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A catastrophic flash flood triggered by a glacier collapse on the Nepal–Tibet border has killed at least 360 people and left nearly 1,400—mostly tourists—missing, officials say. Whole villages, roads and bridges were swept away as a wall of water and debris thundered down mountain valleys, hampering rescue efforts. Dozens of nationalities, including many from India, the US, UK, Australia and Canada, are unaccounted for. Helicopters and international teams are searching devastated areas; hundreds have been rescued and injured flown to Kathmandu. Nepal and Chinese authorities, backed by UN and foreign aid, are scaling up relief operations as survivors describe terrifying scenes of sudden, overwhelming mudflows. Authorities warn the death toll may rise.
Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb commander known as the “Butcher of Bosnia,” has died in a Hague prison aged 84 while serving a life sentence for genocide and war crimes. Convicted in 2017 by the UN tribunal for orchestrating the 1995 Srebrenica massacre—where at least 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed—Mladić was a central figure in the ethnic cleansing and the siege of Sarajevo during the 1992–95 war that left over 100,000 dead. Arrested in 2011 after 16 years on the run, he repeatedly denied the court’s authority.
Uefa has applied for criminal legal proceedings against Fifa and president Gianni Infantino over a scrapped plan to sell stakes in the World Cup and other competitions to private investors. Documents seen by BBC Sport show Uefa seeks access to evidence and files in Florida to support future criminal charges in Switzerland. Uefa alleges Infantino engineered the scheme to enrich himself and a “small circle,” bypassing proper internal approval and failing to secure independent valuations. The application claims the proposed $4.2bn sale implied an unreasonably low enterprise value of about $20bn and harmed Fifa, its members and Uefa’s 55 associations. Uefa says the plan was developed in secret and may prompt further criminal claims against other Fifa officials.
