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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, June 14. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:10Mandatory midday breaks in the UAE that ban any work under direct sunlight between 12.30
00:15pm and 3 pm will start from Wednesday and continue until September 15. A top government
00:22official said 18 teams will monitor the level of compliance throughout this period.
00:27Violating companies will be fined 5,000 dirhams per worker and the company can even be temporarily
00:34suspended.
00:36Microsoft said on Monday it will buy the world's largest professional social network, LinkedIn,
00:42for $26.2 billion in cash in its biggest-ever deal. The offer of $196 per share represents
00:50a premium of 49.5 per cent to LinkedIn's Friday closing price. Jeff Weiner will remain chief
00:57executive of LinkedIn, reporting to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
01:02UK polls showed momentum is still with the campaign to leave the EU as the influential
01:08Sun newspaper urged its readers to vote for Brexit in next week's referendum. Three UK
01:15polls published on Monday showed the leave camp opening up a five-percentage-point lead
01:21over Remain. Phone polls had previously tended to show better results for Remain.
01:27A superbly executed strategy by coach Antonio Conte helped Italy to a 2-0 win over Belgium
01:35in their Euro 2016 opener. The result came thanks to outstanding goals by Emmanuel Giaccherini
01:42and Graziano Pele in a late game last night.
01:46The Bombay High Court has ruled that drug drama Urta Punjab can be released with just
01:51one cut and a new disclaimer. The ruling paved the way for a release of the controversial
01:57thriller in India on Friday, but a UAE release this week is still uncertain.
02:03Last week, India's censor board ordered 89 cuts and drastic changes, including the removal
02:08of names of cities in Punjab and the renaming of a pet dog.
02:13And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:18to 27 degrees at night.