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00:00Good day, welcome to the Golf News Update for Thursday, June 26. Here are the top stories
00:10at this hour.
00:11The three hours prior to Iftar are likely to see the most accidents, police said, warning
00:15motorists to be careful. Colonel Saif Muhair al-Masuri, director of Dubai Traffic Police,
00:21said people tend to drive aggressively between 4pm and 7pm during Ramadan. Last Ramadan there
00:26were 15 deaths and 156 injuries in 166 accidents involving 203 vehicles.
00:34A suicide bomber in Lebanon blew himself up in his hotel room near Beirut's seafront
00:39on Wednesday as authorities on high alert for attacks raided the premises. The bomber
00:43identified as a citizen of Saudi Arabia was killed and 11 people were injured in the blast
00:49in the Duroi Hotel in the capital's seaside Raouche district. The bomber detonated his
00:53device to avoid arrest.
00:56U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet today in Paris with his counterparts from
00:59Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan. The U.S. wants their help to intervene with Sunni tribes
01:05in Iraq to convince them to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which has made
01:09sweeping gains across the country in the past two weeks.
01:13Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was almost certainly on autopilot when it ran out of fuel and crashed,
01:19Australian officials said as they announced their search will shift further south. Investigators
01:24have been grappling with the mystery of the jet's disappearance on March 8 with 239 people
01:29on board, with months spent scouring the Indian Ocean and finding nothing.
01:34Argentina's Lionel Messi continued his World Cup duel with Neymar by scoring twice in a
01:383-2 win over Nigeria, while Switzerland's Jeddahn Shaqiri got in on the act with a magnificent
01:44hat-trick in a 3-0 win over Honduras. Nigeria scraped through behind already qualified
01:49Argentina, becoming the first African team to reach the last 16 at this tournament, while
01:54Switzerland also qualified, along with France, who drew 0-0 with Ecuador.
02:00And finally, the weather. The daytime temperature will be 42 degrees Celsius, falling to 28
02:05at night.
02:06That's all for now. Thank you for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday,
02:10but as always, you can get the latest news at golfnews.com