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Iran will resume nuclear talks with Britain, France, and Germany in Istanbul on Friday, marking the first meeting since US and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites last month, Reuters reported.

The talks, confirmed by Iran’s Foreign Ministry, come after the E3 warned of renewed sanctions if Tehran failed to return to the negotiating table. A German official said the three countries remain united in preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and are working toward a lasting diplomatic solution.

Previous talks involving the US, mediated by Oman, collapsed following the joint US-Israeli offensive. Tensions have since escalated with direct military exchanges and further US strikes on Iranian targets, according to Reuters.

Fourteen people were killed and seven others injured early Monday when a shift bus fell off a 25-meter cliff in Russia’s Sakha Republic, local authorities reported.

The crash occurred on a road operated by the Denisovsky Mining and Processing Plant. The bus, carrying over 30 workers, veered off the road and overturned, according to Xinhua.

The driver was among the dead, while two of the injured remain in serious condition. Emergency crews deployed 44 personnel and 13 vehicles to the site.

An investigation into the cause is underway, Xinhua reported.

Russia will invest nearly 180bn rubles (about $2.3bn) over the next three years to modernize its border checkpoints, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin announced on Monday.

During a visit to the Kanikurgan checkpoint in the Amur Region, Mishustin said the funding will support construction, repairs, and the introduction of advanced digital systems, Xinhua reported.

More than a quarter of the country’s checkpoints are set for upgrades over the next five years, with over 30 in the Far Eastern Federal District alone. The move aims to improve cross-border logistics and support growing trade flows.

Manoj Basnet, General Manager of the Annapurna Media Network, Nepal’s prestigious media group, will be awarded with the ‘Media Leader of the Year’ Award for his contribution made to the Nepali media industry.

Bystreams LLC, the prestigious American company, has announced that Basnet will be honored with this year's 'Media Leader of the Year' Award.

Bystreams Chairman Adrian Pokharel had announced to honor Basnet with the award.

The announcement was made public on the company's official Facebook page and the Namaste America program.

“He set exemplary standards not only in the Nepali media sector, but also while becoming an international media leader,” Chairman Pokharel said, adding, “He has given a leadership perspective to the new generation by embracing the core values of truth, innovation, and public service in journalism. He has become a source of inspiration not only for Nepali journalism, but also for global journalism.”

More than 122,700 tourists visited the Gorkha Durbar Museum in Gorkha district in a year. 

Chief of the Gorkha Durbar Museum, Jayanarayan Karki, said that the number of visitors here reached 122,000 including 84,257 domestic tourists in the fiscal year 2024/25, adding that the visitors come here for study and observation purposes.

He said that the number of the visitors has gradually increased as the visitors were 119,187 in the fiscal year 2023/24. 

According to Karki, a total of 36,298 students visited the Gorkha Durbar Museum for their academic excursion while 2,003 people from the third countries visited the museum. 

The Gorkha Durbar Museum was opened to the public in 2008.

The museum mostly displays the life of King Prithvi Narayan Shah, the unifier of modern Nepal, the weapons used during that time, costumes of different ethnic communities and bands.

The Department of National Identity Card and Civil Registration stated that the services related to the national identity card have been partially disrupted.

Information Officer of the Department, Shivaraj Sedhain, shared that the services of the Department were partly disrupted as the technical teams were working for regular maintenance and capacity enhancement of the Management Information System.  

According to Sedhain, online registration, national ID card distribution service, correction of the information, online registration and renewal of the social security allowance recipients and some other services integrated into the MIS were affected. The services were affected from Sunday.

Issuing a public notice, the Department said that entire services would resume immediately after the completion of the maintenance works and capacity enhancement of the MIS.

The Department has urged the service recipients of the national ID card to submit their details and collect the cards offline too.

At least 67 Palestinians were killed while waiting for UN aid trucks in northern Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The UN World Food Programme said its convoy was met by large crowds of hungry civilians who came under gunfire shortly after crossing into the territory.

The Israeli military claimed it fired warning shots to prevent a perceived threat and disputed the reported death toll. Gaza’s civil defence later said 93 people were killed across the Strip on Sunday, including 80 in the north, according to BBC.

Hospitals remain overwhelmed, with doctors warning of growing famine. One woman told BBC Arabic that people are surviving on “only water and salt”, and children are dying from hunger.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s ruling coalition has lost its majority in Japan’s 248-seat upper house, according to Firstpost.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner Komeito secured only 46 of the 50 seats needed to reach a majority, with two results pending. It follows their earlier lower house defeat, leaving the coalition in the minority in both chambers for the first time since the LDP’s founding in 1955.

Ishiba has vowed to remain in office and address key issues, but now faces mounting pressure to step down or form new alliances, Firstpost reported.