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

00:05Here are the top stories at the Salon.

00:08After a tumultuous election campaign filled with scandal and surprises, the French public

00:13began to vote on whether a pro-European Union centrist or an anti-EU, anti-immigration far-rightist

00:19will lead them for the next five years.

00:22Opinion polls indicate they will pick Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old ex-economy minister

00:27who wants to bridge the left-right divide.

00:29Nigeria's president says he will meet the 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed this weekend after

00:35being kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram.

00:38President Mohamed Buhari said in a statement that he will receive the released schoolgirls

00:43in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.

00:45Fighting subsided in Syria after a deal signed by government backers Russia and Iran and

00:50rebel supporter Turkey to create four de-escalation zones began to take effect.

00:55The multi-phase plan, signed in the Kazakh capital Astana, is one of the more ambitious

01:00efforts to end Syria's six-year conflict.

01:03India will participate in next month's Champions Trophy in England and Wales, the country's

01:07cricket board said after a special general meeting.

01:10Holders India did not submit a squad for the one-day international tournament by an April

01:1525 deadline after the BCCI failed in a bid to halt a new revenue model being adopted

01:20by the International Cricket Council.

01:22Justin Bieber held an all-ages concert in Dubai on Saturday night, four years since

01:28his last performances in the city.

01:30During his 2013 shows, Bieber was hours late to the stage.

01:34But the 23-year-old showed up just after 8pm this time and played more than an hour and

01:39a half of his biggest hits.

01:41And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius dropping

01:46to 31 degrees at night.

01:47That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news

01:52at gulfnews.com

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