes, including

01:03the one million dirham award for one subscriber. The suspects in the torture death of a Kuwaiti

01:08student of the University of Sharjah said they had beaten the 19-year-old over a period

01:12of three days for allegedly harassing one of their female relatives. It is understood

01:17that Mubarak Mishael Mubarak was accused of harassing the sister of one of the three suspects.

01:22Authorities indicated this explains why the victim maintained his silence despite four

01:26days of torture. Syrian warplanes have bombed the northern

01:29city of Raqqa, hours after reports said rebels had overrun it. Meanwhile, US Secretary of

01:34State John Kerry said Washington was increasingly confident that weapons being sent to the Syrian

01:39opposition by other countries were going to moderate forces. Iraq's Interior Ministry

01:44said it had foiled an attempt by Syrian gunmen to infiltrate its territory, amid growing

01:48signs that Syria's civil war was spilling over into its eastern neighbor. In business,

01:53the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.5% on Tuesday to close at an all-time high of

01:5814,253.77 points. The previous record was set in 2007.

02:04Sport and Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was too distraught to face the media

02:09after seeing his side beaten by Real Madrid in the Champions League last night. Real will

02:14be joined in the quarterfinals by Borussia Dortmund.

02:17In entertainment, Jon Stewart will take a break from The Daily Show starting in June

02:20to direct and produce his first feature film. Rosewater was written by Stewart and is based

02:25on a book by Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was falsely accused of being a spy imprisoned

02:31by Iran in 2009. Finally, weather. Today's high across the

02:35UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, falling to 15 degrees at night.

02:40That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news at

02:43gulfnews.com.

Hugo Chavez dies - GN Midday Wednesday March 6 2013

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