00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, July the 8th. Here are the
00:08top stories at this hour.
00:11Leading UAE businessman Abdullah Ahmed Al-Ghoreh has donated a third of his assets to an educational
00:17foundation as part of a charity drive. The foundation will initially aim to spend 4.2
00:23billion dirhams over the next ten years on educating underprivileged UAE and Arab youths.
00:29Tunisia's government says it will build a wall along its border with Libya to prevent
00:33the infiltration of Islamist fighters following a beachfront attack that killed 38 tourists.
00:39The wall, that will cover about a third of the 500-kilometer border, will be ready by
00:43the end of the year, according to Prime Minister Habib al-Sid.
00:48More than 20 million people in Karachi spent a sleepless night after a major power failure
00:53plunged large parts of southern Pakistan into darkness late on Tuesday night. The city's
00:58privately run power company, Kay Electric, said the outage had been caused due to a
01:03technical fault in the distribution system.
01:06European leaders gave debt-stricken Athens a final deadline of Sunday to reach a new
01:11bailout deal and avoid crashing out of the euro after Greek voters rejected international
01:16creditors' plans in a weekend referendum. Greek leaders must submit detailed reform plans
01:22by Thursday to win the fresh bailout funds the country needs to stop its banking system
01:27from collapsing.
01:29Actor Shahid Kapoor tied the knot on Tuesday with Meera Rajput in a low-key ceremony at
01:34a farmhouse on New Delhi's outskirts. The wedding ceremony was attended by close relatives
01:39and friends, and the grand celebration is yet to happen in Mumbai.
01:44Sport tennis Serena Williams fired a warning to Maria Sharapova ahead of their Wimbledon
01:49semifinal clash tomorrow, as the world number one admitted she saves her best performances
01:54for clashes with her fiercest rival.
01:56Gabin Moguruther of Spain takes on Agnieszka Radwańska in the other semifinal. Meanwhile,
02:01the men's big four Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Stan Wawrinka will
02:06try to make the semifinals later in the day.
02:10And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:14to 29 tonight.
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