00:00Good day. Welcome to The Gulf News Update for Monday, June 20. Here are the top stories
00:07at this hour.
00:08The trial for a suspect accused of killing 8-year-old boy Hrobaida Sedqi after sexually
00:13assaulting him started in a Dubai court today. The Jordanian suspect Nidal Isa Abdullah admitted
00:19in the first hearing that he raped and killed the boy, and also confessed to driving his
00:23car under the influence of alcohol.
00:25Dubai's Attorney General said last week that prosecutors would seek a death sentence against
00:30the suspect.
00:31The UN says conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of
00:36refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to reach a record 65.3 million at the end
00:42of 2015.
00:43Meanwhile, in Iraq, aid workers are scrambling to cope with a massive influx of Iraqi civilians
00:49who fled Fallujah after government forces retook much of the city from Daesh.
00:53The UN Refugee Agency said up to 84,000 people had been forced to flee their homes since
00:59the start of the offensive nearly a month ago.
01:02The Indian rupee pared its decline after the currency tumbled to a one-month low on the
01:06news central bank chief Raghuram Rajan will leave his post in September. The rupee initially
01:11fell 0.9 percent to 67.66 versus $1 this morning, the weakest since May 24.
01:19Armando Sadiku scored Albania's first goal at a major tournament and a historic 1-0 win
01:25over Romania on Sunday to keep alive their hopes of progressing to the Euro 2016 knockout
01:30phase.
01:31Sadiku headed home the game's only goal after 43 minutes in Lyon to leave debutants Albania
01:37facing an anxious wait.
01:38Host nation France progressed as group winners following a draw with Switzerland, but Romania
01:43exited with just a single point.
01:46Anton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekhov in the new Star Trek films,
01:51was killed by his own car as it rolled down his driveway early Sunday. The car pinned
01:55Yelchin, 27, against a brick mailbox pillar and a security fence at his home in Los Angeles.
02:03And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:08to 29 degrees at night.
02:10That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:14at golfnews.com.
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