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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, June 22. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:11An intense heatwave killed more than 140 people over the weekend in Pakistan's southern city
00:16of Karachi as the electricity grid crashed during the first days of Ramadan. The outages
00:21hit large portions of Pakistan's financial heart and helped 20 million people where residents
00:26lit bonfires in protest. The temperature has soared to the mid 40s. Six Taliban gunmen
00:31who attacked the Afghan parliament have been killed, police said, nearly two hours after
00:35lawmakers were forced to flee by a large explosion and gunfire. One Taliban fighter driving a
00:41car detonated a bomb outside parliament gates and six others took up positions near the
00:45building. Afghan forces killed six of them and all lawmakers were safe. Hours after pop
00:51superstar Taylor Swift criticized a giant tech company in an open letter posted online,
00:56Apple announced that it will pay royalties to artists and record labels for music played
01:00during a free three-month trial of its new streaming music service. Apple had already
01:05agreed to share revenue from paid subscriptions to the new Apple Music service, which will
01:09cost $10 a month. But Swift said she would withhold her latest album from the service
01:15because Apple wasn't planning to pay artists and labels directly for the use of their music
01:19during the free introductory period. We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask
01:24us to provide you with our music for no compensation, Swift wrote in an open letter posted on her
01:28Tumblr page under the heading to Apple Love Taylor. Jordan Spieth followed up a historic
01:34Masters triumph by emerging from a crowded leaderboard in the final round to claim his
01:38first US Open crown. The 21-year-old Texan's stunning one-stroke victory over fellow American
01:44Dustin Johnson and South African Louis O.S. Thezen at Chambers Bay Golf Course gets Spieth
01:50halfway home to an unprecedented calendar year Grand Slam. And finally, the weather.
01:54Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping to 30 degrees at night.
02:00That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can get the latest news on
02:03gulfnews.com.