Operation to rescue Thai boys begins. Pompeo dismisses NKorean 'gangster' claim. Croatia beat Russia 4-3 on penalties. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver still married. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos
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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, July the 8th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09A dangerous mission to rescue 12 Thai schoolboys and their football coach trapped inside a
00:14flooded cave for more than two weeks began this morning.
00:18While Thai authorities said the first survivor may emerge around 11 hours later, the entire
00:24operation is likely to take two to three days to complete.
00:27Thirteen foreign divers and five members of Thailand's elite Navy SEAL unit are trying
00:33to bring the boys through dangerously narrow and submerged passageways.
00:38US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brushed off North Korean accusations of gangster-like
00:44diplomacy during negotiations in Pyongyang.
00:48The top US diplomat said today he will pursue denuclearization talks after meeting his Japanese
00:55and South Korean counterparts.
00:58Pompeo said he was still confident North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would stick to a commitment
01:03to abandon nuclear weapons that he made at the Singapore summit last month.
01:09Croatia beat Russia 4-3 on penalties last night to set up a World Cup semi-final against
01:15England after a dramatic match full of twists and turns.
01:20The game finished 2-2 after extra time following a late equalizer by Russia's Mario Fernandez.
01:28Earlier on Saturday, England rode strikes from Harry Maguire and Dele Alli to see off
01:33Sweden 2-0 in the other quarterfinal.
01:36In the first semi-final on Tuesday, France play Belgium while England and Croatia will
01:42face off on Wednesday.
01:45Actor and former professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife Maria Shriver
01:50are still awaiting their divorce to be official, seven years after filing for it.
01:56Former First Lady of California Shriver filed for divorce with Schwarzenegger on July 1,
02:032011.
02:04But it has been seven years and the couple is still married, reports TMZ.
02:09Shriver filed the divorce after she learned that Schwarzenegger fathered a child with
02:14their housekeeper, Joseph Bina.
02:16And finally the weather, today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:22to 32 degrees at night.
02:23That's all for now, thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest updates on
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