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Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
The US Senate votes to keep federal agencies funded and avoid a costly partial government shutdown. IMAGES
"Shutting down Les Soulèvements de la Terre (ed: Uprisings of the Earth) would mean the leaders of this country are trying to dissolve the environmental and social movement," explains Benoît Feuillu, an activist with the collective, ahead of the hearing of France's State Council, which is due to examine the legality of the dissolution. SOUNDBITE
"There is still a chance" of avoiding a government shutdown, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
The US Senate votes in favor of a stopgap funding bill, in a rare show of cross-party unity to keep federal agencies running into 2022 and avert a costly holiday season government shutdown. With the clock ticking down to the 11:59 pm Friday deadline, the Senate votes by 69 to 28 to keep the lights on until February 18 with a resolution that had already advanced from the House of Representatives. IMAGES
The US House of Representatives votes to keep federal agencies running for another 11 weeks and avoid a costly holiday-season government shutdown, although the stop-gap measure faces a thorny path in the Senate. IMAGES
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