00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, August 15. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:09Mudslides and torrential flooding killed more than 300 people in and around Sierra Leone's
00:15capital early on Monday following heavy rains, with many victims trapped in homes buried
00:21under tons of mud.
00:23Survivors and volunteers dug through the mud and debris at times with their bare hands
00:28in a desperate search for missing relatives. Military personnel were deployed to help
00:32with the rescue operation in the West African nation. Initial Red Cross estimates said as
00:38many as 3,000 people were left homeless by the disaster and that figure was expected
00:43to rise.
00:44Hundreds of Indian expatriates gathered at their country's missions to celebrate the
00:4971st Indian Independence Day. The Indian flag was hoisted at the embassy in Abu Dhabi and
00:55the consulate in Dubai. People wearing colours in the tricolour sang the national anthem
01:00while diplomats read out excerpts from the Indian president's address to the nation on
01:04the eve of Independence Day.
01:07Four years after Taylor Swift tried to handle her groping allegation against a radio station
01:12DJ quietly, the pop superstar got a very public victory with the jury's verdict that she hoped
01:19would inspire other women.
01:22Jurors in US District Court in Denver deliberated fewer than four hours to find that ex-radio
01:27host David Mueller assaulted and battered Swift during a pre-concert meet-and-greet
01:33in June 2013.
01:36As per Swift's request, jurors awarded her $1 in damages, a sum her attorney, Douglas
01:42Baldridge, called a single symbolic dollar, the value of which is immeasurable to all
01:47women in this situation.
01:49And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:55to 34 degrees at night.
01:57That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
01:59And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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