00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, July the 10th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08The Euro 2016 final tonight sees a match between hosts France and Portugal that will unleash
00:14a clash between Cristiano Ronaldo and Antoine Griezmann.
00:18After 50 matches over a month of football that has seen stunning shocks by Iceland and
00:22Wales, Ronaldo is counting on one more upset so he can finally win an international trophy.
00:28The match kicks off at 11pm UAE time.
00:31More than 1 million UAE residents work in Dubai but choose to live in another emirate
00:36according to the latest numbers by the Dubai Statistics Centre.
00:39The number of people working in Dubai and residing in other emirates has grown by 3%
00:44between 2013 and 2015.
00:47The permanent resident population of Dubai was reported at 2.4 million in 2015 with an
00:52additional 1.1 million people driving down for work during peak weekday hours.
00:58Thousands of Iranian opposition activists descended on Paris on Saturday to attend one
01:03of the biggest anti-regime rallies.
01:05A key speaker at the conference organised by the National Council for Resistance in
01:09Iran was Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, former intelligence chief and diplomat.
01:14Prince Turki vowed to stand by the Iranian opposition in its efforts to remove what he
01:18called the Khomeini cancer, referring to the founder of the Islamic Republic.
01:23Protests against the shootings of two black men by police officers shut down main arteries
01:28in a number of US cities on Saturday.
01:31Undeterred by concerns about safety at protests after a lone gunman killed five police officers
01:37in Dallas, organisers went ahead with marches in New York City and Washington DC.
01:42Australia's Prime Minister said today his Conservative coalition government was re-elected
01:47for a second three-year term.
01:49Vote counting was still underway from the July 2 ballot, but Prime Minister Malcolm
01:54Turnbull said his Conservative-Liberal Party-led coalition had secured a victory.
01:59Earlier, opposition leader Bill Shorten conceded and called Turnbull to congratulate him.
02:04Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the Broadway smash Hamilton, made a subdued
02:10final bow Saturday alongside two other departing stars.
02:13The performance at the Richard Rogers Theatre was also the last for Leslie Odom Jr, who
02:18won a Tony Award as Aaron Burr, and Philippa Soo, who portrayed Elisa Schuyler.
02:24And finally, the weather.
02:25Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping to 31 degrees at night.
02:31That's all for now.
02:32Thanks for watching.
02:33And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com
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