The number of people now missing in the aftermath of flash floods in Nepal an...
to be as high as 2,500.
“They include many pilgrims and four nationals, dozens of Americans are among those missing.”
Venus at Rajnikant Patel is an American who is touring Nepal.
His brother Dennis Patel says a sibling called the family hours before the floods. When we see the videos of the devastation that has been done, it's very painful, but we are positive, we are trying, we are praying for this safe return. Rescueers have been airlifting survivors to safety as they race to keep the death toll from climbing.
It currently stands near 600. U.S. military families evacuated from Bahrain because of the war with Iran, have been pressing the Navy for answers on their future. Steve Walsh with a conversation with U.H.R.O. in Norfolk, Virginia says the issue is addressed at a recent town hall event.
Navy leaders tried to answer questions from over 580 dependence on the call who were evacuated
from naval support activity, Bahrain, shortly after the war began.
“Vice Admiral Kurt Orenshaw, the head of Fifth Fleet, conceded that the Navy thought this”
would be a short conflict. We literally have been making this up as we go, because nothing is conceived to go on this length of time. More than 1300 family members of service member stationed in Bahrain have been spread across Europe and the U.S., many are living in hotels.
Navy leaders said they want families to pick a more permanent location while the military works out the future of the base. For MPR News, I'm Steve Walsh, Indigenous leaders are speaking out after President Trump signed an executive order, renaming Lake Ontario Lake America. Sara Lee Seath, member of S.U. reports one tribe in Oklahoma says the name change erases
a part of their history. Billy Friend is the chief of the Wyandot Nation, a tribe now headquartered in northeast Oklahoma, but with history in the Great Lakes region, friend says the word Ontario predates both
“Canada and the U.S. and came from his ancestors language, Wendot.”
It means the lake is big, or beautiful. It's not about politics, it's about history, it's about respecting a tribal name and the people who's language gave that name to the lake. He calls the move another act of forced removal and says he plans to ask Interior Secretary Doug Bergum to reverse the change for NPR News.
I'm Sara Lee Seath in Oklahoma City.
President Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the first group of astronauts,
the travel beyond low earth orbit since 1972. This is NPR News. A massive crowds descended on the national mall for a defend the vote March. The Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network organized the event, which was expected to feature speeches from Senator Bernie Sanders and representative Alexandria, Ocasio-Quartez
among others. They are among those pushing back against GOP back to election-related restrictions, including mail-in voting. Last night, a federal judge issued a temporary order blocking the U.S. Postal Service from implementing President Trump's executive order on mail-in ballots before the midterm
elections. The U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR. European soccer's governing body is asking a U.S. Federal Court for permission to obtain testimony and documents from FIFA. As my Nicholson reports, the U.A.FA is considering filing legal proceedings against the
Association's president. The Union of European Football Association says it is preparing a criminal complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino over his now abandoned plan to set off stakes in the world cup to private investors. The European soccer governing body accuses Infantino and other FIFA officials of criminal
mismanagement under Swiss law. In a statement, U.A. for describes Infantino's plans as an attempt to profit from FIFA's most valuable assets to the detriment of FIFA its members and other parties within the football family. U.A. for alleges that Infantino designated thrive eternal and investment vehicle headed
by Joshua Kushner to lead to the investor group. For MP Ones, I'm Asmine Helson in Berlin. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News. This season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway, we've smuggled products in the North Korea, and now we make it to our seventh continent at Harktika.
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