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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Sunday August 6th. Here are the top stories
00:07in this hour.
00:08A contingent of US troops is involved in a Yemeni operation to push al-Qaeda militants
00:14from one of their key strongholds in central Yemen, the Pentagon said.
00:18A small number of troops are there to help with intelligence sharing, Pentagon spokesperson
00:23Captain Jeff Davis said, though he did not rule out that more US forces could be committed
00:28to the operation in the coming weeks.
00:31Eric Boiling, co-host of Fox News Channel's Fox News Specialists, was suspended by the
00:36network amid allegations that he used his cell phone to send lewd pictures to female
00:40colleagues. Boiling, 54, becomes the third Fox News personality to be removed from the
00:46air this year due to allegations of inappropriate behaviour in the workplace.
00:51Fox News announced the suspension following a Huffington Post report that Boiling had
00:55sent unsolicited photographs to former and current female colleagues at the company
00:59several years ago.
01:01A local court here rejected a plea seeking a stay on the release of Ashok Kumar's film
01:06Toilet, E.K. Prem Khattar, or Toilet, A Love Story. After hearing arguments for three successive
01:13days, the Jaipur Metropolitan Court found no merit in the case and rejected the application.
01:18SS Hora Council for Viacom 18, the film's producer, said Jaipur-based filmmaker Pratik
01:24Sharma had sued the film, claiming it had lifted the punchline and the subject from
01:28his film Ghatran Ghutagan.
01:32And finally, the weather today is high across the UAE. It will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:36to 33 degrees at night.
01:39That's all for now. Thank you for watching. As always, you can get the latest news on
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