00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, July the 31st.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Unstable weather will continue to prevail in the UAE until Thursday, bringing dust,
00:15haze, rain and fog to various parts of the country.
00:19The UAE Met Office said much of the country's skyline will remain shrouded in haze the whole
00:24day today.
00:25Zimbabwe's President Emerson Mnangagwa and his main opponent Nelson Chamisa both said
00:31today they were confident of victory in the polls.
00:34Observers said that national elections held on Monday were too early to call.
00:39Mnangagwa said he was receiving extremely positive information on the vote.
00:44Chamisa said earlier the opposition movement for democratic change had done exceedingly
00:50well in the vote.
00:51U.S. intelligence agencies have found that North Korea is building new missiles based
00:56on satellite photographs taken in recent weeks and other new evidence.
01:01Just weeks after a high-stakes summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, Pyongyang appears
01:07to be developing at least one liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile.
01:13The Washington Post revealed the details on Monday, citing officials familiar with the
01:18intelligence.
01:19The Guardians of the Galaxy has found a new mission, and it has nothing to do with Thanos.
01:25Assorted cast members shared an open letter calling for the reinstatement of the franchise's
01:30director James Gunn, who was fired by Walt Disney on July 20.
01:37Gunn was fired after some years-old tweets resurfaced featuring the director joking about
01:43topics including rape, paedophilia, 9-11 and the Holocaust.
01:48The open letter went out across social media from a number of Guardians cast members, including
01:54Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel and Sean Gunn.
01:59And finally, the weather.
02:00Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 31 degrees at night.
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