WORLD HIGHLIGHTS

►Russia MOSCOW

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the structure of Russia’s new government.

Russia's defence ministry said yesterday its air defence systems destroyed six attack drones and two ballistic missiles that Ukraine launched overnight targeting Russian territory.

►Canada OTTAWA

Thousands of people are out of their homes in Canada's western province of British Columbia due to a raging wildfire, local media reported on Saturday.

►Greece ATHEN

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be received today in Ankara by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the latest sign of warming relations between the NATO neighbours.

►Spain BARCELONA

Catalonia was holding a regional election yesterday whose outcome will reverberate in Spain’s national politics.

►Poland WARSAW

A fire broke out yesterday morning in a vast shopping center housing 1,400 shops and service outlets in the Bialoleka district in Poland's capital.

►Indonesia JAKARTA

At least eleven people were killed and dozens more were injured when a bus carrying high school students on a graduation trip crashed on Indonesia's biggest island, police said yesterday.

►Nepal KHATMANDU

Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for the 29th time yesterday, breaking his own record for the most summits of the world's highest mountain.

►Japan TOKYO

The ratio of teleworkers in Japan continued to fall as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes while more turn to "hybrid work" combining remote work and in-office work, a fiscal 2023 government survey showed.

►Cambodia TAKEO

Laos yesterday handed over a pair of rare Asian elephants to Cambodia in order to further deepen the bond of friendship and solidarity between the two countries and peoples.

►New Zealand WELLINGTON

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5. 3 hit Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at 0326 GMT yesterday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. AGENCIES