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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, May the 28th. Here are the top

00:10stories at this hour. Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is to stand down from his role

00:16as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU. Observers say Blair's

00:22tenure was viewed largely as a failure, with many saying he was too comfortable with the

00:26Israelis and that the Palestinians never felt he put in enough hours in the job. Indians

00:32were doing whatever they could to stay cool amid a brutal heatwave that has killed more

00:36than 1,400. Most of the heat-related deaths so far have occurred in the southern states

00:41of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where temperatures have soared up to 47 degrees Celsius. As many

00:48as 22 people in South Korea and four US lab workers may have been exposed to anthrax after

00:54the American military accidentally shipped out at least one live sample, officials said.

00:59The four lab employees were undergoing medical treatment as a precaution after the military

01:03sent the sample inside the country to a commercial lab in Maryland. FIFA's veteran president

01:09Seb Blatter faced angry demands to resign after US indictments and arrests of top lieutenants

01:14engulfed the football supremo in crisis are heading into the annual congress. As Blatter

01:19prepared to open the congress in Switzerland, top sponsors who pour millions into world

01:24football, including Coca-Cola, Adidas, McDonald's and Visa, pressed the global body to clean

01:29itself up. FIFA was adamant that despite the arrests of seven officials in a luxury Zurich

01:35hotel, its congress and leadership vote would go ahead as planned this week. Bollywood actor

01:41Salman Khan has arrived in Dubai ahead of the first edition of Arab Indo Bollywood Awards

01:46on Friday. Khan, who currently has a suspended five-year sentence for a 2002 hit-and-run

01:52case, was granted permission to travel overseas by the Bombay High Court. And finally, the

01:58weather today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping to 25 degrees

02:04at night. That's all for now. Thank you for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin

02:08will be on Sunday, but as always, you can get the latest news on golfnews.com.

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