The leader of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Friday the downing of an Israeli jet in Syria last week was a "very big military achievement".

Israel said it launched air strikes against air defences and Iranian targets in Syria on Saturday and the Syrian army claimed to have hit an Israeli F-16 that crashed in northern Israel in a major escalation of tension.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo chats with a farmer in a rice paddy field in Sumedang, West Java province, Indonesia in this photo taken by Antara Foto on Thursday.