The death toll from the floods in Nepal rises to 392; the Australian government in touch with authorities in Nepal to co-ordinate aid; and in football, UEFA pursues criminal legal proceedings against FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
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- The death toll from the floods in Nepal rises to 392
- The Australian government in touch with authorities in Nepal to co-ordinate aid
- UEFA pursues criminal legal proceedings against FIFA president Gianni Infantino
Rescue teams and military helicopters are searching for hundreds of missing people in the Nepal-Tibet border region, after a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities.
The flash floods in Nepal have killed 389 people, while another three people have died in neighbouring Tibet.
More than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims; while around 1,200 have been displaced across the Himalayan region.
The army in Nepal says it has rescued more than 100 people by helicopter.
Indian tourist Navu Kabirdas says he is grateful to be rescued, but it's been a scramble.
"All of a sudden, this incident happened and we lost two buses. Luckily, we escaped. We broke the driver's door and escaped from there. We reached a safer place and now we are here."
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The Australian government says it is ready to deploy aid once a request is made.
The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Matt Thistlethwaite, says consular staff are trying to locate 35 Australians that remain unaccounted for.
He has told SBS Nepali the Australian government is working with authorities in Nepal to coordinate the aid response.
"We're ready to both assist the Nepalese diaspora and the Nepalese government as quickly as we possibly can. We have an emergency response fund that we can allocate funding from. We need to now over the course over the next half a day, work with the Nepalese government to understand what their needs are. And then task those needs, so that Australia can respond."
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed solidarity with victims of the Bosnian war and urged political leaders to reject genocide denial following the death of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide and war crimes.
Mladic died in UN custody at The Hague while serving a life sentence imposed by a UN war crimes tribunal.
He was found guilty of orchestrating the 1995 massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in the UN-designated safe area of Srebrenica .
The massacre is regarded as Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric says what happened must never be forgotten.
"The Secretary-General reiterates his call for all those in position of power to refrain from denying the seriousness of the crimes that have been adjudicated. He strongly condemns any denial of the Srebrenica genocide as a historical event. And any action that glorifies those convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by international courts. Accountability remains an essential step for lasting peace."
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has stepped in to guarantee Australia’s refugee intake will not be cut.
The government had been considering reducing the annual humanitarian intake from 20-thousand places to 13,750 from 2027.
But after anger from Labor MPs and refugee advocates, Mr Albanese says the 20-thousand-place intake will not change.
The prime minister says the figure remains government policy and is consistent with Australia’s humanitarian commitments.
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The Australian National Dictionary Centre is calling for Australians to submit words and expressions that are unique to their state, territory, town or region.
The Centre has recorded more than 16,000 words and phrases, including hundreds of regionalisms.
This data is also used to inform language information included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Mark Gwynn is a senior researcher at the Australian National Dictionary Centre and says regional language tells a story about Australian history and identity.
"In Australian English, we have swimmers and bathers and togs and cozzies and budgie smugglers. But some of these are regional, so you're more likely to see swimmers in New South Wales and bathers in Victoria and South Australia and Tassie. Togs in Queensland for example."
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To sport, in football,
European football's governing body UEFA is pursuing criminal proceedings against FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Swiss courts for possible financial mismanagement over his failed plan to sell future World Cup profits to private investors.
In court documents, UEFA alleges Gianni Infantino developed the proposal in secret with a small group of advisers and investors, bypassing FIFA's normal governance processes and failing to consult FIFA's Council, regional confederations or member associations.
