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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, June 22. Here are the top stories

00:09at this hour.

00:11An intense heatwave killed more than 140 people over the weekend in Pakistan's southern city

00:16of Karachi as the electricity grid crashed during the first days of Ramadan. The outages

00:21hit large portions of Pakistan's financial heart and helped 20 million people where residents

00:26lit bonfires in protest. The temperature has soared to the mid 40s. Six Taliban gunmen

00:31who attacked the Afghan parliament have been killed, police said, nearly two hours after

00:35lawmakers were forced to flee by a large explosion and gunfire. One Taliban fighter driving a

00:41car detonated a bomb outside parliament gates and six others took up positions near the

00:45building. Afghan forces killed six of them and all lawmakers were safe. Hours after pop

00:51superstar Taylor Swift criticized a giant tech company in an open letter posted online,

00:56Apple announced that it will pay royalties to artists and record labels for music played

01:00during a free three-month trial of its new streaming music service. Apple had already

01:05agreed to share revenue from paid subscriptions to the new Apple Music service, which will

01:09cost $10 a month. But Swift said she would withhold her latest album from the service

01:15because Apple wasn't planning to pay artists and labels directly for the use of their music

01:19during the free introductory period. We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask

01:24us to provide you with our music for no compensation, Swift wrote in an open letter posted on her

01:28Tumblr page under the heading to Apple Love Taylor. Jordan Spieth followed up a historic

01:34Masters triumph by emerging from a crowded leaderboard in the final round to claim his

01:38first US Open crown. The 21-year-old Texan's stunning one-stroke victory over fellow American

01:44Dustin Johnson and South African Louis O.S. Thezen at Chambers Bay Golf Course gets Spieth

01:50halfway home to an unprecedented calendar year Grand Slam. And finally, the weather.

01:54Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping to 30 degrees at night.

02:00That's all for now. Thanks for watching. But as always, you can get the latest news on

02:03gulfnews.com.

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