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KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened higher today after the United States (US) averted government shutdown, suggesting improved risk appetite sentiment, leading to a weaker US dollar.
LONDON (Reuters) -London's Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday and ordered a probe into how it dealt with a power outage that shut Europe's busiest air hub for almost a day as airlines warned of further delays and cancellations.
LONDON (AFP): Heathrow Airport is "fully operational", a spokesman says, a day after a fire at a power station shut down Europe's busiest air hub and caused travel mayhem.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats huddled for hours on Wednesday plotting a course forward on a stopgap funding bill passed by the Republican-controlled House, with only two more days remaining before a partial government shutdown would be triggered.
WASHINGTON, March 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate on Friday approved a stopgap bill that will keep government funding at current levels until September just hours before current funding is set to expire, averting a government shutdown.
LONDON (Bloomberg): Heathrow airport suffered its worst disruption in at least two decades after a nearby fire cut power to the hub and brought travel to a standstill for hundreds of thousands of passengers.
NEW YORK: Asian equities retraced early losses and US equity-index futures climbed Friday (March 14) as signs the US will avoid a government shutdown injected a boost to sentiment.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Friday passed a stopgap spending bill, averting a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress looked set to move ahead this week to keep the government funded and avert a partial shutdown beginning on Saturday, as Washington is rocked by President Donald Trump's rapid moves to slash federal agencies.
WASHINGTON, March 14 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate on Friday approved a stopgap bill that will keep government funding at current levels until September just hours before federal funding is set to expire, averting a government shutdown.
GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday that unprecedented cuts in donor funding this year will force it to scale back or shut down projects around the world, resulting in a severe impact on migrants.
WASHINGTON: US president Donald Trump has signed a stopgap funding bill that keeps the government open for the remainder of the fiscal year, paving the way for Republican lawmakers to pivot to signature border and tax bills they seek to pass in the coming months.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department has ordered the shutdown of overseas missions of U.S. Agency for International Development and is working to recall thousands of staff worldwide, two sources familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday.
VILNIUS, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Baltic electricity prices on the Nord Pool exchange were driven up by low renewable energy generation, the malfunction of the EstLink 2 cable between Finland and Estonia, higher consumption, and rising natural gas prices, a leading energy official said on Tuesday.
General Motors (GM) Co is cutting almost half of the workforce in the Cruise driverless car unit, according to an internal memo and people familiar with the matter, part of a previously announced plan to halt robotaxi service and absorb the operations into its broader business.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A partial government shutdown could cost the U.S. travel industry $1 billion per week and lead to widespread disruptions for travelers, a trade group representing airlines, hotels and other travel companies said on Friday.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has decided to extend to April 18 the shutdown of Muan international airport where a Jeju Air passenger jet crashed last month, the transport ministry said on Saturday.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Coco Gauff wrote "RIP TikTok USA" and drew a broken heart on a camera lens shortly after reaching the Australian Open quarter-finals on Sunday after the popular app used by 170 million Americans stopped working in the United States.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Brian Schatz said on Monday he would block Senate votes on President Donald Trump's nominees for diplomatic positions in protest over moves to close the U.S. Agency for International Development and fold it into the State Department.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's parliament has passed a provisional budget that allows the government to spend 68.1 billion Ghanaian cedis ($4.65 billion) through March, the chamber's speaker said, narrowly averting an unprecedented government shutdown.
