00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, August the 10th. Here are the
00:09top stories at this hour. Unknown armed individuals opened fire this morning on the U.S. consulate
00:14in Istanbul amid high tensions in Turkey due to Ankara's bombing campaign against Kurdish
00:19rebels. Local media said two attackers, one man and one woman, fled after police fired
00:24back near the consulate. Broadcaster NTV said police later detained the female suspect who
00:29was wounded in the gunfire. The attack came after a suspected suicide bomber in a vehicle
00:34packed with explosives attacked a police station earlier that day, wounding 10 people, including
00:38three policemen. Two people were struck by gunfire during a confrontation on Sunday between
00:43riot police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The violence came after a day of peaceful
00:48events commemorating the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer
00:52one year ago. Gunshots erupted as police were seeking to disperse a crowd of demonstrators
00:57who began blocking traffic and smashing windows along a street that was a flashpoint of last
01:01year's unrest following the slaying of 18-year-old Michael Brown. In sport, Arsenal manager Arsene
01:07Wenger has warned his shell-shocked stars they must improve quickly to avoid being cast
01:12adrift in the Premier League title race. Feted as serious title contenders after last season's
01:17FA Cup success, Wenger's side came crashing down to earth on Sunday as West Ham clinched
01:22a shock 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium. And finally, weather. Today's high across
01:27the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night. That's all for now.
01:33Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com.
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