US government shutdown averted hours before deadline
US Congress approved a stopgap funding bill Thursday in a rare show of cross-party unity to avert a crippling government ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.