* Spanish voters head to the polls on Sunday in regional and municipal elections, the results of which will serve as a barometer for an end-of-year general election.
* Somalia will start electing its president and other officials by direct vote next year, the government announced on Sunday, ending a system of indirect voting in the Horn of Africa country that has endured three decades of conflict and clan battles.
* U.S. White House and Republicans on Saturday reached an "agreement in principle" to raise the debt ceiling to avert a possible default amid deep partisan divide and global concerns.
* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new parliament building on Sunday, which has come up just next to the nearly 100-year-old colonial-era building in the heart of the Indian capital.
* Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a two-day visit, semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, two days after Muscat mediated a prisoner swap between the Islamic Republic and Belgium.
* Civil servants working for the British government's Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency plan to strike for 15 days starting on June 11, a union representing them said on Sunday.
* Afghan acting Prime Minister Mawlawi Abdul Kabir has stressed having positive relations based on mutual respect with the world community, a local television channel the Tolonews reported.
* Afghanistan's acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi has stressed the need to resort to dialogue to resolve issues between Kabul and Tehran in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the local television channel Tolonews reported Sunday.
* Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched his plan to fix the country's aged care, disability, veterans and early childhood services.
* An air route linking south China's coastal city of Haikou and Apia, capital of Samoa, was launched on Sunday, marking the start of a regular direct flight between the two countries.
* Thailand received one million Chinese tourists between January and May 18, a government official said on Sunday, after China's border reopening.
* Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM said on Sunday it will ship 40.3 million cubic metres of gas to Europe via Ukraine, compared with 40.7 mcm on Saturday.
* Mexico's economy grew 3.7 percent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2022, according to revised figures released by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) Friday.
* The United Nations on Saturday declared that it has decided to temporarily pause the use of dual currency for next month's disbursement of cash assistance to Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
* Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) caused 121 civilian casualties in Yemen during the first quarter of 2023, according to a report released by the Yemen branch of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Saturday.
* Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said late on Saturday there had been casualties during an attack by Somalia's Islamist group al Shabaab on a military base manned by Ugandan peacekeepers in the Horn of African country on Friday.
* Ten people were killed and ten others injured when an avalanche hit a convoy of nomads in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region on Saturday, an official confirmed.
