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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Thursday, July 21. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08Turkish authorities have imposed a three-month state of emergency, strengthening powers to
00:12round up suspects accused of staging the failed military coup despite global alarm over a
00:17widening purge. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared the state of emergency the first
00:23in Turkey in one and a half decades.
00:25US Senator Ted Cruz refused to endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the party's
00:31convention, drawing angry jeers from Trump supporters and shattering the facade of party
00:36unity that has been carefully built up in Cleveland this week. Anti-Trump Republican
00:40delegate Ken Cuccinelli said he escorted Cruz's wife, Heidi, off the floor of the Republican
00:46National Convention out of concern for her safety following her husband's speech.
00:50Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara quit the Tour de France at the end of the 17th stage
00:55to concentrate on his bid for an Olympic Games gold medal. The 35-year-old, nicknamed Spartacus,
01:01is the second high-profile rider to pull out of the Tour in two days after British sprinter
01:06Mark Cavendish withdrew to focus on his bid for a first Olympic medal.
01:10Rohit Khandelwal made history on July 19 when he was crowned Mr World 2016, becoming the
01:16first Indian and Asian to win the title at the pageant. The 26-year-old Khandelwal had
01:21earlier won the title of Mr India in 2015, prior to his big win at the Southport Theatre
01:26and Convention Centre in the UK, beating 46 other hopefuls in the contest.
01:31And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:35to 34 degrees at night.
01:37That's all for now. Thanks for watching. A reminder that our next bulletin will be
01:41on Sunday. But as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com