00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, August the 20th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour. Police have investigated and addressed a suicide threat by four workers
00:15in the UAE who they claim had been denied their dues by their employer. Sharjah Police
00:20intervened after Gulf News received a suicide note from the workers who complained they
00:24were starving, broke, and with little hope for the future. The workers who stay at a
00:28remote labor accommodation sent Gulf News the handwritten suicide note on Monday, pledging
00:34to take their lives the next day. Hamas says an Israeli airstrike has killed the wife and
00:39child of its Gaza military chief Mohamed Vaid as a temporary ceasefire went up in smoke.
00:45In a strike Wednesday morning on the southern town of Deir al-Bala, a pregnant woman, three
00:49children and two men were killed. A grisly video released on Tuesday night shows Islamic
00:55State of Iraq and the Levant militants beheading American journalist James Foley, according
01:00to US officials. ISIL called the killing retribution for recent US airstrikes in Iraq. The beheading
01:07marks the first time ISIL has killed an American citizen since the Syrian conflict broke out
01:12in March 2011. Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan has threatened to storm the Prime
01:18Minister's house if Nawaz Sharif doesn't resign before the expiry of a so-called deadline
01:23from the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief. The army has meanwhile urged both the government
01:28and the protesting political parties to exercise restraint and find a way out of the crisis
01:33through dialogue. In the US, police in Ferguson lowered their profile on Tuesday night to
01:39allow a more peaceful night of protest in the St. Louis suburb ten days after the racially
01:44charged police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. A grand jury is to begin hearing
01:49witnesses to Michael Brown's killing on Wednesday amid calls for the police officer Darren Wilson
01:55to be put on trial for murder. The sale of tablets has overtaken personal computers for
02:00the first time in the UAE. According to data by International Data Corporation, the second
02:05quarter saw at least 6,700 more units of tablets being sold than PCs as end-users maintain
02:12their shift towards mobile devices. In sports, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger acknowledged
02:18his side's nil-nil draw with Besiktas in a Champions League playoff on Tuesday night
02:22was a fair result for a difficult game. However, Wenger also blasted the performance of the
02:27referee in the game in Istanbul. The Serbian official Milorad Mazic sent off Arsenal midfielder
02:33Aaron Ramsey ten minutes from time for a second bookable offense, neither of which Wenger
02:38said were justified. And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE will be 40 degrees
02:42Celsius dropping to 32 tonight. That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always,
02:47you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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