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00:00Good Day, Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, October 28.

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

00:12An innovation hub that includes projects worth 4.5 billion dirhams was launched on Monday

00:17by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister

00:21of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

00:23The announcement was made by Sheikh Mohammed at a ceremony to celebrate the 15th anniversary

00:27of Dubai Internet City.

00:29The funds have been allocated to develop infrastructure projects and innovation complexes

00:34on an area of 10 million square feet, Sheikh Mohammed said.

00:38Dubai will impose a charge on waste by the first half of next year, a senior official

00:42said on Monday.

00:44Commercial and industrial waste will be charged per ton, Abdul Majid Saifi, Director of Dubai

00:49Municipality's Waste Management Department, said.

00:52Egypt's President expanded the powers of the country's armed forces Monday to enable the

00:57prosecution of civilians in military courts.

01:00The measures by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi allows the military to try civilians for a

01:04wide variety of crimes, including destroying public property and blocking roads.

01:09The secular Nida Tunis party won the largest number of seats in Tunisia's parliamentary

01:13elections, defeating the Islamist Al Nada party.

01:17Al Nada's leader, Rashid Ghanoushi, called Beji Ghaid al-Sefsi, the 87-year-old leader

01:21of Nida Tunis, on Monday to congratulate him.

01:25Devendra Fadnavis, the BJP's 44-year-old chief of Maharashtra, is expected to be chosen

01:29as the state's next chief minister at a meeting today.

01:32A grand swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to take place on Friday at Mumbai's Vankati Stadium.

01:38Sport and French legend Zinedine Zidane and his club Real Madrid are embroiled in an embarrassing

01:42dispute with the Spanish Football Federation.

01:45According to Spanish media, the federation handed Zidane a three-month coaching ban for

01:49not possessing required coaching qualifications.

01:53The winner of the Funniest Person in the World competition is a brown-haired, slightly

01:56rotund stand-up comic from Finland, who boasts he has hit on the perfect solution to the

02:02planet's international monetary woes.

02:04In second place was Saad Haroon of Pakistan, while Nitin Mirani from the UAE was fourth.

02:09And finally, the weather.

02:10Today's high across the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, dropping to 26 degrees at night.

02:16That's all for now.

02:17Thanks for watching.

02:18And as always, you can get the latest news at Gulfnews.com.

02:23And as always, thanks for watching.

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