WASHINGTON: After bitter New Year brinksmanship, the US Congress finally backed a deal to avert a "fiscal cliff" of tax hikes and massive spending cuts that had threatened to unleash economic calamity.
The House of Representatives late Tuesday passed a deal between the White House and Republicans to raise taxes on the rich and put off automatic US$109bil budget cuts for two months, lifting the clouds of immediate crisis.
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