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Major League Soccer has handed lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for violating its gambling policy, the ​league announced on Monday, Reuters reported. 

Jones, 29, played 23 games for Columbus ‌Crew in 2024 and 2025, while 28-year-old Yeboah was his teammate before joining Los Angeles FC in January 2025 after three seasons at the Crew.

Suspicious betting ​alerts were investigated by the MLS who said the two ​players engaged in extensive gambling on matches, including on their ⁠own teams, during the 2024 and 2025 seasons, according to Reuters. 

The counting of votes cast under the proportional representation (PR) system for the House of Representatives (HoR) elections is underway.

As of 7:46 am today, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which has so far won 125 seats, is also leading in the PR vote counts with a wide margin.

Out of 10,297,497 votes counted so far, the party has secured 4,951,964 votes.

Similarly, the Nepali Congress (NC) has achieved 1,674,940 votes while the CPN-UML garnered 1,390,293 and the Nepali Communist Party got 753,082. 

The Shram Sanskriti Party has collected 348,159 and the Rastriya Prajatantra Party achieved 322,604 votes.

As per the EC updates, the Janata Samajwadi Party Nepal secured 169,447 votes, the Rastriya Pariwartan Party 165,069 and the Janamat Party has achieved  75,486 votes.

Towards the direct electoral counts, the NC has been elected in 18 seats, UML in nine, NCP in eight, Shram Sanskriti in three, RPP and an independent candidate one each.

Dr Arjun Kumar Karki of CPN-UML was declared the winner in the House of Representatives (HoR) election from Sankhuwasabha district. 

As per the results announced last night, Karki won the HoR seat by getting 15,663 votes against his nearest rival Mingma Sherpa. 

Sherpa of Rastriya Swatantra Party bagged 15,000 votes in the election, according to the Office of the Returning Officer.

Of the total 119,630 voters in the district, 63,634 voters cast their votes in the March 5 HoR election.

Nepali Communist Party (NCP) Matrika Prasad Yadav has won the election to the House of Representatives (HoR) from Dhanusha 1. 

According to the Election Commission (EC), Yadav won the seat by securing 10,428 votes, while his nearest rival Rampaltan Sah of Nepali Congress obtained 9,485 votes. 

Ram Chandra Mandal of CPN-UML secured 9,220 votes in the HoR election held on March 5. 

The result of Dhanusha-1 was announced on Monday after a meeting of the EC directed the Office of the Returning Officer for the same. 

Earlier, the EC had scrapped the candidacy of Kishori Sah, the candidate of Rastriya Swatantra Party, for being on a blacklist. 

The case is in the Supreme Court (SC) now. 

The SC on Monday directed the EC to appear on March 10 with the file regarding the cancellation of Sah's candidacy.

France is deploying about a dozen naval vessels, including its aircraft ‌carrier strike group, to the Mediterranean, Red Sea and potentially the Strait of Hormuz as part of defensive support to allies threatened by the conflict in the Middle East, Reuters reported. 

Speaking in Cyprus before visiting the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which arrived this weekend in ​the eastern Mediterranean, President Emmanuel Macron sought to reassure his Cypriot counterpart after drones were intercepted heading ​towards the island last week.

"When Cyprus is attacked, then Europe is attacked," Macron said ⁠after meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Paphos, according to Reuters. 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday predicted the war in the Middle East could be over soon, even as Iran's hardliners staged a show of loyalty to new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei in a sign that it was not prepared to back down any time soon, Reuters reported. 

The ​conflicting signals sent markets on a rollercoaster, with oil prices surging and stock markets nosediving before swinging in the other direction after Trump's comments and reports of a possible ease in sanctions on Russian energy.

Khamenei, ‌56, a Shi'ite cleric with a power base among the security forces and their vast business empire, has been declared unacceptable by Trump, who has demanded Iran's unconditional surrender, according to Reuters. 

Iran is wagering it can outlast the United States and Israel--not militarily, but by grinding the war into a brutal contest of endurance. Its strategy is stark: Unleash drones and missiles, cut vital energy routes and jolt global markets hard enough ​to force Washington to blink first, Reuters reported. 

Despite the shock of the U.S.–Israeli strikes and the loss of key figures, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)--long the ultimate guardian of the Islamic Republic -- is firmly ‌in control, directing the battlefield, executing pre-planned contingencies and dictating strategy and targets in the war.

The IRGC also played the decisive role in elevating Mojtaba Khamenei as supreme leader after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening U.S.–Israeli strikes, according to Reuters.

A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed, expert video analysis shows, BBC reported. 

A video published yesterday by Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, which BBC Verify has confirmed as authentic, shows a missile moments before it struck an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base next to the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Minab.

BBC Verify has previously established through satellite imagery, verified videos and expert analysis that the area near the school was hit by a series of strikes, according to BBC.