Agreement averts a threatened Treasury default and will reopen the government after a partial, 16-day shutdown.

House-Senate talks are barely touching the underlying causes of debt-and-spending stalemates that pushed the country close to economic crises.

The measure provides only a temporary truce, and the next clash between Obama and Republicans over spending and borrowing will likely be early next winter.

Nearly 50 are missing after deadly mudslides buried people and destroyed homes on a Japanese island.