00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, August the 31st. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour.
00:11European Union leaders called for action to defend the dignity of migrants ahead of fresh
00:15emergency talks as tensions flared on the bloc's eastern borders over the escalating
00:20crisis. Home Affairs Ministers will meet on September 14th in Brussels to try and strengthen
00:25the European response to the influx.
00:28Tunisia's government reclaimed the streets of the capital after massive weekend protests
00:32demanding the premier's ouster, staging its own show of force with National Day celebrations
00:37attended by thousands. With Prime Minister Najib Razak presiding, masses of flag-waving
00:42spectators cheered a colorful parade of soldiers, police and civil servants through the city
00:47center, symbolically underlining the government's clout despite pressure for change.
00:52Italian energy group Eni says it has found one of the world's largest natural gas fields
00:57off Egypt's coast. The company said the area was 1,450 meters beneath the surface and covered
01:03100 square kilometers. It could hold as much as 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, or 5.5 billion
01:09barrels of oil equivalent. Russian third seed Maria Sharapova withdrew from the US Open
01:14last night with a right leg injury, easing the path to a calendar year Grand Slam for
01:19top-ranked Serena Williams. She is trying to compete the first Grand Slam calendar year
01:24title sweep since Steffi Graf in 1988 and match Graf's open-era record of 22 slam
01:30single crowns. Taylor Swift won Video of the Year, the top prize for Bad Blood, and Kanye
01:35West ranted at the MTV Video Music Awards. West, who said he got high before going on
01:40stage on Sunday, gave a rambling 13-minute speech as he apologized to Taylor Swift for
01:46taking her microphone in 2009, admitting,
01:48I don't understand award shows, bashing MTV and claiming he would run for president in
01:532020. And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:59to 31 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can
02:04get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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