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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, April the 9th.

00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:08The US Navy said on Saturday it had sent a carrier-led strike group to the Korean Peninsula

00:13in a show of force against North Korea's reckless nuclear weapons program.

00:17The move will raise tensions in the region and comes hard on the heels of a US missile

00:22strike on Syria that was widely interpreted as putting Pyongyang on warning over its refusal

00:27to abandon its nuclear ambitions.

00:30Residents of the Syrian town devastated by a chemical weapons attack on Tuesday said

00:34warplanes had returned to bomb them, despite a US missile barrage and warnings of possible

00:40further response.

00:41Eyewitnesses and their monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said

00:46on Saturday that fresh attacks on the area, now a virtual ghost town, had killed one woman

00:51and wounded several others.

00:53Teenagers in the UAE are buying pain relief spray, easily obtained from pharmacies in

00:58many emirates, for a cheap, low-cost high, federal health authorities warned on Saturday.

01:03But using the spray as a happy high carries dangerous side effects and its abuse is causing

01:09devastation to health and social life, the ministry warned.

01:12Abu Dhabi's property market is starting to see sell-offs and it's not just by the developers

01:17alone, according to the latest Abu Dhabi real estate update.

01:20Investors who bought from off-plan launches in the last two years are putting these up

01:25for sale in greater numbers, but thankfully, there aren't that many distressed sales happening.

01:30Calling all thronies, wondering what season 7 of Game of Thrones has in store for you?

01:35Well, Liam Cunningham, who plays Sir Davos Seaworth on the hit HBO show, says the answers

01:40lie in the official first trailer.

01:42In Dubai, attending the Middle East Film and Comic Con, Cunningham spoke about the upcoming

01:47season literally giving nothing away, but also enough to make the wait all the way until

01:52July 16th even more unbearable, if that was possible.

01:56And finally, the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius dropping

02:00to 17 degrees at night.

02:02That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com

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