Stock futures pointed higher following a down week, as investors were optimistic a deal was near to end the record U.S. government shutdown.

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Twenty years ago, a genocidal campaign in the Darfur region of Sudan shocked the world. Now, videos and images of new atrocities have captured global attention once more. Declan Walsh, who has been ...