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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, January the 28th.

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

00:08A metro link connecting Sharjah with Dubai's Green Line could reduce traffic on congested

00:14highways by more than 30% a new study has found.

00:17Conducted by global transport planning firm Oricon, the study highlights the economic

00:22impact of congestion between the two emirates.

00:26It shows how a direct link between Al Qaeda metro station and Sharjah city centre could

00:31offset at least a third of the current traffic problems.

00:36Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn has quit as finance chairman of the Republican Party's

00:42fundraising arm.

00:43The resignation comes a day after a newspaper reported that he routinely subjected women

00:48who worked for him to unwanted sexual advances.

00:52The billionaire has denied the accusations but said he was resigning to avoid unnecessary

00:57distraction.

00:59Comic strip artist Mort Walker, a World War II veteran who tickled millions of readers

01:04with the antics of the lazy private Beatle Bailey, died on Saturday.

01:09Walker, who was 94, died at his home in Connecticut.

01:13Walker began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half dozen

01:19comic strips in his career.

01:21And finally, the weather.

01:22Today's high across the UAE will be 24 degrees Celsius, dropping to 17 degrees at night.

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