Kathmandu: The Nepali team has reached Kuwait to play the World Cup qualifier. The Nepali team has reached Kuwait for the remaining matches of the second round of the World Cup to be held in Qatar in 2022 BS and the Asia Cup to be held in China in 2023 BS. 

National team coach Abdullah Almutairi has selected 23 players for the World Cup and Asian Cup qualifiers. The Nepali team reached Kuwait by land. Nepal lost to Iraq 6-2 in a friendly match on Saturday. Upon arrival in Kuwait, all members of the Nepali team underwent PCR testing. According to ANFA, everyone's PCR report was negative. 

Kiran Chemjong, Vishal Sunar and Deep Karki are the goalkeepers of the Nepali team, Rohit Chand, Ananta Tamang, Dinesh Rajbanshi, Gautam Shrestha, Suman Aryal and Vikas Khawas are the defenders, Vishal Rai, Manish Dangi, Eric Visht, Kamal Thapa, Santosh Tamang and Suman Lama are the midfielders. Sunil Bal, Surajjiu Thakuri, Pujan Uparkoti and Ayush Ghalan and forwards are Abhishek Rijal, Anjan Bista, Navyug Shrestha and Ashish Lama. 

In the World Cup qualifiers, Nepal has so far won only one game and lost four games. Nepal, which is in Group B, is in the fourth position with three points. Chinese Taipei in the same group is scoreless. Australia tops the group with 12 points, followed by Kuwait with 10 points. Jordan is in third place with 10 points. Australia is ranked 41st, Jordan 95th, Chinese Taipei 141st and Nepal 171st in the FIFA rankings. 

Iraq's Alaa Abdul's free-kick was converted into a goal. But Nepal equalized in the eighth minute of the match. Ahmed Ibrahim Khalaf of Iraq scored a suicide goal for Nepal while clearing the ball struck by Anjan Bista. Nepal scored 4 goals in the first half and 2 goals in the second half.

Nepal scored another goal in the 29th minute but could not win due to weakness of the defense. Now the Nepali team will go to Kuwait today. Nepal will play the remaining matches of the World Cup qualifiers in Kuwait. Nepal will play Chinese Taipei in Kuwait on June 3, Jordan on June 7 and Australia on June 11.

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Agency: Finally, after 11 days of rocket and missile attacks, Israel and Palestine have reached a ceasefire. Israel's security cabinet has approved a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel said in an official statement that a ceasefire had been proposed by the cabinet and that it had been decided by mutual consent and unconditionally.

An official statement from Hamas said a ceasefire would be reached by mutual consent with Israel from 2:00 am local time (5:15 am Nepali time).

At least 232 people, including more than 100 women and children, have been killed in 11 days of fighting in Palestine, while 12 people, including two children, have been killed in Israel, according to the BBC. In the last 24 hours, 11 Palestinians, including two children, have been killed and 190 injured.

According to the United Nations, 91,000 people have been displaced by the war. Gaza's 16,800 homes were damaged, leaving 1,800 uninhabitable and more than 1,000 completely destroyed.

After the ceasefire, people took to the streets of Palestine to celebrate. They have posted photos and videos on social media.

After the ceasefire, the international community has also welcomed it. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the ceasefire a welcome and important step. He noted that this important step had saved hundreds of lives.

The United States has said it is ready to work with the United Nations to rebuild Gaza. He also said the United States would work with the Palestinian government to justify Hamas' involvement.

"Citizens of both Palestine and Israel have equal rights to security, freedom, democracy and prosperity," he said.