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The Members of the House of Representatives (HoR) continued expressing concern over the agreement signed between India and China for reopening the trade route via Lipulekh and called for resolving the issue through diplomatic process.

In the Special Hour of HoR meeting today, Ramhari Khatiwada said the agreement relating to reopening of the trade routes via the Lipulekh, Limipyadhura and Kalapani area should be diplomatically addressed. Stating that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is likely to visit both neighbours in a few days, he emphasized the need to solve the issue through diplomatic talks. 

He underscored the need for all Nepalis to unite and support the Head of the Government in this issue.

Likewise, Metmani Chaudhary echoed a similar view as Khatiwada and urged the government to raise the issue and resolve it by dealing diplomatically. 

Prabhu Shah questioned why the diplomatic notes sent by Nepal to India and China a decade ago asserting Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura and Kalapani belong to Nepal went unacknowledged. 

He also raised a question about the performances of the ambassadors in those countries and thus demanded their performance evaluation. 

The FBI is searching the Maryland home and Washington office of John Bolton, who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration as national security adviser but later became critical of the president, as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said Friday, Associated Press reported.

Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes, said the person, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation by name and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity. 

After the search at Bolton’s home started, he was spotted Friday morning standing in the lobby of the Washington building where he keeps an office and talking to two people with “FBI” visible on their vests. He left a few minutes later and appeared to have gone upstairs in the building. Agents were seen taking bags into the office building through a back entrance, according to Associated Press.

Gaza City and its surrounding area is now experiencing famine, a UN-backed body of food security experts has confirmed, BBC reported.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which is used by governments and international bodies to identify hunger levels around the world, has raised its classification to Phase 5 - the highest and most severe.

It says that over half a million people across the Gaza Strip are facing "catastrophic" conditions characterised by "starvation, destitution and death".

Israel said the IPC report was based on "Hamas lies". It continues to restrict the amount of aid entering Gaza and has previously denied there is starvation in the territory, according to BBC.

Sri Lanka's former president Ranil Wickremesinghe has been arrested in connection with the alleged misuse of funds, police have said, BBC reported.

The charge relates to trips he took abroad while serving as president.

He is due to appear in a magistrates court in the capital Colombo on Friday, having already given a statement to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) earlier in the day.

Wickremesinghe served as president from 2022 to 2024, stepping into the role after the country's worst ever economic crisis triggered a popular uprising caused his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee, according to BBC.

The Nepal Teachers’ Federation has announced the first phase of the protest program, objecting to the School Education Bill endorsed by the Education Committee of the House of the House of Representatives.

The federation announced the protest program by organizing a press conference in Kathmandu on Friday, saying that the government has not fully implemented the agreement reached with them.

Federation Chairman Laxmi Kishor Subedi said that though  many of the issues mentioned in the Bill are positive, the main concerns of teachers and employees and many issues included in previous agreements have not been addressed yet.

Under the first phase of the protest program, attention letters will be submitted to the Prime Minister, the Minister for Education, and the chief whips of political parties on August 25.

Similarly, a two-hour sit-in will be held by submitting attention letters to all the party offices at the centre from August 27 to September 5.

Likewise, attention letters will be submitted to all the municipalities on August 29 and to the coordination units of all the districts on August 31.

Chairman Subedi said that the second phase of protest will be announced on September 6.

Speaker Devraj Ghimire has said that positive aspects of federalism should be amplified and made known to the common people. 

"Research on Nepal's federalism and its findings should be internalized and promoted for correction and best practices rather than making baseless comments on the system," he reminded while addressing a program organized by the Nepal Administrative Staff College today. He further said that misleading analyses create problems in strengthening federalism.

Speaker Ghimire released the second series of a book 'Federal System in Nepal: Dimension and Practice' published by the College. He welcomed the research initiative carried out by the College. 

"We are on a historic journey towards transformation through state restructuring and introduction of a new Constitution. Three tiers of government are in place with rights ranging from legislative to administrative matters. Our constitution has reinforced the concept of cooperation, coordination and coexistence," Ghimire reminded. The book must be worth reading text at present. 

There are 14 articles and two interviews in the book.

Russia launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine overnight, officials said Thursday, striking targets including an American-owned electronics plant and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led efforts to end the 3-year-old war, Associated Press reported.

The aerial assault on a part of Ukraine that has largely not experienced such focused attacks was one of Russia’s biggest this year and came as Moscow objects to key aspects of proposals that could end the fighting.

U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the war with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaskalast week before hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday, according to Associated Press.

Nottingham Forest have signed Brazilian midfielder Douglas Luiz from Juventus on an initial season-long loan with a conditional obligation to make it a permanent deal next summer, the Premier League club said, Reuters reported.

The 27-year-old, who won Olympic gold with Brazil in Tokyo, spent one season at Juventus after leaving Aston Villa for a fee of around 50 million euros ($57.94 million) on a five-year contract.

However, he made only 27 appearances for the Turin side.

"I am really happy to be here, it's a big club and I decided to come here because I can see the ambition the club has," Douglas Luiz said in a statement late on Thursday, according to Reuters.