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Sri Lanka knocked out of Asia Cup - GN Headlines

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00:00Good day and welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, September the 18th.

00:07Here are the top stories at this hour.

00:09Republicans are forging ahead with plans for a Senate hearing they had hoped to avoid on

00:13a woman's claims that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when both were high schoolers.

00:19Republicans reversed course and agreed to the hearing in the face of growing demands

00:23by GOP senators to hear directly from Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford.

00:27Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said his panel would hold a hearing

00:32next Monday with both Kavanaugh and Ford to provide ample transparency.

00:37Tens of thousands of North Koreans chanted unification and waved flowers as their leader

00:42Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in paraded through Pyongyang.

00:47The parade today came ahead of a summit aimed at rekindling stalled nuclear diplomacy.

00:52Kim greeted Moon with hugs and smiles as the South Korean leader arrived in the North's

00:57capital to revive momentum in the faltering talks between U.S. and Pyongyang.

01:02In cricket, five-time champions Sri Lanka are going home early after being knocked out

01:07of the Unimoni Asia Cup following their second loss.

01:10Afghanistan beat them by 91 runs to cement their place in the Super Four stage along

01:15with Bangladesh.

01:16India take on Hong Kong in Group A today.

01:19HBO's record-breaking fantasy epic Game of Thrones stormed back onto the Emmy stage

01:24on Monday.

01:25It won the coveted Best Drama Series prize on a night full of surprises including an

01:29on-air marriage proposal that stunned the audience.

01:32The marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon's story of a 1950s housewife turned stand-up comic

01:38stormed the awards with eight Emmys overall for Best Comedy Series.

01:43And finally, the weather.

01:44Today's highs across the UAE will be 42 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.

01:50That's all for now.

01:51Thanks for watching.

01:52And as always, you can get the latest updates on gulfnews.com.