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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, December the 21st.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10A massive explosion gutted Mexico's biggest fireworks market,
00:14killing at least 31 people and injuring 72.
00:18The conflagration in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec
00:22set off a quick-fire series of multicolored blasts
00:25that sent a vast cloud of smoke billowing over the capital.
00:29The market had been packed with customers buying pyrotechnics
00:33for traditional end-of-year festivities.
00:36As President Bashar al-Assad's army closed in on the last rebel enclave in Aleppo,
00:42Russia, Iran and Turkey said they were ready to broker a Syrian peace deal.
00:48The Syrian army used loudspeakers to broadcast warnings to rebels
00:52that it was poised to enter their rapidly diminishing area during the day
00:57and told them to speed up their evacuation of the city.
01:01Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova
01:05underwent nearly four hours of surgery on her playing hand
01:09after she was stabbed by a knife-wielding intruder in her home in the Czech Republic.
01:15Doctors operated on all five fingers of her left hand.
01:19She will not be able to exert pressure on the injured hand for three months
01:24to let repairs to tendons heal.
01:27Singer Richard Marx has been hailed a hero for apparently intervening
01:31after an unruly passenger disrupted a Korean Air flight and had to be restrained.
01:37Marx and his wife Daisy Fuentes documented the incident on Facebook and Instagram.
01:43Fuentes wrote that her husband was the first to help subdue the man.
01:48Marx criticized the flight crew for failing to properly restrain the man.
01:54And finally, the weather.
01:55Today's high across the UAE will be 26 degrees Celsius, dropping to 16 degrees at night.
02:00That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
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