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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Wednesday, July the 27th.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:08Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party's White House nomination,
00:11surviving a bitter primary fight to become the first woman to head the ticket of a major U.S. party.
00:16In a symbolic show of unity, Clinton's former rival, Bernie Sanders, said she should be selected as the party's nominee.
00:22Capping nearly a quarter-century in public life,
00:24Clinton will become the party's standard-bearer against Republican nominee Donald Trump in the November 8th election.
00:30As many as 131 suspects will face a terror trial on August 23rd in Bahrain
00:35for charges of activating sleeper cells, links to murder attempts and bomb blasts.
00:40The suspects have been booked for being part of the Zulfiqar terrorist group,
00:43said terror crimes prosecution chief Hammad Shaheen.
00:46Of the total 138 suspects, 86 are in detention and 52 are still at large, he said.
00:52The head of India's film censor board has slammed accusations
00:55that recent leaks of Bollywood films sprung from his quarter.
00:58In an exclusive interview with Gulf News tabloid,
01:00Palaj Nihalani claimed that leaks could take place anywhere
01:03and the onus was on producers to protect their films.
01:06In the last two months, drug drama Urta Punjab and sex comedy Great Grandmasty
01:10were leaked online before their official release.
01:13Beyonce led nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards
01:16as she burst in acclaim for her intertwined film album, Lemonade.
01:20Pop Diva was in the running for 11 awards at MTV's annual extravaganza,
01:24which will take place on August 28th in New York's Madison Square Garden.
01:28Adele came in second with eight nominations,
01:30seven for the chart-topping English balladeer's Hello.
01:34And finally, the weather.
01:35Today's high across the UAE will be 44 degrees Celsius,
01:38dropping to 32 degrees at night.
01:40That's all for now, thanks for watching.
01:42As always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com