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  • 2/12/2025
Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Mexico will not pay for the wall: Foreign secretary, US Navy fires warning flare at Iran vessel in Arabian Gulf, Emirates to redeploy aircraft on newer routes, ‘Baahubali’ stars promote film in Dubai. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Good day.
00:03Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, April the 26th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary has called US President Donald Trump's plan to build
00:15a border wall an unfriendly, hostile act, a bad idea that will not accomplish anything.
00:22While Trump has asserted that he will get the US neighbor to pay for building the wall,
00:27Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray repeated in a meeting with legislators that Mexico
00:33won't pay a cent for it.
00:36The US Navy says a guided missile destroyer fired a flare toward an Iranian Revolutionary
00:42Guard vessel in a tense encounter in the Arabian Gulf.
00:46The Iranian boat came within 1,000 meters of the USS Mahan on Monday and later sailed
00:52away.
00:53The US Navy and Iran routinely have tense encounters in the waters of the Arabian Gulf.
01:00Just days after Emirates said it will be reducing its flights to five of its 12 US destinations
01:06following the electronics ban coupled with visa restrictions, its chairman says the airline
01:12would be redeploying the aircraft used on those routes to newer destinations in the
01:17Eastern Africa.
01:19We always think about what could be the new markets that we have to deploy aircraft to
01:24if that would be the case, said Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed Al Maktoum, president of Dubai Civil
01:30Aviation and chairman and chief executive of Emirates Airline and Group.
01:35He said Emirates has more than 100 destinations that it doesn't really yet fly to.
01:41It was an epic day for the fans of the Bahubali movie franchise in Dubai on Tuesday night
01:47as the stars of the record-breaking Indian period film landed in the city to promote
01:51the latest instalment, Bahubali 2, The Conclusion.
01:56Actors Prabhas, Rana Daggubati and Anushka Shetty attended a press conference and then
02:01interacted with pre-selected fans at the Roxy Cinemas at City Walk, Dubai.
02:08And finally, the weather.
02:09Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping to 25 degrees at night.
02:14That's all for now.
02:15Thanks for watching.
02:16But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com

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