Jumeirah corniche to open in October - GN Midday
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, August the 24th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour. A major facelift of Dubai's 14-kilometre
00:14stretch of beachfront in Jumeirah is set for completion within months. All major work on
00:20phase two of the Jumeirah Corniche has been completed and the 100 million dirham project
00:25will be fully open to the public by October, Gulf News can confirm.
00:31Phase one of the project in Umsuqeim opened last month.
00:36Foreign ministers from five Arab countries are gathering today in Jeddah to discuss the
00:40situation in Syria and Egypt. The UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt will also discuss
00:47the rise of Islamist militants across the region. The spat between Gulf states and Qatar
00:52is not on the agenda but could be discussed in relation to Qatar's rocky relationship
00:58with Egypt. Libya's newly elected parliament has condemned
01:02as terrorists the militia alliance which says it has captured Tripoli's international airport.
01:08A spokesman for the militia said that the new parliament was illegitimate and called
01:13for the country's former governing body, the Islamist-dominated General National Council,
01:19to reconvene. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
01:23says that his government is investing significant resources to tackle the barbaric ideology
01:29of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The murder of American journalist James Foley
01:35by ISIL militants purportedly from the UK betrays everything the British people stand
01:41for, he said. In sport, Aaron Ramsey and Olivia Giroud struck
01:46in the final minutes as Arsenal recovered to draw 2-2 at Everton in the Premier League
01:51last night. Manchester United, buoyed by the return of striker Robin Van Persie, will look
01:57to get back to winning ways quickly as they take on Sunderland in an away game tonight.
02:04A man who was shot multiple times at a California concert featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa has died.
02:11On Friday, police rushed to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Silicon Valley after receiving
02:16multiple calls that shots had been fired. However, no arrests have been made and officers
02:21are still looking for a male suspect, believed to be in his 20s and armed with a handgun.
02:27And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:32to 31 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And
02:36as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com