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00:00Good day.

00:03Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, November the 16th.

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

00:09Sweden announced that tough prosecutor Krister Pettersson will relaunch the probe into the

00:141986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme.

00:18Still a mystery three decades on, despite countless leads.

00:22Palme was gunned down in the street after leaving a Stockholm cinema with his wife,

00:27a killing that sent shockwaves through the tranquil Scandinavian nation.

00:32The gunman ran off with the murder weapon.

00:35Despite more than 10,000 people being questioned and 134 claiming responsibility for the crime,

00:41the case has never been solved.

00:43US Secretary of State John Kerry said Yemen's Houthi group and the Saudi-led coalition fighting

00:50it had agreed to a ceasefire from Thursday.

00:53As Washington presses for an end to the war before President Barack Obama leaves office,

00:59the internationally recognized Yemeni government quickly rejected the move, complaining of

01:04being bypassed.

01:05But it may have little choice if Saudi Arabia, which supports President Abd Rabbo Mansour

01:11Hadi, militarily and financially throws its weight behind the move.

01:16The UAE secured a precious 2-0 victory over Iraq in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

01:23on Tuesday night to put themselves back in contention in the campaign.

01:29On a nerve-shredding night at the Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, victory was

01:33sealed by Ahmed Khalil's wonderful volley and substitute Ismail Matar's injury-time

01:39finish.

01:41It's going to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

01:45Mary Poppins, the multi-award-winning musical by Disney and producer Cameron McIntosh, is

01:50coming to Dubai Opera next year.

01:53The musical will run from May 1 to 18, 2017.

01:57Tickets go on sale on November 27 on DubaiOpera.com.

02:02And finally, the weather.

02:03Today's high across the UAE will be 30 degrees Celsius, dropping to 19 degrees at night.

02:09That's all for now.

02:10Thanks for watching.

02:11As always, you can get the latest news on girlsnews.com.

Sweden to reopen Olof Palme murder case - GN Headlines

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