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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, September 6. Here are the top

00:10stories at this hour. At least three members of the same family have committed suicide

00:15in Sharjah. The incident, described by the Sharjah police as a group suicide, involved

00:19a Sri Lankan man, his wife, their son and two female relatives, in which the latter

00:25two survived.

00:26On August 29, the man jumped to his death from the seventh floor of his building at

00:302.30 am. Aung San Suu Kyi has blamed terrorists for a huge iceberg of misinformation about

00:36violence in Myanmar that has forced more than 120,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. The de facto

00:42leader of Myanmar is under growing pressure to halt clearance operations by security forces

00:48in Rakhine state that the UN has warned could verge on ethnic cleansing. Suu Kyi claimed

00:54that Myanmar had already started defending all the people in Rakhine in the best way

00:59possible.

01:00Virgin Mobile, which launched its telecom services in the UAE on Tuesday, is targeting

01:04millennials and other individuals that are digital-focused. Kareem Benkirain, managing

01:10director of Virgin Mobile's business unit in the UAE, said the team had developed an

01:14innovative digital platform to provide customers an app-based product. Virgin Mobile is a second

01:20brand of Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, the parent company of Do, and operates

01:26under the same license.

01:27American actress Meghan Markle has opened up about her relationship with British royal

01:32Prince Harry in a candid interview, confirming the couple are in love. Markle, a star of

01:37US legal drama Suits, told Vanity Fair that she and the prince dated for months before

01:42going public about their relationship last year.

01:45A grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and the second son of Prince Charles and the late

01:50Diana, Harry is fifth in line to the throne.

01:53And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 40 degrees Celsius, dropping

01:58to 29 degrees at night.

02:00That's all for now. Thanks for watching.

Three of a family commit suicide in Sharjah - GNHeadlines

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