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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday August 20th. Here are the top stories
00:09at this hour.
00:10The operation to retake the town of Tal Afar west of Mosul from Daesh began this morning,
00:15Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said. Tal Afar and the surrounding area is one of
00:20the last pockets of Daesh-held territory in Iraq after victory was declared in July in
00:24Mosul.
00:25The town, about 150km east of the Syrian border, sits along a major road that was once a key
00:29Daesh supply route.
00:31Dubai residents can now digitally register their Ejari tenancy contracts to complete
00:36transactions with several government entities in one go, without the need to submit physical
00:41documents in multiple places.
00:44The Ejari Smart App of Dubai Land Department has been linked with nine other government
00:48departments to integrate services that require a registered Ejari contract. Ejari is required
00:53for services of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, residency visa renewal and
00:58other government transactions.
01:00Rapper, record producer Jay-Z has revealed what led to the fallout with his former best
01:05friend and rapper Kanye West. Speaking on a podcast, Jay-Z said Kanye angered him by
01:10bringing up his wife Beyonce Knowles and daughter Blue Ivy in one of his infamous on-stage rants.
01:16''What really hurt me is you can't bring my kids and my wife into it. Kanye's my little
01:20brother, he's talked about me a hundred times. He made a song called Big Brother,'' he said.
01:25And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE, with 46 degrees Celsius dropping
01:28to 32 degrees at night.
01:30That's all for now, thank you for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
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