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Death toll from floods on Nepal-China border climbs to 1,410, with over 5,650 still missing

Nepali authorities retrieved another 10 bodies in flood-hit areas as the death toll from devastating floods and mudslides that struck the Nepal-China border late last month climbed to 1,410, with over 5,650 still missing, official statistics showed Wednesday. Of those missing, 848 are foreigners, according to official figures from both Nepal and China. Some 1,367 bodies have been recovered from flood-stricken districts in Nepal, while 5,132 people, including 587 foreigners, remain missing, according to Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. Over 13,600 people have so far been rescued, including as recently as last weekend. Read: Pakistan dispatches 100 tons of humanitarian assistance to Nepal The death toll from massive mudslides in China's southwestern Xizang Autonomous Region, also known as Tibet, remains 43, with 519 people, including 261 foreigners, still missing. The disaster struck on August 26 when a glacier on Nepal's Mount...
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Austrian headscarf ban for under-14s faces first test as schools reopen

Austria's ban on headscarves for under-14s faces an initial test on Monday as schools reopen in Vienna and other states, with groups ​including the country's main Muslim organisation denouncing it as discriminatory ‌and legal challenges likely. Austria's ruling coalition of three centrist parties proposed the ban in schools, arguing it was acting to protect girls' freedom. The legislation was passed in ​parliament in December with the support of the far-right Freedom ​Party. Only the smallest party in parliament, the left-wing Greens, ⁠opposed it. The group that formally represents Austria's Muslims, the Islamic Religious Community ​in Austria (IGGO), has said the move was an infringement of fundamental rights, ​pledging to fight it before the Constitutional Court, which rejected challenges in July because the legislation had not yet gone into force. The court ruled in 2020 that a ​previous ban, which applied to under-10s in schools, was illegal because it ​discriminated against Muslims and the state had a duty to be religiously neutral. Going ‌against ⁠that principle requires special justification, it held. Read: Islamic banks told to scrap abaya dress code Asked by national broadcaster ORF if the court would overturn the new ban, Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr said, "You can never be completely certain." "We in the government carried out very intensive ​consultations, and we in ​the education ⁠ministry tried very hard to write a law that complies with the constitution," Wiederkehr said in the interview broadcast ​on Monday. Left-wing pupils' organisations have called for protests. The ​new ⁠school year starts on Monday in three of Austria's nine states — Vienna, the surrounding state of Lower Austria, and Burgenland, all in the east — with ⁠the rest ​following next week. The legislation stipulates that a school ​must hold discussions with any pupil defying the ban, after which a fine of between €150 ​and €800 ($175-$930) can be imposed.

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