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NEW YORK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Kelly Toth was "very relieved" when her four sons went back to school in person at the end of August after more than a year of pandemic restrictions.

WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Washington is racing to avert a partial government shutdown that could lead to furloughs for hundreds of thousands of federal workers in the middle of a national health crisis.

(Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday to hold discussions with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the situation in Yemen, the Associated Press reported.

LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Britain has no plans yet to get the army to drive trucks to deliver fuel to petrol stations after a shortage of drivers strained supply chains, Environment Secretary George Eustice said on Monday.

Sept 27 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia on Monday to hold discussions with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the situation in Yemen, the Associated Press reported.

LONDON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Up to 90% of British fuel stations ran dry across major English cities on Monday after panic buying deepened a supply chain crisis triggered by a shortage of truckers that retailers are warning could batter the world's fifth-largest economy.

BEIJING, Sept 27 (Reuters) - China strongly condemned Britain on Monday for sailing a warship through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, saying it was behavior that "harbored evil intentions" and that the Chinese military followed the vessel and warned it away.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met senior ministers from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in New York on Sunday, his office said, ahead of an address to the United Nations in which he is expected to urge action against Iran's nuclear programme.