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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Monday, February the 16th. Here are the

00:09top stories at this hour. Egypt says it has launched airstrikes against

00:13Daesh targets in Libya after the extremist group released a grisly video showing the

00:18beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians it has held hostage for weeks. An Egyptian

00:24military spokesman said the warplanes targeted weapons caches and training camps before returning

00:29safely. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE foreign minister, has condemned the

00:34killing of the Egyptians by Daesh. Libya's air force, meanwhile, announced it had launched

00:38strikes in the eastern city of Darna, which was taken over by a Daesh affiliate last year.

00:45As more and more internationally renowned health experts with intensive experience have

00:49begun working in the UAE, hospitals have been able to set up medical precedents. This all

00:54goes well for Dubai's medical tourism initiative, which projects up to 500,000 medical visitors

00:59by 2020, who will account for an annual medical spend of 2.6 billion dirhams.

01:06Ireland caused the first upsets of the Cricket World Cup today when an audacious 92 by Paul

01:11Sterling paved the way for a four-wicket win over the West Indies at Nelson. Sterling stood

01:17in a match-defining 106-run stand with Ed Joyce for the second wicket as Ireland chased

01:22down a 305-run target with 25 balls to spare.

01:27Yuvraj Singh has emerged as the costliest cricketer in the Indian Premier League eight-players

01:32auction, bought for a record $2.57 million by the Delhi Daredevils. Yuvraj was sold after

01:38a fierce tug-of-war for his services between the Daredevils and the Royal Challengers Bangalore,

01:44who bought him last year for $2 million.

01:47Veteran French actor Louis Jourdan, who played the villain in Octopussy and who starred in

01:52Gigi, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 93. Jourdan died of natural causes at his

01:58Beverly Hills home on Saturday, author Olivier Mime said. Like his contemporaries Maurice

02:03Chevalier and Jean-Pierre Aumann, Jourdan used his Gaelic charm and good looks to conquer

02:08Hollywood. Over his decades-long career, he starred in dozens of films and TV series,

02:13acting alongside greats such as Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Shirley MacLaine.

02:18And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 29 degrees Celsius, falling

02:22to 20 tonight.

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