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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Sunday, September the 7th.
00:09Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:12Deadly floods hit Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar on Sunday, forcing scores
00:17of residents to flee.
00:19Prime Minister Narendra Modi, meanwhile, arrived in the region to see the devastation firsthand.
00:25Almost 250 people have been killed in the northern Himalayan region and in neighbouring
00:30Pakistan since torrential monsoon rains triggered flooding, landslides and house collapses in
00:36recent days.
00:38Dubai Healthcare City has announced the setting up of the Mohammed Bin Rashid University for
00:43Medicine and Health Sciences and the launch of the Mohammed Bin Rashid University Hospital.
00:49The university will provide both citizens and residents with a range of graduate and
00:54postgraduate programmes.
00:56The university will receive the first batch of students in September 2015.
01:02Libya says a Sudanese military transport plane bound for Tripoli airport had entered its
01:08airspace to supply a terrorist group with ammunition.
01:13Sudan confirmed it had sent a military plane but said it had only carried equipment for
01:18a joint Libyan-Sudanese state border force.
01:23Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants have beheaded a second Lebanese soldier, the
01:28soldier's mother confirmed.
01:31A spokesman for Lebanon's military said it was still investigating the incident.
01:36Around two dozen more members of the country's security forces remain held captive by militants
01:42after being kidnapped in August.
01:45Sport and Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic set up a shock US Open final last night as Novak
01:52Djokovic and Roger Federer were dumped out in the semi-finals.
01:57Japan's Nishikori, the 10th seed, became the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam final
02:03when he swept past seven-time major winner and world number one Djokovic.
02:09He goes on to face Croatian 14th seed Cilic in tomorrow's championship match.
02:15And finally, the weather.
02:16Today's high across the UAE will be 38 degrees Celsius, dropping to 31 degrees at night.
02:23That's all for now.
02:24Thanks for watching.
02:25And as always, you can get the latest news at gulfnews.com