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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, July the 2nd. Here are the

00:09top stories at this hour.

00:11According to a new report, rental growth in Dubai's residential property market outstripped

00:15that in London and Hong Kong during the first three months of 2014. In the 12 months to

00:21mid-March this year, home rents in Dubai were up an average of 16%, according to Night Frank,

00:27while London and Hong Kong saw dips of 2% and 6.3%, respectively.

00:33People who fake certificates to get a visa or a job face up to 10 years in prison in

00:37the UAE. That's according to an official. Forgery of educational certificates constituted

00:42around 40% of all documents fraud cases during the first half of this year, the Abu Dhabi

00:47Judicial Department said on Tuesday. The public prosecution dealt with at least 100 cases

00:53involving the falsification of documents.

00:56The leader of the extremist group that has overrun parts of Iraq and Syria has called

01:00on Muslims around the world to flock to territories under his control to fight and build an Islamic

01:06state. In a recording posted online, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State of Iraq and

01:11the Levant said he wants to turn the enclave his fighters have carved out into a magnet

01:16for militants.

01:18A Palestinian teenager from occupied East Jerusalem was kidnapped and killed earlier

01:22today in a suspected act of revenge for the murder of three Israeli colonists. The killing

01:28sparked a wave of clashes in East Jerusalem.

01:31India's health minister has sought a report from the director of a New Delhi hospital

01:35on the death of Congress Party lawmaker Shashi Tharoor's wife, Sunanda Pushkar. The directive

01:40follows claims the head of forensics department at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences

01:45was pressured by top officials to show that Pushkar's death at a five-star hotel in January

01:50was natural.

01:52Footballer Lionel Messi said he was nervous during Argentina's lucky World Cup win over

01:56Switzerland last night. The captain finally prized open the Swiss defense deep into extra

02:01time, two minutes from penalties, and picked out Angel Demaria for the game's only goal.

02:07And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:10to 32 tonight.

02:12That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news

02:15on gulfnews.com.

02:22Thanks for watching.

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