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One new cream liquor from Spain has shot up in popularity thanks to an energetic political movement and clever name. Asturian entrepreneur Ruben Lavandera Moris recently launched a Catalan cream flavoured liquor named Article 155 in reference to events surrounding the recent Catalan independence referendum and bottles have flying off the shelves. So many orders have been placed online that his website collapsed.
The US Senate votes to keep federal agencies funded and avoid a costly partial government shutdown. IMAGES
The US House of Representatives votes to raise the federal debt limit, moving the country a step closer to eliminating the threat of a calamitous credit default -- just five days ahead of the deadline set by the Treasury. The deeply divided lower chamber of Congress voted 314 to 117 to suspend the borrowing cap through 2024, and the Senate is expected to follow suit before the end of the week. IMAGES
President of the Popular Party and leader of the opposition in Spain Alberto Nuñez Feijoó votes on Sunday morning in regional and local election. IMAGES
US senators dealt a death blow Wednesday to President Joe Biden's push to defend voting rights against what Democrats frame as an all-out assault by conservative states targeting racial minorities. Facing a Republican blockade, the ruling Democrats were unable to push through two major bills already passed by the House of Representatives, or trigger the "nuclear option" of doing away with the 60-vote threshold required to advance legislation in the 100-member chamber. 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
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