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00:00Good day, welcome to the gulf news update for Tuesday, June the 26th.
00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:11The director of US border control has said migrant parents crossing in from Mexico illegally
00:17will for now no longer be referred to prosecution, effectively suspending a key plank of the
00:23zero tolerance policy.
00:26The policy of separating children from their parents, including toddlers and even babies,
00:31drew scorn in America and around the world and forced Trump to make a rare retreat.
00:39State oil companies Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi national oil company Adnok will jointly invest
00:45$44 billion in the Ratnagiri refinery and petrochemicals complex in India�s Maharashtra
00:52state.
00:53Two firms signed a deal in New Delhi yesterday to build, own and operate the complex in collaboration
01:00with a consortium of Indian national oil companies.
01:05Iran coach Carlos Quiroz said Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo was fortunate to escape
01:11a red card despite a VAR review following an elbow in last night�s 1-1 draw at the
01:18World Cup.
01:19Portugal will face Uruguay in the last 16 after advancing as runners-up of Group B.
01:25�I don�t want to talk too much.
01:27It�s about my country and a player.
01:29I know it�ll be a war against me,� said Quiroz, who coached his native Portugal at
01:34the 2010 World Cup.
01:37Spain, who topped the group despite a 2-2 draw with Morocco, will take on Russia in
01:43the second round.
01:45Pakistani-American actor Kumail Nanjiani and actresses Tiffany Haddish and Gina Rodriguez
01:51have been invited to join the organisation that bestows the Oscars.
01:57The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Monday that 49 per cent of its invitees
02:03are female and 38 per cent are people of colour, in a move to fulfil its promise to make its
02:10ranks more diverse.
02:12A record 928 new members, representing 59 countries, have been invited.
02:19And finally, the weather.
02:20Today�s high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping to 28 degrees at night.