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WASHINGTON – Last-minute efforts to extend an expiring unemployment compensation program collapsed in Congress on Wednesday, confronting hundreds of thousands of jobless workers with the loss of benefits during the Christmas season. Senate Republicans and Democrats alike blamed the House GOP for the impasse, and Majority Leader Tom Daschle urged …

CANBERRA, Australia – The Australian government on Tuesday said it had received a “credible” terrorism threat linked to Usama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network. It did not say what the threat was. The message was similar to threats received in recent days by the United States and Britain, Justice Minister …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – President Saddam Hussein ordered the Iraqi parliament to hold an emergency session to discuss a U.N. Security Council resolution that again calls on the country to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction or face “serious consequences,” Iraqi media reported Sunday. The report on al-Shabab TV, owned by …