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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, November the 24th.

00:08Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:11Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva say they have reached a deal on Tehran's

00:15nuclear program.

00:17Iran is to curb its nuclear activities initially for six months in return for limited relief

00:22from sanctions.

00:23U.S. President Barack Obama welcomed the deal, though Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad

00:28Zarif has insisted Iran retains its right to enrich uranium.

00:33Dubai has a new police chief.

00:35His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE

00:40and ruler of Dubai, has signed an executive order appointing Mir General Qamis Matar al-Mazaina

00:45as the Commander-in-Chief of Dubai Police.

00:48The appointment takes immediate effect.

00:51A seven-year-old girl drowned in Ras al-Khaimah yesterday when she fell into a drainage pond

00:56filled with floodwater.

00:58The girl was playing unattended with friends when she slipped into the pond.

01:02More than 44,000 drivers in Dubai have been fined for using their mobile phones while

01:07driving so far this year.

01:10According to Dubai Police, drivers have ignored repeated warnings over texting or talking

01:14while driving.

01:15The fine is 200 dirhams and four black points.

01:19More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including

01:24hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says.

01:28Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, says

01:33the Oxford Research Group.

01:35The majority of children were killed by bombs or shells in their own neighbourhoods.

01:40Egypt has told the Turkish ambassador to leave the country a day after the Turkish leader

01:44called for ousted President Mohamed Morsi to be freed.

01:48Egypt's foreign minister has accused Recep Tayyip Erdogan of provocation and interfering

01:53in Egypt's internal affairs.

01:55The woman at the centre of a sexual assault scandal involving a top Indian investigative

02:00news magazine has publicly pleaded with her editor to halt what she called intimidation

02:06and harassment.

02:07Police have begun investigating Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal after the woman claimed she had

02:12been sexually assaulted twice in a hotel in Goa during a conference.

02:18In a media statement, the woman said a member of Tejpal's family had visited her mother's

02:22house in New Delhi on Friday evening and asked her mother to protect the editor.

02:27Some of the hottest Oscar contenders will lead the line-up at this year's Dubai International

02:31Film Festival from December 6 till the 14th.

02:35Omar, Palestine's entry to the Best Foreign Language category, will open the festival's

02:4010th edition on December 6.

02:43Also screening as red carpet galas over the following week are 12 Years a Slave, August

02:49Osage County, The Lunchbox, Fruitvale Station and Mary Poppins' Story, Saving Mr. Banks.

02:56Stars set to hit the red carpet include Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Mark Ruffalo, Bond

03:02Girls' Berenice Malo and Naomi Harris, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh and Irrfan Khan.

03:09And finally, the weather.

03:10Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 21 degrees at night.

03:15That's all for now.

03:16Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com

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