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President Ram Chandra Paudel has issued the House of Representatives (HoR) Member Election (First Amendment) Ordinance 2082 today. 

President Paudel issued the ordinance at the recommendation of the Council of Ministers in accordance with the Article 114 (1) of the Constitution, informed the Spokesperson of the President's Office, Pradeep Kumar Koirala. 

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, has ordered the suspension of the green card lottery program at Donald Trump’s direction, saying it allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the US, The Guardian reported. 

Suspect Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, initially entered the US on a student visa in 2000 and later became a permanent resident in 2017, according to Oscar Perez, the police chief in Providence, Rhode Island. Valente was found dead on Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” Noem said on X, according to The Guardian. 

Volodymyr Zelenskiy will meet Poland's President Karol Nawrocki in Warsaw on Friday, as the Ukrainian leader tries to shore up relations with a key ally at a crucial moment for Kyiv's war effort, Reuters reported. 

The ‍visit ​comes just as European Union leaders that United States President Donald Trump recently branded "weak" ‍have agreed to borrow cash to fund Ukraine for the next two years, ensuring it can continue its fight against Russia's invasion.

While there is broad agreement ​in Warsaw ​that aid for Kyiv is essential in order to keep Russian forces away from Poland's borders, hardening attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees have fuelled simmering tensions, according to Reuters. 

The Australian government has announced a gun buyback scheme in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack - its deadliest mass shooting in decades, BBC reported. 

The scheme is the largest since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, which left 35 people dead and prompted Australia to introduce world-leading gun control measures.

Fifteen people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when two gunmen, believed to have been motivated by "Islamic State ideology", opened fire on a Jewish festival at the country's most iconic beach, according to BBC.