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4B Daily News – Saturday, December 3, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Jobless rate falls to 8.6 percent WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate, which has refused to budge from the 9 percent neighborhood for two and a half frustrating years, fell sharply in November, driven in part by small businesses that finally see reason to hope and hire. Economists say there is a long way to go, but they liked what they saw. The rate fell to 8.6 percent, the lowest since March 2009, two months after President Barack Obama took office. Unemployment passed 9 per- cent that spring and had stayed there or higher for all but two months since then. The country added 120,000 jobs in November, the Labor Department said Friday. Private employers added 140,000 jobs, while governments cut 20,000. The economy has generated 100,000 or more jobs five months in a row — the first time that has happened since April 2006, well before the Great Recession. Cain says announcement about bid coming ATLANTA (AP) — Rapidly becoming a mere footnote in the presidential race, Herman Cain sent mixed signals Friday on whether he would abandon his beleaguered White House bid on Saturday after a woman's allega- tion of an extramarital affair. He said he would make a ''major announcement'' on whether he would press on — at an event still being billed as the grand opening of a new headquar- ters. It is the latest — and perhaps final — twist in a campaign saga that has taken the Georgia busi- nessman from unknown longshot to surprise frontrunner to embat- tled tabloid subject. He arrived at his suburban Atlanta home on Friday afternoon to talk with his wife of 42 years, Gloria, about whether to press on after his campaign was rocked by multiple sexual harassment allega- tions and this week's claim that he had a 13-year affair. He denies wrongdoing. It was their first face- to-face meeting since the allega- tion was made public. Earlier, in a speech in Rock Hill, S.C., Cain wouldn't disclose whether he would drop out but told supporters to stay tuned. He said he would clarify the next steps of the campaign and assured backers the affair claim was ''garbage.'' But he also said he needed to consider what he would do with campaign donations already banked if he dropped out of the race. Islamists push for religious rule CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ultra- conservative Islamist party said Friday it plans to push for a stricter religious code in Egypt after claiming surprisingly strong gains in this week's initial round of vot- ing for parliament, the first elec- tions since Hosni Mubarak's ouster. Egypt's election commission announced only a trickle of results Friday and said 62 percent of eli- gible voters cast ballots in the highest turnout in Egypt's modern history. Abdel-Mooaez Ibrahim, the head of High Election Com- mission, jokingly described it as ''the highest since the time of pharaohs.'' Preliminary counts leaked by judges and individual political groups indicated that the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm took the largest share of votes. Follow- ing closely behind, was the ultra- conservative Islamist Nour Party and a coalition of liberal parties called the Egyptian bloc, accord- ing to those unofficial counts. That trend — if confirmed and if extended over more rounds of voting — would give the religious parties a popular mandate in the struggle to win control from the ruling military that took over from Mubarak and ultimately reshape a key U.S. ally. The Islamist Nour Party expects to get 30 percent of the vote, party spokesman Yousseri Hamad told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Green Zone bombing was assassination BAGHDAD (AP) — An explosion earlier this week in the Green Zone, a protected area in the center of the Iraqi capital, was an assassination attempt against the Iraqi prime minister, an Iraqi spokesman said. That assailants were able to get a bomb inside what is sup- posed to be the most heavily for- tified area in the country raises serious doubts about the abili- ties of Iraq's security forces at a crucial time when American troops are leaving the country. The Baghdad military spokesman, Qassim al-Mous- sawi, said an attacker was able to get a vehicle carrying about 44 pounds (20 kilograms) of explosives into the Green Zone and then tried to join a convoy of other vehicles going into the parliament grounds. But at a checkpoint leading into the parliament compound, guards prevented the driver from going any farther because he did not have proper autho- rization. The driver then drove to the parking lot just opposite the parliament entrance where many lawmakers or their staff park, and the vehicle exploded seconds later. 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