Han Hak-ja, leader of the Unification Church, has been sentenced to two years in prison for bribing South Korea’s former first lady and other political funding offences.

A court found that Han Hak-ja’s church gave Kim Keon Hee, the wife of ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, two Chanel bags and a diamond necklace, together worth 80 million won ($57,900; £42,500). A special counsel team appointed to the case said Kim received the luxury products from the church between April and July 2022, in exchange for business and political favours.

A special counsel team appointed to the case said Kim received the luxury products from the church between April and July 2022, in exchange for business and political favours. The prosecutors said the probe was the first time the authorities have confirmed the church’s attempt at buying influence in politics, and released photos of $19m (£14m) worth of cash found in Han’s personal safe.

Earlier this year, Kim was sentenced to 20 months in jail for accepting bribes from the church. Han, the 83-year-old widow of the Unification Church’s founder Sun Myung Moon, had repeatedly denied the allegations, calling them “false”.

The Unification Church, known formally as The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, was founded in South Korea in the 1950s by Sun Myung Moon, who proclaimed himself the messiah. It is probably best known for the mass weddings where thousands of couples were married by Han and her late husband and founder Sun Myung Moon in a stadium. Critics have described the group as “cult-like”, and lawyers have accused it of coercing devotees, known colloquially as “Moonies” after its founder, to donate large sums of money.

US President Trump and Canada continued a verbal duel on Saturday over the US government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario, with the Ontario premier erecting a giant sign saying “Lake Ontario. Now and Always” – and the American president posting a video of him tearing down an avatar of that sign, erecting a replacement saying Lake America, and dancing to YMCA.

Rhetoric over the naming of Lake Ontario is the public face of an escalating trade dispute between the US and its northern neighbor involving a 50% US tariff on Canadian steel and retaliatory tariffs from Ottawa. Trump’s order for the US government to refer to Lake Ontario as Lake America by Sunday had at least one prominent impact. Google Maps had changed Lake Ontario’s name to Lake America for US users to reflect the president’s executive renaming order.

In a statement explaining why it was acquiescing to Trump’s desired name for Lake Ontario, Google said its practice is to “reflect name changes in official government sources”. Trump’s order affects the US’s federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), “which sets the standard for official US maps”, the tech company said, and that it doesn’t have any impact on Canadian naming conventions or ​how the rest of the ‌world refers to the ‌lake.

Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney has flat-out rejected the renaming, explaining that Lake Ontario derives from an Indigenous Wendat word meaning “the lake is beautiful, the lake is great” that dates back more than 400 years.

With talks to resolve the trade dispute stalled, Trump issued an executive order on Thursday directing US agencies that the lake was now Lake America, much like an earlier dispute in his second presidency with Mexico, which saw Trump direct US agencies to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Family members desperate for answers are appealing for more information from Chinese authorities and more assistance from the Australian government.

Many of the 43 Australians missing after the disaster were pilgrims trekking from Nepal into Tibet to visit Mount Kailash, a revered site in four different religions. One group of 80, including 11 Australians, had just finished the spiritual journey when the floods swept through the region.

Chinese authorities are conducting search-and-rescue operations in the border crossing area, but they have faced criticism for a tight control on information and being slow to release details about the people missing there. Chinese state media also reported teams crossed mountains and used ropes to rappel down slopes to reach the site, with one rescuer saying, “here was nothing but ruins”.

The Isha Foundation said its group’s information had been provided “to the frontline rescue teams” and “additional phone-signal information” was being shared “to assist with the search”.

The Australian government has said it is doing “everything we can” to “confirm (the) welfare” of the missing 43 Australians and “support their loved ones”.