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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, August the 8th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Tens of thousands of emotionally charged people from all over Tamil Nadu
00:14today paid homage to Tamil leader and DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi.
00:19The body of the 94-year-old Karunanidhi was brought to Rajaji Hall early today
00:24after it was taken to his homes for relatives and leaders to pay their last respects.
00:30After an overnight drama, the DMK won a legal battle
00:34when the Madras High Court allowed the burial of the five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu at Marina Beach.
00:41His funeral will be held at 2.30pm today, UAE time.
00:46The owners of a Dubai supercar rental business are still waiting for a British tourist
00:51to pay up 170,000 dirhams in speeding fines.
00:56The 26-year-old driver rented a yellow 1.3 million dirhams Lamborghini Huracan
01:02from the rental agency and then drove on Sheikh Zayed Road at speeds as high as 231 kmph.
01:10The speeding fines were racked up in a span of just under four hours.
01:15The US said it will begin imposing 25% duties on an additional $16 billion in Chinese imports in two weeks,
01:24escalating a trade war between the world's two biggest economies.
01:29Customs will begin collecting the duties on 279 product lines down from 284 items on the initial list as of August 23.
01:40The new list covers products ranging from motorcycles to steam turbines and railway cars.
01:47Angelina Jolie-Pitt says she warns her divorce from Brad Pitt finalized before the end of the year.
01:54The declarations came in a request for a case management hearing filed today by Jolie-Pitt's attorneys in Los Angeles Superior Court.
02:03The document says her attorneys will work with Pitt's lawyers to ensure the actors are single again in 2018.
02:11Jolie-Pitt filed for divorce nearly two years ago and currently has primary custody of their six children.
02:18And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night.
02:25That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
02:27As always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com