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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, September 16. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:11Dubai's property sales values have already seen a decline in growth rates in recent months
00:17and now it could be the turn of rentals to follow suit. According to Clutton's, the rise
00:22in rents within Dubai's freehold clusters was limited to 1.4% during the second quarter,
00:28compared with 1.5% in the first three months of the year.
00:33The US has carried out airstrikes in Iraq, the first following a meeting in Paris convening
00:3830 countries in a fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The CIA estimates
00:44the group has between 20,000 and 31,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, Iraq has criticized
00:51the decision not to invite Iran to the summit.
00:54Rapidly deteriorating security and deepening political divisions have brought Libya closer
00:59to the brink of protracted conflict and civil strife, the top UN envoy in the country has
01:04warned. Bernardino Leon told the UN Security Council that the solution to the current crisis
01:10cannot be achieved militarily but requires political consensus.
01:15The Obama administration is ramping up its response to West Africa's Ebola crisis, preparing
01:20to assign 3,000 US military personnel to the afflicted region. The troops are expected
01:26to supply medical and logistical support to overwhelmed local health care systems and
01:31to boost the number of beds needed to isolate and treat victims of the epidemic.
01:36In sport, Liverpool's return to European action for the first time in five years and Real
01:40Madrid's shaky start to the season dominate the start of the new battle for the UEFA Champions
01:46League title tonight. Liverpool's take on Bulgarian team Ludograd's Rasgrad while defending
01:52Champions Real clash with Switzerland's Baal.
01:55Robin Thicke's blockbuster hit, Blurred Lines, grew even more controversial on Monday as
02:00the singer revealed he never wrote it. Court documents revealed that Thicke was also drunk
02:05and high while in the studio. Blurred Lines was a worldwide hit in 2013.
02:10And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 39 degrees Celsius, dropping
02:15to 31 degrees at night.
02:17That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
02:21at gulfnews.com