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• 7. WHAT TRIGGERED A DIPLOMATIC ROW BETWEEN INDIA AND THE US
• An Indian diplomat was strip-searched after her arrest for filing false visa information on her New York housekeeper.
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• 8. MORE TYPHOON AID FOR PHILIPPINES
• Secretary of State John Kerry pledges an additional $25 million of relief while touring the devastated city of Tacloban.
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• 9. HOW A BLIND MAN SURVIVED BEING HIT BY A SUBWAY TRAIN
• The New York City man says his guide dog barked and tried to keep him from falling while witnesses called for help.
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• 10. FACEBOOK BLAMED FOR PIER PLUNGE
• A tourist glued to her Facebook feed was rescued after falling off a jetty in Australia.
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AP News in Brief
Bipartisan budget pact aimed at ending budget showdowns nears Senate OK, Obama's signature
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- A modest, bipartisan budget pact designed to keep Washington from lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis and ease the harshest effects of automatic budget cuts is on the brink of passing the Senate.
• The Senate is on track to clear the bill Wednesday for President Barack Obama's signature after a 67-33 vote Tuesday in which it easily hurdled a filibuster threshold.
• The measure would restore $45 billion, half the amount scheduled to be automatically cut from the 2014 operating budgets of the Pentagon and some domestic agencies, lifting them above $1 trillion. An additional $18 billion for 2015 would provide enough relief to essentially freeze spending at those levels for the year.
• The bill advanced Tuesday with the help of 12 Republicans, several of whom promised to oppose the measure in Wednesday's final vote because it fails to take on the nation's most pressing fiscal challenges. It would barely dent deficits that are predicted to lessen in the short term but grow larger by the end of the decade and into the next.
• One provision, cutting the inflation increases of pensions for military retirees under the age of 62, was proving to be especially unpopular. Members of the military (Continued on page 22)
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