Canada offered support on Thursday to boost Ukraine’s air defenses and help replenish its drone stocks, as the countries pledged to deepen their alliance during a visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Canada PM Carney hosted the president of Ukraine in Calgary in the western province of Alberta, where the Canadian prime minister grew up among a large community of people with Ukrainian heritage. That deal, to be negotiated over the coming months, aims to codify cooperation in a range of areas, including defense, critical minerals and energy.

Carney said Canada was also offering C$450m in loan guarantees to enhance the Ukrainian energy supply, which will help repair damaged infrastructure, increase storage capacity and improve power supply to hospitals.

Zelenskyy told reporters that the drones will be helpful for Ukraine to survive the war. Asked about potential negotiations to ease the fighting, Zelenskyy said he did not anticipate any substantive talks during Russia’s ongoing election period, but has planned to meet Trump in New York City in late September, probably on the sidelines of the UN general assembly, with Washington bidding to revive long-stalled talks to end the war.

In the latest sign that Japan’s patience with mass tourism is wearing thin, Shinjuku ward – home to the notorious Kabukicho nightlife district and the world’s busiest railway station – will prevent visitors from using private lodgings in residential areas and near schools and important cultural sites, Japanese media reported this week.

The measure, to be introduced through a local ordinance, could encourage other local authorities to follow suit. Shinjuku, with a regular population of more than 350,000, is home to 3,775 private lodgings – or minpaku – the largest number anywhere in Japan.

While tourism has boosted sectors of Japan’s economy and raised the country’s profile overseas, the surge in visitor numbers has created tensions with residents in popular destinations such as Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Reports said officials had been forced to act after receiving more than 1,300 complaints from residents in the 12 months to March. Many cited disruption caused by visitors who did not dispose of their rubbish properly, made too much noise and smoked in areas where it is banned. There have also been reports of trespassing.

Shinjuku ward believes the measure will affect as many as 2,000 lodgings in residential areas – almost half the total, according to the Mainichi Shimbun. The mayor, Shigeru Horiuchi, said the decision had been taken to “protect the dignity and living environment of our citizens”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening to sue one of his country’s newspapers, after it reported he was warned of Hamas’s deadly October 7, 2023, attacks more than a week before they were launched.

On Tuesday, newspaper Haaretz published a report detailing a conversation between Mr Netanyahu and United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed 10 days before October 7, in which the sheikh warned him that Hamas was planning an imminent attack.

Sheikh bin Zayed said it would lead to bloodshed and could destabilise the region and undermine the Abraham Accords, the normalisation agreements between Israel and several Arab and Muslim-majority nations, the newspaper reported. Haaretz said that warning was not passed on to Israeli defence or intelligence officials.

Netanyahu rejected the report as a lie, saying there was no phone call with the Emirati president at any point in September or early October 2023 and that it was an attempt to smear him before the Israeli election next month. His lawyers have written to the newspaper threatening a libel suit, but Haaretz insists it stands by its reporting.

The United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Ministry also said that it would not comment on “speculation regarding conversations between government leaders”.