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Washington (CNN) -- It's been 17 years since the last government shutdown. The next one might be just an hour or so away. For the second time Monday, the Senate has rejected a House Republican effort…

By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON | Mon Sep 30, 2013 (Reuters) - With a deadline to avert a federal government shutdown fast approaching, the U.S. Capitol was eerily quiet on Sunday as…

By Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington. The number of Americans giving up their citizenship has rocketed this year - partly, it's thought, because of a new tax law that is frustrating many expats.…

By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON | Sat Sep 28, 2013 (Reuters) - With conservative House Republicans promising not to back down on an emergency spending bill in a push to defund President Barack Obama's…

By John Irish and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS | Sat Sep 28, 2013 (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday that demands the eradication of Syria's chemical weapons but…

By John Irish and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS | Fri Sep 27, 2013 (Reuters) - Ending weeks of diplomatic deadlock, the United States and Russia agreed on Thursday on a U.N. Security Council draft…

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and James Macharia NAIROBI | Thu Sep 26, 2013 (Reuters) - Interpol issued a wanted persons alert at Kenya's request on Thursday for a British woman who has been cited by British…

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): The militant group behind the takeover of a Nairobi mall claimed yesterday that a Kenyan government assault team carried out "a demolition" of the building, burying 137 hostages…

By James Macharia and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI | Tue Sep 24, 2013 (Reuters) - As Kenya began three days of mourning on Wednesday for at least 67 people killed in the siege of a Nairobi mall, it was…

By Richard Lough and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI | Tue Sep 24, 2013 (Reuters) - Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group said on Tuesday its militants were still holed up in a Kenyan shopping mall they attacked…

By Jennifer Saba Mon Sep 23, 2013 (Reuters) - Apple Inc said it sold 9 million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c models in their first three days on the market, the most successful iPhone launch ever. Apple…

By Duncan Miriri and Richard Lough NAIROBI | Mon Sep 23, 2013 (Reuters) - Gunfire and explosions sounded on Monday from the Nairobi mall where militants from Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group…

By Duncan Miriri and James Macharia NAIROBI | Sun Sep 22, 2013 (Reuters) - Kenya said its security forces were in control of most of the Nairobi shopping mall where at least 68 people were killed by…

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) The Mexican government searched for victims and continued assessing the damage yesterday from the one-two punch of storms Manuel and Ingrid, as a missing Federal Police…

By Euan Rocha TORONTO | Sat Sep 21, 2013 (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd warned on Friday it expects to report a huge quarterly operating loss next week and that it will cut more than a third of its global…