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JERUSALEM – Israel’s Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni has set an ultimatum: Either she will have a new government ready by Sunday or she will call for early elections. Livni said Thursday that she had spoken with Israeli President Shimon Peres and informed him of her decision. Livni still has 10 …

WASHINGTON – Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse. In the cross hairs of the campaign carried …

MOSCOW – Russian news reports say the military has commissioned another batch of new intercontinental ballistic missiles. Russian news agencies quote a statement from the Strategic Missile Forces as saying the Topol-M missiles were put on duty Wednesday in Teikovo. The news agencies say the missiles are mounted on heavy …