00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News update for Tuesday, July 18.
00:06Here are the top stories at this hour.
00:09Motorists are now driving with more care as harsh penalties enforced on July 1 have helped
00:15reduce traffic fines, Dubai police have said.
00:19Police issued 94,964 traffic fines in the seven days leading to July 1 compared to 59,777
00:29fines in the period between July 1 and July 7.
00:33This means that nearly 35,187 fewer fines were issued in the first week of the amended
00:40traffic law coming into force.
00:43This was a more than one-third decline compared to the week before the law came into effect.
00:49The latest GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare was fatally wounded in the Senate
00:55when two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the legislation strongly
01:00backed by President Donald Trump.
01:03The announcements from Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas left the Republican
01:09Party's long-promised efforts to get rid of President Barack Obama's health care legislation
01:14reeling.
01:16South Africa Captain Fafduplisis said Vernon Philando was on the way to becoming the new
01:20Jack Scallis after his Man of the Match winning display in a crushing 340-run win over England
01:28in the second test at Trent Bridge.
01:31Philando made valuable scores of 54 and 42 at No. 7 before taking three wickets for 24
01:38in 10 overs as England, chasing a huge 474 for victory, collapsed to 133 all out in what
01:46was their heaviest test defeat at Trent Bridge.
01:50R&B singer R. Kelly has denied an article by US media outlet BuzzFeed News that he was
01:57keeping a household of young women in a cult atmosphere.
02:02Robert Kelly is both alarmed and disturbed at the recent revelations attributed to him.
02:07He denies such allegations and will work diligently and forcibly to pursue his accusers and clear
02:13his name, his attorney said in a statement.
02:15Kelly has not been charged with any crime.
02:18And finally, the weather.
02:19Today's high across the UAE will be 43 degrees Celsius, dropping to 34 degrees at night.
02:26That's all for now.
02:27Thanks for watching.
02:28And as always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com
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