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Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. World condemns Florida nightclub shooting. UAE will no longer produce flammable plastic-core cladding. Bomb explodes outside of Blom Bank in Lebanon. Dubai residential market oversupplied until 2019. Bastian Schweinsteiger scores for Germany. Hamilton wins 11 Tony Awards. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Monday, June 13. Here are the top stories

00:07at this hour.

00:08U.S. President Barack Obama, Pope Francis, and Queen Elizabeth led global condemnation

00:14after a gunman went on the rampage at a U.S. nightclub, leaving at least 50 people dead.

00:19The attack at a packed nightclub in Orlando, Florida, is the worst mass shooting in U.S.

00:23history. Authorities identified the alleged attacker as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, a U.S.

00:29citizen of Afghan descent. The largest UAE manufacturer of building cladding panels

00:35said it will no longer produce flammable plastic core cladding. The announcement from Al-Aban's

00:41parent company owner Shazi Al-Mulk came ahead of the public release of a revised UAE Fire

00:46and Life Safety Code. Al-Mulk told Gulf News his firm was voluntarily halting production

00:52of the controversial products amid a rash of spectacular tower fires in recent years.

00:57A bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Lebanese Blom Bank in central Beirut on

01:02Sunday, causing damage but no fatalities. There was no immediate claim of responsibility,

01:07but the banking sector has been at the center of an escalating crisis since a U.S. crackdown

01:12targeting the finances of Hezbollah.

01:15Despite Dubai's developers spreading out their new off-plan launches, work on their

01:19ongoing projects will ensure the residential market is oversupplied until 2019. A new report

01:26from FIDR Advisory said that new and future projects could add a further 120,000 units

01:31to the existing supply, cooling off demand substantially.

01:35Bastian Schweinsteiger, scored as world champions Germany, started their European Championship

01:40campaign with a 2-0 win over Ukraine on Sunday night. The 31-year-old Manchester United midfielder

01:46came on in the 19th minute and quickly put away a perfect pass from Zout Ozil for the

01:51deciding goal.

01:52Hamilton, the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, won 11 Tony Awards, including for

01:58Best New Musical. Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical biography about the first U.S. Treasury Secretary

02:05was still just short of breaking the 12-Tony record held by the producers.

02:09And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping

02:14to 29 degrees at night.

02:16That's all for now. Thanks for watching, and as always, you can get the latest news

02:21at golfnews.com.

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