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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, August the 21st.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Daesh was the likely perpetrator of a
00:14bomb attack that killed at least 30 people at a wedding in Gaziantep, near the Syrian
00:19border.
00:20The explosion was the latest attack to rock the key NATO member in a horrific year that
00:25has seen strikes blamed on Kurdish and Islamist militants as well as a bloody July 15th botched
00:32coup.
00:33President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to withdraw the Philippines from the United Nations
00:38as he launched another profanity-laced raid against it for criticizing his war on crime.
00:45More than 1,500 people have been killed since Duterte took office and immediately began
00:50his law and order crackdown, according to police statistics.
00:54Lou Perlman, credited for starting the boy-band craze and launching the careers of the Backstreet
01:00Boys and NSYNC, has died in prison while serving a 25-year sentence for a massive Ponzi scheme.
01:08The Orlando Sentinel reports that, according to a federal inmate database, Perlman, 62,
01:14died on Friday.
01:16Perlman's $300 million Ponzi scheme through his transcontinental companies was uncovered
01:22in 2006 and he was convicted of fraud in 2008.
01:27Hundreds of lawsuits were filed in the Mughals' case, including one by the Backstreet Boys.
01:33And finally, the weather.
01:34Today's high across the UAE will be 46 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.
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