00:00Good day! Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, June 29. Here are the top stories
00:10at this hour.
00:11The UAE Federal Supreme Court has sentenced Serene Island suspect Alat Badr Abdallah Hashemi
00:16to death for murdering a kindergarten teacher, Ebolia Ryan, and planting a bomb outside an
00:21Egyptian-American doctor's home. The three-year-old, Alat, was found to have been engaging in online
00:26terrorism activities and funding illegal organizations. UK Prime Minister David Cameron
00:31warned that Daesh militants based in Syria and Iraq were planning specific attacks against
00:36Britain, saying they posed an existential threat to the West.
00:39The Israeli Navy has blocked an activist vessel attempting to reach Gaza. The flotilla of
00:44four boats carrying pro-Palestinian activists had been seeking to reach Gaza to highlight
00:48the Israeli blockade of the territory that they called inhumane and illegal. Greek banks
00:53are shut for six business days starting today, and strict limits are in place on cash machine
00:58withdrawals as the government tries to avert financial panic and the collapse of the banking
01:02system. Greek authorities ordered lenders to stay closed until July 6, and the country's
01:07central bank restricted ATM withdrawals to €60 per day.
01:11Ajinkya Rahane will lead the Indian team in Zimbabwe, which will play three one-day internationals
01:17and two T20 games, as senior players like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Pirat Khali and Rohit
01:23Sharma have been rested. One of the most talked-about appearances at Britain's Glastonbury Music
01:27Festival wasn't a singer or rocker. It was a Dalai Lama. The exiled Tibetan spiritual
01:32leader joined singer Patti Smith on stage on Sunday, where she led the crowd to sing
01:37Happy Birthday to mark his 80th birthday next week. She then presented him with a birthday
01:42cake.
01:42And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:47to 28 degrees at night.
01:49That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
01:53on gulfnews.com.
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