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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, July the 27th. Here are the top
00:09stories at this hour.
00:11India tightened security on the border with Pakistan after heavily armed men stormed a
00:15police station in the northern frontier state of Punjab, killing six people and wounding
00:19several others. Armed police were exchanging fire with the gunmen who were holed up in
00:24the police station in Gurjaspur district near the border with Pakistan. Counterterrorism
00:28teams were on their way to the scene, the government said. Gunshots could be heard on
00:32television as security forces in red turbans surrounded the building in the town of Dinanagar,
00:37about 20 kilometers from the international border.
00:40Shelling has been reported in southern Yemen just as a humanitarian truce between Al-Houthi
00:45militia and Saudi-backed pro-government forces came into force. Al-Houthi militants artillery
00:50pounded residential areas near the city of Da'a, as witnesses said. However, the capital
00:55Sana'a in central Yemen are understood to be quiet. The Saudi-led coalition said it
00:59would halt air raids at midnight on Sunday to let much-needed humanitarian aid in.
01:05Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston and rapper Bobby Brown,
01:09died on Sunday at Peach Tree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia, about six months after
01:14she was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub in suburban Atlanta in a manner
01:20grimly similar to the way her megastar mother died three years earlier. She was 22 years
01:25old. All for one, one for all, and all bathed in yellow. Arms over each other's shoulders
01:30linked together in a long line of happiness, Tour de France winner Chris Froome and his
01:34teammates peddled slowly over the finish line, soaking up the applause on the Champs-Élysées.
01:39Three weeks of furious racing of beating back both a tenacious Colombian, Nero Quintana,
01:44and doping suspicions that our Lance Armstrong's poisonous legacy to cycling were over. British
01:49riders have won three of the last four Tours, Bradley Wiggins in 2012 and now two for Froome
01:55following his first win in 2013. And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will
02:00be 46 degrees Celsius, dropping to 33 degrees at night. That's all for now. Thanks for watching,
02:06and as always, you can get the latest news on Gulfnews.com.