Russian hacker group known as "Turla" piggyback Iranian cyberespionage operation to attack government and industry organizations in dozens of countries, mostly in the Middle East but also in Britain, say US and British intelligence agencies. Intelligence officials says there is no evidence of collusion between Turla and its Iranian victim, a hacking group known as "APT34."

Speaking to reporters at a briefing in Moscow, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says question of a presidential pardon for Naama Issachar, who was sentenced by Russia to 7.5 years in jail for drug smuggling, "was touched upon in one way or another" during a phone call between the Russian and Israeli leaders on Monday.

In yet another sign of Gulf Arab states, Israel transcending longtime enmities to focus on common threat posed by Iran, head of Foreign Ministry's counterterrorism department attends maritime security conference in Manama.

PM: "I made every effort to bring Benny Gantz to the negotiating table, every effort to establish a broad national unity government, every effort to prevent another election. He simply refused." Gantz, whom Rivlin is now set to task with forming government, to likely face equally difficult task.

From Oslo to London to Sydney to Washington, courts and senior jurists hold that it is impermissible to criminalize or even set limits on relations between politicians and the media.