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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, July 25. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08U.S. Democrats scramble to contain damaging revelations of an insider effort to hobble
00:13Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, with the party boss abruptly announcing her resignation
00:19on the eve of the convention to officially nominate Hillary Clinton.
00:22Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she would step down at the end of the convention, a move
00:27that aimed to put an end to the scandal-threatening and uneasy truce within the fractured party.
00:31Thousands of Democratic delegates were converging on Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love,
00:36to elevate Clinton as the party's nominee, who will battle Republican Donald Trump in
00:41the November election.
00:42The Rajasthan High Court has acquitted Bollywood actress Rahman Khan in two poaching cases
00:47from 18 years ago. Khan had appealed to the Jodhpur bench of the High Court, challenging
00:51a lower court verdict which sentenced him for poaching a black buck and a chinkara,
00:56a type of gazelle, in two separate incidents.
00:59Chris Froome of Britain survived two crashes, severe storms, an uphill dash on foot, and
01:04a daredevil descent to become the winner of the Tour de France for a third time.
01:08With the victory, Froome, the leader of Team Sky, cemented his status as a cyclist without
01:13peer and Sky as cycling's top team.
01:16Will Smith will attend a Dubai screening of a supervillain film, Suicide Squad, on August 7.
01:23The actor who plays the character Deadshot in the DC film will be at a screening in City
01:27Center Dera to launch the venue's Vox Max Cinema, which features the largest screen
01:32in the MENA region at 408 square meters.
01:35Fans can only get passes to the screening via competitions.
01:39The film goes on general release in the UAE on August 5.
01:43And finally, weather.
01:44Today's high across the UAE will be 46 degrees Celsius, dropping to 34 degrees at night.
01:49That's all for now.
01:50Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.