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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, June the 30th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Authoritarian firebrand Rodrigo Duterte warned of a rough ride after being sworn in as Philippines
00:15President, promising a relentless war on crime and corruption, but also to be a unifying
00:20leader.
00:21Duterte, 71, won last month's election in a landslide victory after a campaign dominated
00:27by foul-mouthed threats to kill tens of thousands of criminals.
00:32Investigators have downloaded data from one of the black-box flight recorders on EgyptAir
00:37flight S804 and are preparing to analyze it, bringing them closer to discovering what caused
00:43the jet to crash.
00:44Search teams have salvaged both of the so-called black-box flight recorders.
00:49Michael Phelps is headed to a fifth Olympics in the event that launched his epic games
00:54career, the 200m butterfly.
00:57Phelps, whose record 22 Olympic medals include an astonishing 18 gold, won the 200m butterfly
01:04at the US Olympic Swimming Trials.
01:07Six months after announcing intentions to double the number of female and minority members
01:12in its ranks by 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683
01:19new members to join the organization.
01:22The academy says its invitees are 46% female, 41% minority and represent 59 countries.
01:29And finally, the weather.
01:31Today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.
01:36That's all for now.
01:37Thanks for watching.
01:38A reminder that our next bulletin will be on Sunday.
01:41But as always, you can get the latest news on girlsnews.com