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00:00Good day, and welcome to the Gold News update for Thursday, June 25. Here are the top stories
00:10at this hour. More than 1,000 people have died from a recent
00:13heatwave in southern Pakistan, with thousands still being treated as temperatures started
00:18to ease. More than 40,000 people have suffered heatstroke. The government has set up 100
00:23heatstroke centers in Karachi. Daesh militants in Syria have stormed government-held neighborhoods
00:29in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern city of Hasakah, capturing several areas
00:33of the city. Thursday's attack comes after Daesh suffered several setbacks in northern
00:38Syria against Kurdish forces over the past weeks. Daesh also attacked the Kurdish stronghold
00:43of Kobani. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
00:47will fly to Vienna on Friday evening from Tehran to join nuclear talks between Iran
00:52and world powers. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is to join the talks on Friday,
00:57called on the Iranian side to address all outstanding issues.
01:01Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas was named president of the International Cricket Council
01:05for the next year at the annual conference of the sport's world-governing body in Barbados.
01:10Zaheer, 67, filled the vacancy in the largely honorary role left by Bangladeshi Mustafa
01:15Kamal, who resigned in April after falling out with the ICC's Indian chairman N. Sriranjan
01:21over who should hand out the World Cup trophy. Bobby Christina Brown has been moved to hospice
01:27care after months in the hospital and a lawsuit has been filed against her partner. Her aunt
01:31Pat Houston said Whitney Houston's daughter's condition has worsened. Brown, 22, was found
01:36face down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her Atlanta-area home in January 31. She underwent
01:42surgery to replace her breathing tube with a tracheostomy tube in February.
01:47And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:51to 28 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thank you for watching. A reminder, our next
01:56Bulletin will be on Sunday, but as always, you can get the latest news on golfnews.com.