00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Thursday, August 21. Here are the top
00:10stories at this hour. US special forces staged an unsuccessful operation
00:15this summer to rescue photojournalist James Foley and other Americans being held in Syria
00:20by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants. Senior Obama administration officials said
00:26the attempt, involving several dozen commandos, was the first known US ground operation in
00:31Syria since the country's descent into civil war.
00:35Israeli airstrikes have killed six Palestinians in Gaza, including three Hamas commanders.
00:40Mohammed Abu Shamala, Raed al-Attar and Mohammed Barhum were killed in a bombing of a house
00:46in the southern town of Rafah. Meanwhile, a senior Fatah official has blamed the failure
00:51of ceasefire talks in Cairo on Qatar. A St. Louis-area police officer has been suspended
00:58indefinitely for pointing a semi-automatic assault rifle at a peaceful demonstrator as
01:03tensions flared over the police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown. Attorney General
01:08Eric Holder, meanwhile, sought to reassure the people of Ferguson about the investigation
01:12into Brown's death. Thailand's junta-appointed legislature voted
01:16unanimously today to name General Prayuth Chanokya as the new prime minister. The 60-year-old
01:22leader is due to retire from the army next month, but until then he can hold both positions.
01:28Dubai government-owned property developer Nakheel is repaying its entire 7.9 billion
01:33dirham bank debt almost four years ahead of schedule. The company said in a statement
01:37that the final instalment on the debt is due in March 2018. It will pay 5.54 billion dirhams
01:44to 31 banks made up of 10 from the UAE and 21 from overseas today.
01:50Football's Indian Super League will hold its first draft in Mumbai today. Indian cricket
01:54legend Sachin Tendulkar leads one of eight city franchises. Veteran football stars David
01:59Trezeguet, Robert Perez and Freddie Lundberg are already confirmed for the October to December
02:04tournament. Bollywood actor Aamir Khan says he has never
02:08experienced bribery for film certification. His comment comes after India's Central Film
02:13Board CEO Rakesh Kumar was arrested for alleged bribery and sent to police custody for three
02:18days. And finally, the weather. Today's high across
02:22the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.
02:26That's all for now. Thank you for watching. We will be back with the newscast on Sunday,
02:30but you can always get the latest news on golfnews.com
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