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Atletico Madrid reached the Copa del Rey final for the first time since 2013 despite a 3-0 defeat by Barcelona on Tuesday, their 4-0 first-leg win in Madrid enough ​to secure a 4-3 aggregate victory in a breathless semifinal, Reuters reported. 

Barcelona came within a whisker ‌of an improbable comeback after last month's thrashing, with 18-year-old midfielder Marc Bernal, starting in place of the injured Frenkie De Jong, scoring in each half and Raphinha converting a penalty after Pedri was fouled.

"We're in ​the final, that's what matters," Atletico keeper Juan Musso told Movistar Plus. "We knew it ​could be difficult. They're one of the best teams in the world but ⁠we got through because we scored more goals than they did overall. That's what's all ​about."

Rodrigo Gomes and Andre scored late goals as bottom side Wolverhampton Wanderers secured a 2-1 Premier League victory over Liverpool at Molineux on Tuesday to give them ​back-to-back wins over top-five teams, Reuters reported. 

Liverpool have 48 points from 29 games and are fifth in the table, while Wolves’ recent improvement has moved them to 16 points from 30 matches.

Victory for Chelsea at Aston Villa on Wednesday will see champions Liverpool drop to sixth in the table and out of the Champions League ​qualification places following a ninth defeat of the campaign. They have not lost 10 league ​games in a season for a decade, according to Reuters. 

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a ​full U.S. trade embargo on Spain on Tuesday after the European and NATO ally refused to let the U.S. military use its bases for missions linked to strikes on Iran, Reuters reported. 

"Spain has been terrible," Trump told reporters during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, adding that he had told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to "cut off all dealings" with Spain.

"We're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain," he added, according to Reuters. 

Iranian airstrikes on Gulf states could push them into a broad coalition aligned with the United States and widen the war against Iran, Middle East analysts said, after attacks on ports, cities and oil facilities in a vital energy-producing region, Reuters reported. 

By striking at the Gulf’s economic lifelines ​in its response to U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, Tehran may be driving wary Gulf states closer to Washington and towards coordinated action against the Islamic Republic, analysts said.

The aim of the strikes against six Gulf states, all of which are U.S. allies and host American military bases, was to ensure those countries put pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump to halt the war, but Iranappears to have miscalculated, they said, according to Reuters. 

Syria's defense minsitry said it reinforced its border with Lebanon, and eight Syrian and Lebanese ‌sources said this included rocket units and thousands of troops as conflict spread in the region including between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Reuters reported. 

The sources included five Syrian military officers, a Syrian security official and two Lebanese security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Syrian defense ministry said ​in a statement on Wednesday that the army has reinforced its deployment along the Syrian borders with Lebanon ​and Iraq as part of efforts to “protect and control the borders amid the escalating regional conflict”.

Israeli and U.S. forces pounded targets across Iran on Tuesday, prompting Iranian retaliatory strikes around the Gulf as the conflict spread to Lebanon, rattled global markets and sent oil prices sharply higher, Reuters reported. 

Four days into the war, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that the U.S. military had struck ​numerous Iranian naval and air targets, saying that "just about everything has been knocked out."

Trump also sought to justify the assault on Iran, saying he had ordered the campaign because he had "a feeling" Iran would attack after negotiations over its ‌nuclear program stalled, according to Reuters. 

The upper atmosphere in Nepal is currently witnessing a high pressure system. 

It is partly cloudy in the hilly and mountainous regions of Koshi, Bagmati and Gandaki Provinces, while it will be foggy till midday in the Tarai belt today, according to the Meteorological Forecast Division. Remaining places are predicted to have fair weather.

Tonight, the southern plains will have hazes, while the hilly and mountainous belts are forecasted to be partly cloudy and rest of the places generally fair weather.

Various Nepali embassies in Gulf countries have requested the Nepalis working in West Asia to submit their details to a portal brought into operation by the Foreign Ministry. 

The embassies are making publicity and coordination for necessary assistance to the needy Nepalis in the wake of tensions in West Asia.

The Nepali Embassy in Riyadh said it had requested the Nepali workers there to share information through a portal. The information would be helpful to know about the workers' situation and take action accordingly. 

The portal prepared by the Foreign Ministry collects information about Nepali workers in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and other countries in the region.

Meanwhile, liaison committees of various political parties have also assigned contact persons for extending help to the needy Nepali workers.

Following the US-Israel military action on Iran and Iran's counterattacks in the region, the Gulf countries which are major employment destinations of Nepali youths are facing tension. It has posed a security threat to Nepali workers as well. The official data shows there are over 1.7 million Nepali workers in the Gulf countries.

The Foreign Ministry has formed a rapid action team to intensify assistance including rescue of the Nepalis in the Gulf countries.