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Welcome to SBS News in Easy English, I am Camille Bianchi.
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The Premier of New South Wales has defended his decision to wait ten days before telling the public explosives and an antisemitic note were found in northwest Sydney.
A person living in Dural found a caravan with the explosives and note on January the 19th - but the investigation was not public until Wednesday this week.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns says the information was kept private to allow police to search for the offenders.
He says they will be found - and punished.
"That there are massive amounts of police and government resources being devoted to this investigation, that there will be absolutely no tolerance under any circumstances for these acts of criminal violence in our community. And anyone attempting this level of violence in New South Wales will be met by every resource that we have to throw at it."
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The death toll from a stampede at a Hindu festival in India is rising.
At least 30 people have been killed in the stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela, as tens of millions swam together in a river on the most lucky day of the festival.
There are reports even more people died and that nearly 40 bodies were taken to the local hospital morgue.
Police sources say more bodies are being brought to the morgue, more than 12 hours after the stampede.
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There are many more people in Northern Territory prisons now than before the territory's government took power in August.
The new government has a focus on reducing crime and the number of prisoners is now at a record high.
More than 2600 people are now in jail or police watch-houses there, many of them First Nations people.
The Northern Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency says this situation is not reducing crime and will badly affect Indigenous communities and families.
Nathan Finn from the Northern Territory Police Association says the number of people in prison is affecting both police and prisoners.
"There's limited room for showering, limited room for exercise in that facility. So potentially they're locked up in a cell sometimes for 24 hours out of a 24-hour period."
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A new study has found changing your eating, exercise and learning habits, could delay the start of the disease, dementia.
Around 420-thousand Australians have dementia.
Professor Henry Brodaty from the University of New South Wales Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing says almost half the risk of getting the disease comes from our environment.
He says the world first trial to test changes in diet, exercise, and brain training showed better brain function in older adults, with signs of dementia starting one year later.
"We know that delaying dementia reduces the number of cases, because dementia is largely a disease of late life. So, if we push it backwards and backwards to the end of life... And so, a one year delay would reduce the number of cases by ten percent."
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International space agency -NASA - says a new study into asteroids shows they may have started life on Earth.
The study looked at dust and small rocks collected by NASA from Bennu - an asteroid that sits close to Earth.
The study says the dust and rocks samples have the same pieces of DNA that is in all life on Earth.
Author Tim McCoy from the Smithsonian Institution says the asteroid samples are the strongest evidence we have ever had of how life on earth began.
"We've thought for a while that the water on Earth certainly could have come from an asteroid because we've seen water for a long time. This is telling us that not just the water, but some of the building blocks of life were seeded on to Earth and other planets. It wouldn't have been limited to just Earth."
That is the latest SBS News in Easy English, I'm Camille Bianchi.
