From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to Amazon and Apple, U.S.-based multinationals are facing calls for a boycott in India as business executives and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's supporters stoke anti-American sentiment to protest against U.S. tariffs.

Rights advocates said Anas Al Sharif had been targeted for his frontline reporting on the Gaza war and Israel's claim lacked evidence.

Ripple will buy stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200 million, the company said on Thursday, weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a law that raised expectations cryptocurrency tokens are about to enter the mainstream.

Trump said Lip-Bu Tan was "highly conflicted" after questions arose about his ties to Chinese firms.

Cheniere Energy on Thursday reported a second-quarter profit that nearly doubled, driven by steady demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and robust margins, and said it has signed a LNG supply deal with Japan's biggest power generator.