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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets well-wishers on Eid No breakthrough Paramedics in talks to end US shutdown WASHINGTON: Negotiations in Congress to end the fiscal deployed at impasse sputtered yesterday, leaving both chambers grasping for a way to reopen the govern- ment and raise the country’s borrowing authority with tomor- Eid venues row’s deadline drawing near. The Senate halted discussions on its own plan, as it waited for the Many seek emergency care at HMC fractious Republican-controlled House of Representatives to come DOHA: Hamad Medical food, doctors said. At least 10 of up with an alternative proposal Corporation’s emergency unit the above cases related to inju- ahead of the October 17 deadline, stationed individual paramed- ries suffered in road accidents. No when the US Treasury says the ics at a number of locations deaths were, however, reported. government will reach its borrow- across the city where Eid Al Among the injured were three ing limit. Senate leaders had been Adha celebrations were lined up Chinese nationals. One of them close to a deal that would reopen yesterday to tackle any medical was described by doctors to be in the government and raise the emergencies. a critical condition. debt limit until early 2014, while These locations included malls, The pedestrian trio, it seems, the initial alternative plan pro- public parks and places like Aspire was hit by a car on the Corniche posed by House Republican lead- Zone and Souq Waqif where large Road.