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00:00Good day. Welcome to the GovNews update for Monday, August the 5th. Here are the top stories
00:10at this hour.
00:11Public and private schools will have uniform holidays for the academic year 2013-14. Private
00:17schools that refuse to comply with the decision will be penalized, according to Humaid Al
00:21Khatami, Minister of Education. The ministry will implement the decision at the start of
00:26the school year in September.
00:28U.S. diplomatic posts in 19 cities will continue to be closed through the end of this week,
00:33the State Department said, citing an abundance of caution.
00:37U.S. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are due to arrive in Cairo as diplomatic efforts
00:42to end Egypt's political crisis intensify. The foreign ministers of the UAE and Qatar
00:47are also involved in the diplomatic push.
00:50Syria's crisis will only be solved by stamping out terror, according to President Bashar
00:55al-Assad. In a rare speech on Syrian state television, al-Assad dismissed the political
01:00opposition to his regime as a failure that could play no role in solving the country's
01:05brutal war.
01:06The U.S. has offered Iran a willing partnership after President Hassan Rouhani was inaugurated
01:11in Tehran. The White House said Iran has a chance to allay fears over its nuclear program.
01:17Charger-based energy company Dana Gas has reported a fiscal second-quarter net profit
01:22of 100 million dirhams. Its average overall production volume rose 5% on-year in the quarter
01:28to 61,700 barrels of oil equivalent.
01:32Tiger Woods has won the Bridgestone Invitational for the eighth time, raising expectations
01:37he could end his major title drought at this week's PGA Championship.
01:41A British actor best known for playing a foul-mouthed political spin doctor was named as the new
01:46lead in BBC's Doctor Who, the long-running science fiction series that has terrified
01:51generations of children. Peter Capaldi, who is 55, will be the 12th Doctor, a time-traveling
01:57adventurer who first appeared on screens in 1963. And finally, weather. The daytime temperature
02:03will be 40 degrees Celsius, falling to 33 at night.
02:07That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news
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