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Bournemouth came from behind to beat Arsenal 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday, with Evanilson's scrappy winner giving the Cherries a huge boost in their push for European football next season, Reuters reported.

Declan Rice gave the Gunners the lead in the 34th minute, rounding goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga and producing an accomplished finish on his 100th Arsenal appearance.

Bournemouth move up to eighth, which could be enough for European football next season, with 53 points from 35 games. Arsenal stay second with 67 points, three points above Manchester City in third, according to Reuters.

Sirri Sureyya Onder, a prominent pro-Kurdish party lawmaker and key figure in Turkey's tentative process to end the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) insurgency, died on Saturday at age 62, his party said, Reuters reported.

Onder, the deputy parliament speaker, was among MPs from the DEM Party who recently met jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and held talks last week with President Tayyip Erdogan in a bid to end a decades-old conflict that has killed tens of thousands.

He was taken to hospital around two weeks ago after suffering a heart attack and aortic rupture, according to the hospital where he was being treated in Istanbul. After his heartbeat recovered, he underwent some 12 hours of surgery.

Onder then spent 18 days in intensive care but died due to multiple organ failure on Saturday, the Istanbul hospital said.

Known for his wit, poetry, and warm public presence, Onder was also an accomplished director and screenwriter of works that blended political storytelling with social critique, according to Reuters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he discussed air defence systems and sanctions on Russia with Donald Trumpon the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral at the Vatican, in what he called the best meeting the two had ever had, Reuters reported.

In comments released by his presidential administration, Zelenskiy also said he and the U.S. president agreed that a 30-day ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow was the correct first step towards ending the war in Ukraine.

He said he raised the topic of sanctions with Trump at the impromptu meeting last week, and that Trump's response on this question was “very strong”. Zelenskiy did not give specifics.

He also said the critical minerals deal signed by the two countries on Wednesday was mutually beneficial, and that it would allow Ukraine to defend future U.S. investments, as well as its own territory and people.

The accord, heavily touted by Trump, will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and unleash U.S. investment in Ukraine's reconstruction, according to Reuters.

The annual policies and programs of the government for the upcoming fiscal year 2082/83 will be discussed at the House of Representatives for six days. 

President Ram Chandra Paudel presented the government's policies and programs for the upcoming fiscal year 2082/83 BS in the joint meeting of both Houses of the federal Parliament earlier this afternoon.

In the second meeting of the House of Representatives, Speaker Devraj Ghimire informed the MPs that the dates for deliberations on the government's policies and programs and response from the Prime Minister have been set for May 5 to 11.

He also urged the concerned parties to provide the names of the lawmakers to the Business Advisory Unit one hour before the commencement of the meeting, so that the discussion on the policies and programs can be held on the basis of party representation.

Speaker Ghimire informed lawmakers who want to propose amendments to the policies and programs to inform the same to the Business Advisory Section between 11 am and 3 pm on May 3 and 4.

The House of Representatives will meet next on May 5.

Earlier, the government's policies and programs for the upcoming fiscal year 2082/083 was tabled in the House of Representatives. 

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli tabled a copy of the President's address to the joint meeting of both Housed of the Federal Parliament 

Israel’s air force struck near Syria’s presidential palace early Friday hours after warning Syrian authorities not to march toward villages inhabited by members of a minority sect in southern Syria, Associated Press reported.

The strike came after days of clashes between pro-Syrian government gunmen and fighters who belong to the Druze minority sect near the capital, Damascus. The clashes left dozens of people dead or wounded. 

Friday’s strike was Israel’s second on Syria this week, and attacking an area close to the presidential palace appears to send a strong warning to Syria’s new leadership that is mostly made up of Islamist groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. 

On Thursday, Syria’s Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri harshly criticized Syria’s government for what he called an “unjustified genocidal attack” on the minority community, according to Associated Press.

Japan could use its $1 trillion-plus holdings of U.S. Treasuries as a card in trade talks with Washington, its finance minister said on Friday, raising explicitly for the first time its leverage as a massive creditor to the United States, Reuters reported.

While Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato did not threaten to sell holdings, his remarks touch on a critical concern global investors have about what Japan and China, the two largest owners of U.S. government debt, might do in seeking tariff concessions from the Trump administration.

The Treasury market saw a huge global sell-off last month after U.S. President Donald Trump's decision on April 2 to slap sweeping tariffs on trading partners, including key strategic allies such as Japan.

Kato said in a television interview the primary purpose of Japan's U.S. Treasury holdings - the largest in the world - is to ensure it has sufficient liquidity to conduct yen intervention when necessary, according to Reuters.

There is an influence of westerly and local winds in the country now. 

According to the Meteorological Forecasting Division, the water vapour-rich air entering from the Bay of Bengal has also had a partial impact. 

The weather will be partly to generally cloudy throughout the country today. There are also chances of light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning at some places of the hilly regions of Koshi and other provinces. 

The weather bulletin also noted that one or two places of the mountainous regions of Bagmati, Gandaki, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces  are likely to have light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning. 

Similarly, the weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly regions of Koshi, Gandaki and Karnali Provinces tonight. 

Light rain accompanied by thunder and lightning is likely to occur at one or two places of the hilly regions of Koshi and Gandaki Provinces. Likewise, light rain and snowfall is likely to occur at one or two places of the mountainous region of Koshi and Gandaki Provinces.. 

The government's policies and programs for the upcoming fiscal year are to be presented in the joint session of the Federal Parliament on Friday. 

President Ram Chandra Paudel is scheduled to present the policies and programs in the joint meeting of both Houses of the federal Parliament. 

The meeting of both Houses of the federal Parliament has been summoned for 3 pm today. 

Secretary General of the Federal Parliament Secretariat, Padma Prasad Pandey said that the tentative agenda of the joint meeting has been fixed. 

As per the Article 95 of the Constitution, the President shall address the joint sitting of both Houses of the federal Parliament.. 

Speaker Devraj Ghimire has already urged the members of the House of Representatives to be present in the prescribed attire and take their seats by 2:45 pm. 

Discussions have already been held among the ruling political parties to bring policies and programs for the upcoming fiscal year focusing on the measures to make the economy more circular. 

Similarly, it is believed that the policies and programs will focus on instilling hope among the youth, promoting entrepreneurship, skill, startups and business plans, and increasing the government's expenditure and maintaining good governance.

The Federal Parliament Secretariat has already set the agenda to discuss and pass the government's policies and programs during May 5 to 11. 

Similarly, discussions on the principles and priorities of the Appropriation Bill – also taken as a pre-budget discussion will begin on May 13. 

The Finance Minister will present the budget for the upcoming fiscal year in the joint sitting of the federal Parliament on May 29.