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00:00Good day, welcome to the Gulf News Update for Tuesday, August 22.

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

00:09President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued a federal decree

00:14law on excise tax, paving the way for introduction of excise tax on selected products.

00:20The new law comes ahead of the planned introduction of excise tax from the fourth quarter of this

00:25year.

00:26As per Federal Decree Law No. 7 of 2017, excise tax shall be imposed on excise goods but the

00:34tax rates shall not exceed 200% of the excise price.

00:39Yemen's foreign minister blamed Iran and its support for Houthi-Shiite rebels for causing

00:44the country's civil war and said it can't be part of the solution.

00:49Abdul Malik al-Mughlafi said at a press conference that Iranian weapons are still being smuggled

00:54into Yemen.

00:55Saudi Arabia's UN ambassador, Abdullah al-Mualimi, whose country supports Yemen's internationally

01:00recognised government, had a more direct message.

01:04Iran should get the hell out of the area, period.

01:07India's top court today banned a practice that allows Muslim men to divorce their wives

01:12instantly, ending a long tradition that many women had fiercely opposed.

01:17The Supreme Court ruled that the practice of triple talaq, whereby Muslim men can divorce

01:22their wives by reciting the word talaq or divorce three times, was both unconstitutional

01:28and un-Islamic.

01:29Victims, including Shaira Bano, whose husband used triple talaq to divorce her by letter

01:35in 2015, had approached India's highest court to ask for a ruling.

01:41Filmmaker Gurinder Chadha's partition 1947, the Hindi version of period drama Viceroy's

01:46House, has been banned from releasing in Pakistan, reportedly over misrepresentation

01:52of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

01:54The British film director of Sikh origin, known for her movie Bended Like Beckham, whose

01:59mother grew up in Rawalpindi, went back to trace her roots and document events that led

02:04to the partition.

02:06And finally, the weather.

02:07Today's high across the UAE will be 45 degrees Celsius, dropping to 32 degrees at night.

02:13That's all for now.

02:14Thanks for watching.

02:15As always, you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com

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