Saudi state television reported Malaysia's president said any attempt to attack Mecca would be absolutely unacceptable.

Netanyahu said Israel is facing a global campaign portraying the state and Israeli soldiers as war criminals and depicting Israel as a persecutor of minorities.

JERA, one of the world’s largest LNG buyers and part of Japan’s biggest power producer, is seeking to expand long-term LNG sales overseas to absorb surplus volumes and broaden its global business, Jera Global Energy Solutions CEO Irtiza Sayyed said the company is looking to identify markets where additional volumes can be sold. Many Asian buyers are shifting to non-Gulf suppliers after ongoing Middle East fighting disrupted ultra-cold fuel shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, which handled about one-fifth of global flows, prompting contracts with exporters outside the Persian Gulf to reduce transit risk.