Official says top leaders respond to ultimatum from PM and will approve series of measures, including scrapping new taxes and privatizing major companies

Rights group says at least 12 white supremacists and 2 Islamic extremists arrested in US on allegations of plotting, threatening or carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in last year

Tens of billions of dollars at stake after failure of last-minute efforts to reach settlement between companies and plaintiffs

Polls indicate PM's Liberal Party could lose to the rival Conservatives, or fail to achieve a majority and be forced to rely on an opposition party to remain in power

AG said likely to have to determine whether a decision to charge the PM, now that he has failed to form a coalition, would affect his right to stay in office

Tweet posts missive written in the style of Trump's 'don't be a fool' letter to Erdogan, claiming it was 'found in the archives'

In his new Necessary Story, Haim Watzman ponders father-son relations while channeling Neil Young and Israel’s second-best writer of short fiction

Sonar images reveal Japanese carrier Akagi resting in nearly 18,000 feet of water, 77 years after its sinking