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00:00Good day and welcome to the Golf News update for Monday, July the 18th.
00:05Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Two people were instantly killed while four others are in critical condition after a pickup
00:11truck ran into a McDonald's at a petrol station in Ajman on Sunday night.
00:15Ajman police confirmed that the driver had accidentally stepped on the accelerator instead
00:19of the brake, sending the vehicle crashing inside the restaurant.
00:22Colonel Abdullah Al Hamrani, deputy chief of Ajman police, told Golf News that the driver
00:26had suffered an epilepsy attack while driving, causing him to lose control of the vehicle.
00:31A fire broke out at a power station near King Faisal Road in Sharjah this morning, leading
00:35to power outages in the surrounding areas.
00:37Parts of Behera Corniche were without power for more than two hours following the fire,
00:40which broke out around 7am.
00:42The fire was put out quickly and the power supply was restored around 10.40am.
00:46A decorated ex-US Marine sergeant opened fire on police in Baton Rouge on Sunday, killing
00:51three officers.
00:52The attack in Louisiana came nearly two weeks after the fatal police shooting of a black
00:56man there sparked protests across the US.
00:58In Sunday's attack, two Baton Rouge police officers and one sheriff's deputy were killed
01:02by the gunman, identified as Gavin Long of Missouri.
01:05Emirates NBD has reported a first-half net profit of 3.71 billion dirhams, up 12% year-on-year.
01:12For the second quarter of the year, the bank's net profits improved 16% year-on-year.
01:17The beef between Taylor Swift, Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, went nuclear
01:22on Sunday night when Kardashian posted a video on Snapchat of an old call between
01:26West and Swift.
01:27In the call, West appears to tell Swift he's going to rap about her, and Swift thanks West
01:32for asking her in advance.
01:33In an Instagram response, Swift said the audio actually proved she never gave permission
01:38for West to use a derogatory word in reference to her.
01:41She called the video posted by Kardashian a character assassination.
01:45And finally, the weather.
01:46Today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping to 35 degrees at night.
01:52That's all for now.
01:53Thanks for watching.
01:54As always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com