Obrador storms to power in Mexico. Croatia’s coach Zlatko Dalic lauded his captain Luka Modric. Cheryl and Liam Payne announce they are splitting. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/videos
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00:00Good day, and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, July the 2nd.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:10Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador won Sunday's Mexican presidential election by
00:16a landslide.
00:17The thumping victory ushers in a new era in Mexican politics that could have profound
00:23implication for the country's domestic and international policies, including its relationship
00:28with the U.S.
00:30Obrador's projected margin of victory was 31 percentage points, the largest in Mexico's
00:35recent electoral history.
00:37His opponents conceded before any actual results were released, based on exit polls showing
00:43the fireband populists' commanding lead.
00:46Croatia's coach Zlatko Dalic lauded his captain Luka Modric, who missed a penalty in extra
00:53time but then scored another in a shootout victory over Denmark on Sunday.
00:58The win put Croatia in the World Cup quarterfinals.
01:01With the score at 1-1 in the Nizhniy Novgorod Stadium, Modric's penalty was saved by Kasper
01:07Schmeichel.
01:08However, the captain opted to return and converted in Croatia's 3-2 shootout win.
01:15It was a full day of penalty kick drama at the World Cup, with Russia outlasting Spain
01:20in a huge upset.
01:22After two years together, singers Cheryl and Liam Payne have decided to split.
01:28The couple, who have a one-year-old son named Bear, first met on The X Factor reality show
01:33in 2008.
01:35Payne, 24, was then an aspiring pop star, and Cheryl, 35, was one of the judges.
01:42Payne then went on to become a member of the record-breaking boy band One Direction.
01:47And finally, the weather.
01:49Today's highs across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 30 degrees at night.
01:55That's all for now.
01:56Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com.