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Real Madrid ended a turbulent week with a 2-0 LaLiga win over lowly Levante on Saturday courtesy of second-half goals from Kylian Mbappe and Raul Asencio, after being met with boos from a restless Bernabeu crowd before the breakthrough arrived, Reuters reported. 

Real stayed second in LaLiga on 48 points from 20 matches, one behind leaders Barcelona, who have a game in hand and visit Real Sociedad on Sunday. Levante are 19th with 14 points.

The win also snapped Real's two-match losing run and offered brief respite after a bruising week, according to Reuters. 

Arsenal took a seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League after a scoreless draw with Nottingham Forest on Saturday following an exhilarating 2-0 derby victory for Manchester United that dealt a devastating blow to Manchester City's title hopes, Reuters reported. 

Arsenal could have gone nine points clear with a win at Forest, but Sean Dyche's side fought tooth and nail to secure the draw, becoming only the second team to prevent Mikel Arteta's side from scoring in the Premier League this season.

"We tried to at the end find a goal. I don't think we conceded a single shot, again. But that's the margins and we didn't find a way to win it," Arteta said, according to Reuters. 

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli will contest the House of Representatives elections scheduled for March 5 from Jhapa-5. 

Deputy General Secretary Lekhraj Bhatt said the party’s Secretariat meeting held on Saturday decided to field Oli as the party’s candidate from the constituency.

The Syrian army is moving into areas east of Aleppo city, after Kurdish forces started a withdrawal, BBC reported. 

Syrian troops have been spotted entering Deir Hafer, a town about 50km (30 miles) from Aleppo.

On Friday, the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia announced it would redeploy east of the Euphrates river. This follows talks with US officials, and a pledge from Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to make Kurdish a national language, according to BBC. 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been declared the winner of Thursday's election extending his four decades in power by another five years, BBC reported. 

He gained 72% of the vote, the election commission announced, against 25% for his closest challenger Bobi Wine, who has condemned what he described as "fake results" and "ballot stuffing".

Wine has not provided any details and the authorities have not responded to his allegations, but African Union election observers said they saw "no evidence of ballot stuffing". Wine has called for non-violent protests, according to BBC. 

Iran's supreme leader has for the first time publicly acknowledged that thousands of people were killed during recent protests, BBC reported. 

In a speech on Saturday, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said thousands had been killed, "some in an inhuman, savage manner", and blamed the US for the deaths.

A violent response to the unrest has claimed 3,090 lives, according to US-based Iranian Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), with some activist groups putting the death toll far higher. An internet blackout has made it extremely difficult to get clear information, according to BBC. 

A threat by President Donald Trump to impose fresh tariffs on eight allies opposed to his proposed takeover of Greenland has drawn condemnation from European leaders, BBC reported. 

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the move was "completely wrong", while French President Emmanuel Macron called it "unacceptable".

The comments came after Trump announced a 10% tariff on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland would come into force on 1 February but could later rise to 25% - and would last until a deal was reached, according to BBC. 

The Election Commission has formally recognized the working committee of the Nepali Congress led by Gagan Thapa.

A meeting of the Commission held on Friday granted official recognition to the Thapa-led committee, including authorization to use the party’s four-star flag and its election symbol, the tree.

With this decision, Thapa has officially become the President of the Nepali Congress.

Recently, a Special General Convention was held at Bhrikutimandap under the leadership of then General Secretaries Gagan Kumar Thapa and Bishwo Prakash Sharma.

The convention elected a new working committee under the headship of Thapa.