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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, July the 14th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour. Egypt's new prime minister has planned further
00:14talks today on forming a cabinet as prosecutors looked at criminal complaints against ousted
00:19President Mohamed Morsi and members of his Muslim Brotherhood.
00:24A father and his two sisters are facing charges of brutally attacking his five daughters,
00:28aged 10 to 16, burning their bodies with cigarette butts, breaking their noses, and hitting their
00:33heads against the wall in their home in Ajman. The 35-year-old Jordanian, who works as a
00:38jail warden at Sharjah Prison, did not explain why he abused his daughters.
00:43Saudi Arabia is urging elderly and chronically ill Muslims not to perform Hajj to curb the
00:48spread of the MERS coronavirus, which has killed 38 in the kingdom. People with immunity
00:54deficiency as well as children and pregnant women are also listed, according to a ministry
00:59statement. The last opposition-held areas of Homs are
01:03set to fall within days to the Syrian army after rebel forces decided to sacrifice the
01:08country's third-largest city to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to the Sunday
01:12Times. A Florida jury has found neighborhood watchman
01:16George Zimmerman not guilty of murdering unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman,
01:2229, had been accused of pursuing Martin, 17, through a gated community in Sanford,
01:27Florida, and shooting him during an altercation in February last year.
01:33Australian teenager Ashton Ager, who played a record-breaking innings as a No. 11, will
01:37have to produce more heroics today if his side are to win the first Ashes Test against
01:42England. The tourists need 137 runs to win, having lost six wickets in their second innings.
01:49Glee star Cory Monteith, 31, was found dead on Saturday at the Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver,
01:55Canada. Police said, the cause of death was not immediately apparent, but there were no
02:00signs of foul play. And finally, weather. The daytime temperature
02:04will be 49 degrees Celsius, falling to 30 at night.
02:08That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:11at gulfnews.com.