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World
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International
3/23/2024 12:47:51 PM
The US Senate passed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills in the early morning hours of Saturday, a long overdue action nearly six months into the budget year that will push any threats of a government shutdown to the fall. The bill now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
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World
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International
3/19/2024 4:36:42 PM
US President Joe Biden voiced support Tuesday for a deal struck by leaders in Congress to finalize the 2024 federal budget and avoid a damaging election-year partial shutdown ahead of Friday's deadline.
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World
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International
2/27/2024 9:22:33 PM
US President Joe Biden implored the top four leaders of Congress Tuesday to act quickly to avoid a looming government shutdown early next month and to pass emergency aid for Ukraine and Israel, as a legislative logjam in the GOP-led House showed no signs of abating.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/1/2024 6:17:30 PM
The UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees said Thursday that international funding cuts may force the shutdown of its operations across the region "by the end of February".
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Egypt
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Tourism
11/12/2023 10:01:00 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Civil Aviation reported on Sunday that it has effectively thwarted an attempt to breach the Cairo International Airport website.
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Business
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Economy
10/2/2023 9:56:00 AM
Asian shares were mostly higher in thin trading Monday with many markets closed for holidays.
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World
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International
10/1/2023 7:56:21 PM
Rep. Matt Gaetz said Sunday he will try to remove House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a fellow Republican, from his leadership position this week after McCarthy relied on Democratic support to pass legislation that avoided a government shutdown. “Bring it on,” McCarthy responded.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/1/2023 6:42:45 PM
Ukraine said Sunday it was working with Washington to ensure new wartime aid after US lawmakers dropped additional funding for Kyiv in a last-minute deal to avoid a government shutdown.
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World
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International
9/30/2023 10:38:08 PM
Last gasp moves to prevent a US government shutdown took a dramatic step forward Saturday, as Democrats overwhelmingly backed an eleventh-hour Republican measure to keep federal funding going for 45 days, albeit with a freeze on Washington's massive aid to Ukraine.
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World
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International
9/30/2023 8:16:58 PM
With the US government just hours from shutting down on Saturday, Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy pitched a last-gasp stopgap measure to avoid a closure that would throw into doubt everything from access to national parks to Washington's massive support for Ukraine.
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World
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International
9/30/2023 9:50:45 AM
The United States is heading toward a government shutdown this weekend with no foreseeable way out of a deadlock in Congress over hardline Republican calls for deep spending cuts.
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World
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International
9/29/2023 6:35:33 PM
US national parks, from the iconic Yosemite and Yellowstone in the west to Florida's Everglades swamp, will close to the public from Sunday in the increasingly likely event of a federal government shutdown.
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World
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International
9/28/2023 9:35:06 PM
The US government has begun to inform workers of an impending shutdown that could see millions of federal employees and military personnel sent home or working without pay, unless Congress reaches a last-ditch deal.
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Business
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Economy
9/27/2023 10:50:53 PM
The United States is heading toward a government shutdown this weekend with no foreseeable way out of a deadlock in Congress over hardline Republican calls for deep spending cuts.
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Business
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Economy
9/25/2023 10:20:22 AM
Four months after barely avoiding a catastrophic default, the world's largest economy is once again on the verge of a major fiscal crisis.
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World
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International
9/24/2023 10:52:20 AM
President Joe Biden on Saturday blamed "a small group of extreme Republicans" for a budget impasse that has placed the US government a week away from a shutdown, urging the lawmakers to resolve the issue.
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World
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Region
8/20/2023 2:58:21 PM
Iraqi authorities on Sunday ordered the shutdown of LED advertisement screens installed across Baghdad after a hacker managed to show a pornographic film on one, security forces said, announcing the arrest of a suspect.
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World
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Region
7/16/2023 5:08:33 PM
Oil production has resumed at two major Libyan oil fields, the oil ministry said Sunday, after a brief shutdown by demonstrators protesting the arrest of a former minister.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
7/13/2023 3:46:20 PM
Hollywood actors were poised to go on strike Thursday, joining writers in the first industry-wide shutdown in 63 years after last-ditch talks failed, with nearly all film and television production likely to grind to a halt.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/10/2023 4:09:05 PM
Ukraine’s military reported intense fighting with Russian forces on Saturday, while the country's nuclear energy agency said it put the last operating reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant into a “cold shutdown” for safety as Russia's war on Ukraine drags on through its 16th month.
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