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00:00Good day. Welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, June the 20th. Here are the top
00:07stories at this hour.
00:09An American university student held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months died at a Cincinnati
00:14hospital on Monday. Otto Warmbier, 22, passed away just days after he was released from
00:20captivity in a coma his family has said. Warmbier was arrested in North Korea while visiting
00:25as a tourist. He had been described by doctors caring for him last week as having extensive
00:30brain damage that left him in a state of unresponsive wakefulness.
00:35Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher's autopsy report shows she had cocaine in her system
00:39when she fell ill on a plane last year. But investigators could not determine what impact
00:45the cocaine and other drugs found in her system had on her death. The report states Fisher
00:51may have taken cocaine three days before the December 23rd flight on which she became
00:56ill. She died four days later.
00:59And finally, weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:03to 30 degrees at night.
01:05That's all for now. Thanks for watching. And as always, you can get the latest news
01:09at gulfnews.com