Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. North Korea tests intercontinental ballistic missile. Visitors should not hand over their passports to strangers at Dubai International Airport. Daniil Medvedev stuns Stan Wawrinka in the first round. Stevie Ryan, an actress and comedian who gained fame with impersonations of celebrities on YouTube, has died. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, July 4.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09North Korea proclaimed that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile,
00:14a watershed moment in its push to develop a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United
00:19States.
00:20U.S. experts said the device could reach Alaska, and the launch, which came as the United States
00:26prepared to mark its independence day, triggered a Twitter outburst from U.S. President Donald
00:31Trump, who urged China to end this nonsense once and for all.
00:36Authorities have cautioned visitors not to hand over their passports to strangers at
00:40Dubai International Airport.
00:43Prosecutor General Sami Al-Shamsi, head of Burdubai Prosecution, said travelers should
00:47keep their passports and personal belongings in their possession and not hand them to anyone
00:53except the proper representative of their hosts.
00:56The statement came in light of an Asian imposter who swindled newcomers and stole their passports,
01:02cash and personal belongings at the airport, before being referred to the Dubai Misdemeanors
01:07Court.
01:08Stan Wawrinka's Wimbledon hopes were shredded in the first round as the fifth seed, hobbled
01:14by a niggling knee injury, was outgunned by 21-year-old Russian Daniil Medvedev, who had
01:19the center court crowd on their feet as he won 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 on his first Wimbledon
01:26appearance.
01:28Stevie Ryan, an actress and comedian who gained fame with impersonations of celebrities on
01:33YouTube, has died.
01:35She was 33.
01:36Los Angeles County Coroner Spokesman Ed Winter says Ryan died on Saturday at her home in
01:41Los Angeles.
01:42He says her death has been ruled a suicide by hanging after the agency performed an autopsy.
01:48And finally, the weather.
01:50Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping to 29 degrees at night.
01:56That's all for now.
01:57Thanks for watching.
01:58And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com