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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, December 15. Here are the top

00:10stories at this hour.

00:13The UAE Ministry of Health has reduced prices of 142 medicines. The price reductions, ranging

00:20from 2 to 66 percent, will come into effect from January 1, officials said.

00:26It was the sixth price reduction initiative, which will cover drugs of 24 pharmaceutical

00:31companies in the UAE.

00:34The EU is set to unveil controversial proposals for a new border and coastguard agency in

00:40response to Europe's refugee crisis, with powers to intervene even when the host country

00:46does not consent.

00:48The new 1,000-strong force is aimed at slowing the record flow of nearly one million refugees

00:54to Europe this year, mainly from the war in Syria.

00:58But some member states in the 28-nation European Union are hostile to a plan which could see

01:04them cede sovereignty over their own land and sea borders to bureaucrats in Brussels.

01:10In sport, the Micromax Indian Aces were joined by the Philippine Mavericks as winners on

01:15the opening day of the International Premier Tennis League at the Dubai Tennis Stadium

01:20yesterday.

01:21The Indian Aces powered their way to a swift 25-18 win over legendary Japan warriors, while

01:27the Mavericks found a hero in big-serving Ivo Karlovic, who stunned the home team's

01:32marquee player Roger Federer to close out a 26-24 win against the OBI UAE Royals.

01:40Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho watched his team suffer a 2-1 loss at table-topping Leicester

01:45City on Monday night and said he felt ashamed at their lowly Premier League position and

01:51betrayed by his players.

01:53The champions have now lost nine of their 16 league games and stand one point above

01:58the relegation zone in the 16th place.

02:02The next generation of Star Wars films kicked off with an elaborate debut for The Force

02:07Awakens in Los Angeles on Monday that served as a proverbial passing of the lightsaber

02:12to new groups of fighters dueling in a cinematic galaxy far away.

02:18The world's first screening of the seventh Star Wars film attracted a constellation of

02:22stars and despite being in charge of The Force Awakens for the past three years, director

02:28J.J. Abrams seemed overwhelmed by the banditry of the premiere.

02:33The Vice Sheikh Zayed Road had a starring role in the first trailer for Star Trek Beyond

02:37that released today.

02:39It was revealed that the film was the most expensive one to have been shot in the Emirate.

02:45The trailer for the third Star Trek film shows the towers of Sheikh Zayed Road clad in mist

02:50and a crash site at the IFC.

02:52Jamal Al Sharif, chairman of the Dubai Film and Television Commission, told Tabloid that

02:56the filming here in October cost $32 million.

03:01And finally, the weather.

03:02Today's high across the UAE will be 25 degrees Celsius, dropping to 19 degrees at night.

03:08That's all for now.

03:09Thanks for watching.

03:10And as always, you can get the latest news on Gulfnews.com.

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