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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, June the 21st. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour. A UAE resident who unknowingly paid a quarter of a million dirhams for a
00:15fake online degree has urged authorities to take action. AH, an Emirati who requested
00:21not to reveal his full name, found out that his 250,000 dirham online degree was fake
00:27after the scandal of a Pakistani IT company, Xact, surfaced in May. AH says he applied
00:33for a PhD at the Grand Town University after an ad appeared on his Facebook page. Hollywood
00:39actress and director Angelina Jolie has described a spiraling global refugee crisis as an explosion
00:46of human suffering, whose causes the international community refuses to confront. Jolie, who
00:51serves as a UN special envoy for refugees, was speaking at a news conference on Saturday
00:56in Turkey, home to Syrians and Iraqis displaced by war, on World Refugee Day. Millions of
01:04yoga enthusiasts bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures across India and much
01:09of the world today to mark the first International Yoga Day. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
01:14who had lobbied the UN to declare June 21st as a global yoga day, spread his mat among
01:19rows of people. Similar events were held in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Beijing, Manila
01:26and other places. Argentina marked Lionel Messi's 100th cap with a 1-0 win over Jamaica
01:32to reach the Copa America quarterfinals as Uruguay advanced to the last eight. Striker
01:38Gonzalo Higuain rifled home the only goal for Argentina as the tournament favorites
01:43downed the reggae boys to clinch top spot in Group B. And finally, weather. Today's
01:48high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night. That's all
01:54for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.