Indonesia spent 4.4 trillion rupiah ($270.35 million) by June 12 on President Prabowo Subianto's flagship programme to give students and expectant mothers free meals, just 2.6% of this year's allocation, finance ministry data showed on Tuesday.

Ali Shadmani, Iran’s wartime Chief of Staff and a close associate of Ayatollah Khamenei, was reportedly killed in an Israeli airstrike on a command center in Tehran, escalating the regional conflict.