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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, March the 7th.

00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:09Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses to bounce back

00:14into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio

00:20won the Republican primary in Puerto Rico, defeating frontrunner Donald Trump.

00:26Sanders' victory in Maine is his third of the weekend after winning Kansas and Nebraska.

00:33Former U.S. First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan, whose devotion to her husband made her a formidable

00:38behind-the-scenes player in his administrations, and one of the most influential presidential

00:44wives in modern times, died on Sunday at her home in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure.

00:51She was 94.

00:54India are favorites to clinch the sixth edition of the World Twenty20 in what could be a fairytale

01:00ending to the glittering career of Captain Mahindra Singh Dhoni.

01:05India, ranked number one in the world, will seek to become the first side to win the International

01:10Cricket Council title on home soil when the 16-team tournament gets underway on Tuesday.

01:18A number of high-profile entertainers, including Oprah Winfrey, Mary J. Blige, Charlize Theron,

01:24and Meryl Streep, have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to fight for gender

01:30equality across the globe.

01:33The letter states that some 62 million girls around the world are denied the right to education,

01:39500 million women can't read, and 155 countries have laws that discriminate against women.

01:48And finally, the weather.

01:49Today's high across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius, dropping to 22 degrees at night.

01:55That's all for now.

01:56Thanks for watching.

01:57And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.

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