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The US Senate votes to keep federal agencies funded and avoid a costly partial government shutdown. IMAGES
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
Arnaud Rousseau, President of the FNSEA, France's top farmers' union, welcomes Marc Fesneau, the French Agriculture Minister, to the 78th FNSEA Congress in Dunkirk, northern France, at a time when the beginning of the year has been marked by a vast movement of anger in the farming world. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden says during his State of the Union address that Ukraine is capable of stopping Putin if the US provides Kyiv the "weapons it needs to defend itself." SOUNDBITE
Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives at the National Congress in Buenos Aires to make his first policy speech. Since taking office in December, Milei has clashed with an opposition-dominated parliament over his mega-bill to introduce sweeping changes to the crisis-riddled economy. IMAGES
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urges members of the US Congress to approve a Ukraine aid package. "We should be standing up for freedom, standing up for the right of this country to defend itself and making sure that Putin doesn't win," he says while on a visit to Bulgaria. The Republican leader of the US House of Representatives blocked war aid for Ukraine on February 13, ignoring President Joe Biden's plea that passing the bill was vital for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. SOUNDBITE
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