Indonesia’s $15B Free Meals Program Loses Second Chief


🇮🇩 BREAKING: The chief of Indonesia’s $15 billion free meals program has resigned for health reasons, marking the second leadership collapse for President Prabowo Subianto’s signature social initiative in less than two months. Nanik S. Deyang announced her departure from the National Nutrition Agency in a Facebook post Wednesday, saying she would depart the same day to undergo heart-related medical treatment abroad. 

Iran Attacks Amazon In Bahrain

‼️ BREAKING: Iran says it has struck an Amazon, $AMZN, datacenter in Bahrain in retaliation for a US attack on Iran’s Darkhovin nuclear project. Iran also says it targeted a US Military base in Jordan, claiming to have destroyed an F-15 fighter jet and missile defense radar system.

US Treasury Secretary Bessent says the US has frozen a $130 million crypto account linked to Iran’s IRGC

London’s Shrinking Market: $2B a Week Vanishes as M&A Eats the UK’s IPO Pipeline

‼️ 🇬🇧 The relentless pace of M&A in the UK means that the London market continues to shrink. The deluge of deals has seen the UK losing the equivalent of more than $2 billion a week, or £1.5 billion. It’s a negative for a market that has struggled to attract IPOs. It means that the disappearance of companies is not being replenished by a healthy pipeline of firms coming to market