Netanyahu's Likud says it has control of half of parliament
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party said on Wednesday it had signed up 60 of parliament’s 120 lawmakers for a potential coalition, still short of a majority as a midnight deadline to form a new Israeli government loomed.