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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, June the 25th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:11The long-standing practice of borrowers issuing blank cheques to lenders as guarantee of payment
00:16is one of the reasons people end up in prison. That's according to Dubai police.
00:20We want to change people's and companies' mentality about cheques, said Colonel Abdullah
00:25Karim Surul, director of Al-Basha Police Station. Cheques shouldn't be used to guarantee
00:30that a certain amount will be paid, he said.
00:33Uruguay star Luis Suarez faces expulsion from the World Cup for biting, as FIFA confirmed
00:39this morning it has opened disciplinary proceedings against the player. Suarez, banned twice before
00:44for biting players, appeared to sink his teeth into defender Giorgio Chiellini during Uruguay's
00:491-0 win over Italy last night. Uruguay's win took them through to the last 16 stage at
00:55Italy's expense. Costa Rica, meanwhile, topped Group D after a goalless draw with England
01:00and will meet Greece following their shock 2-1 win over the Ivory Coast.
01:04The chairman of Arabtec has this morning denied rumours that the company was planning to delist
01:09from the Dubai financial market. Khalid Al-Khubaisi said in a statement that Arabtec will continue
01:15to exercise its work activities professionally as usual as a public joint stock company.
01:21This stock was up 0.64% to 3.10 dirhams this morning.
01:27The first US troops deployed to assist the Iraqi army in combating a growing jihadist
01:31insurgency have arrived and begun work, according to the Pentagon. Nearly half of the 300 special
01:37operations soldiers promised by US President Barack Obama are in Baghdad or on the front
01:42lines of the fight. The rest are expected within days.
01:47In Pakistan, gunmen opened fire on a passenger jet as it landed in the troubled northwest,
01:52killing a female passenger and wounding two crew. The Pakistan International Airlines
01:57flight landing in Peshawar from the Saudi capital Riyadh came under fire late last night
02:01as it descended with more than 170 passengers on board.
02:06And it's been five years since Michael Jackson died, but his career is more alive today than
02:10it has been in decades. Last month, the singer moonwalked across a Las Vegas stage in a nationally
02:16televised hologram performance. A new album recently debuted at number two on music charts,
02:21and Jackson's estate has earned more than $600 million since the king of pop's untimely
02:26death at the age of 50.
02:29And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:33to 28 tonight.
02:34That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always, you can get the latest news on
02:37gulfnews.com.