Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. Clinton claims Democratic presidential nomination, Violence rises in the Middle East: Report, Obama, Modi welcome work on nuclear reactors in India, La Roja aims for third straight European Championship win: Del Bosque, Meryl Streep dresses up as Donald Trump at gala celebration. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Wednesday, June the 8th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Hillary Clinton declared herself the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. President,
00:14embracing her role in history as the first woman to lead a major party in a race for the White House.
00:20She celebrated her victory in the nominating race over rival Bernie Sanders
00:25at a raucous event with supporters in Brooklyn, New York.
00:28Violence in the Middle East increased last year while the rest of the world largely got safer,
00:33underscoring a global inequality in peace.
00:37The economic cost of violence in 2015 was $13.6 trillion,
00:43or 13.3% of world's gross domestic product,
00:47according to the Institute for Economics and Peace's Global Peace Index.
00:52That's 11 times the size of global foreign investment.
00:56U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
01:00welcomed the start of preparatory work for six nuclear reactors in India.
01:05A joint U.S.-India statement said,
01:07India and the U.S. Export-Import Bank were working to complete a financing package for the project.
01:14Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque insists La Roja must aim for a historic third straight European Championship win
01:23despite the embarrassing exit as holders at the World Cup two years ago.
01:28Del Bosque's men became the first side to retain the Euro title in Poland and Ukraine four years ago.
01:35Meryl Streep won her third Academy Award in 2012 for portraying former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
01:42This week, the actress channeled another conservative politician,
01:46dressing up as Donald Trump and lampooning the Republican presidential candidate's blustery persona
01:52at a gala celebration for New York's Public Theater.
01:55And finally, the weather.
01:57Today's high across the UAE will be 41 degrees Celsius, dropping to 28 degrees at night.
02:02That's all for now. Thanks for watching.
02:04But as always, you can get the latest news on girlsnews.com