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The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is being observed today. 

The United Nations General Assembly, during a special emergency session on Palestine on August 19, 1982, decided to commemorate this day, in shocked reaction to the then violence against Palestinian and Lebanese children caused by Israel's attack.

The purpose of this day is to address the physical, mental, and emotional suffering that children around the world endure and to ensure their protection. 

The United Nations has shown commitment to protecting the rights of children in line with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Even today, many children around the world are affected by conflict, extremist violence, exploitation and impunity.

The Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030, adopted in 2015, has set clear goals for the protection of children. It includes a plan under Goal 16.2 to end all forms of violence, take strong action against exploitation, neglect, and abuse.

The United Nations has stated that ending and preventing grave violations against children is central to the mandate on children and armed conflict. The most effective way to protect children from hostilities is to eliminate the push and pull factors that lead to their involvement in armed conflict.

The western and central parts of the country are under the influence of the Westerly and local winds at present, while most parts of the Koshi Province are experiencing the influence of monsoon winds, the Meteorological Forecasting Division said.

The weather will be partly to generally cloudy across the country this afternoon with chances of light to moderate rain accompanied by thunder and lightning in some places of Koshi, Gandaki, Lumbini, and Sudurpashchim Provinces, as well as at one or two places in the remaining provinces.

There is a possibility of heavy rainfall in one or two places in the Koshi Province and of light rainfall and snowfall at some places of the high hilly and mountainous region of the country.

Similarly, tonight the weather will be partly to generally cloudy in the hilly areas of the country including Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati, Gandaki, and Lumbini Provinces, while it will be fair in the rest of the country.

Light to moderate rain with thunder and lightning is likely to occur in some places of Koshi, Madhes, Bagmati, Gandaki, and Lumbini Provinces, as well as in one or two places of the hilly regions of the remaining provinces.

There is a possibility of heavy rainfall in one or two places of Koshi and Madhes Provinces. Similarly, there are chances of light rain and snowfall in some areas of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Koshi, Bagmati, and Gandaki Provinces tonight.

Jose Pedro Aguiar-Branco of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) was re-elected president of Portugal’s parliament on Tuesday with 202 votes, securing a strong majority in the 230-seat Assembly.

The outcome was a huge improvement over last year, when he was elected with 160 votes after four rounds.To prevent a repeat of that deadlock, the PSD built cross-party support ahead of the vote. Both Chega and the Socialist Party (PS) chose not to oppose his nomination, making the outcome widely anticipated, according to Xinhua.

In Portugal, 116 votes are needed to win the presidency under parliamentary norms.

The Vietnamese National Assembly has approved amendments to the Population Ordinance, removing previous limits on the number of children per family, Xinhua reported.

Under the new law, couples are now free to decide the number of children they have, as well as the timing and spacing of births.

The Ministry of Health reported a record-low fertility rate of 1.91 children per woman in 2024—below the replacement level of 2.1 which prompted the move in reaction to a persistent drop in birth rates, according to Xinhua.