Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Record number of global refugees in 2015. Trial for suspect accused of killing Obaida Sedqi starts today. Indian rupee tumbles to one-month low. Armando Sadiku scores for Albania. Anton Yelchin dies in car accident. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day. Welcome to The Gulf News Update for Monday, June 20. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08The trial for a suspect accused of killing 8-year-old boy Hrobaida Sedqi after sexually
00:13assaulting him started in a Dubai court today. The Jordanian suspect Nidal Isa Abdullah admitted
00:19in the first hearing that he raped and killed the boy, and also confessed to driving his
00:23car under the influence of alcohol.
00:25Dubai's Attorney General said last week that prosecutors would seek a death sentence against
00:30the suspect.
00:31The UN says conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of
00:36refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to reach a record 65.3 million at the end
00:42of 2015.
00:43Meanwhile, in Iraq, aid workers are scrambling to cope with a massive influx of Iraqi civilians
00:49who fled Fallujah after government forces retook much of the city from Daesh.
00:53The UN Refugee Agency said up to 84,000 people had been forced to flee their homes since
00:59the start of the offensive nearly a month ago.
01:02The Indian rupee pared its decline after the currency tumbled to a one-month low on the
01:06news central bank chief Raghuram Rajan will leave his post in September. The rupee initially
01:11fell 0.9 percent to 67.66 versus $1 this morning, the weakest since May 24.
01:19Armando Sadiku scored Albania's first goal at a major tournament and a historic 1-0 win
01:25over Romania on Sunday to keep alive their hopes of progressing to the Euro 2016 knockout
01:30phase.
01:31Sadiku headed home the game's only goal after 43 minutes in Lyon to leave debutants Albania
01:37facing an anxious wait.
01:38Host nation France progressed as group winners following a draw with Switzerland, but Romania
01:43exited with just a single point.
01:46Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekhov in the new Star Trek films,
01:51was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway early Sunday. The car pinned
01:55Yelchin, 27, against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence at his home in Los Angeles.
02:03And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:08to 29 degrees at night.
02:10That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:14at golfnews.com.