Congress is again scrambling to pass a spending bill to temporarily fund the government, known as a continuing resolution, to avert another government shutdown that could begin at the end of the week.

Now with the text out, the current plan puts the entire timeline – having lawmakers read the text, advancing it to the Rules Committee and getting to a floor vote – in the span of a week. With time no longer on their side, a failure at any stage could result in a shutdown.

Officials from the party of Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila have been invited to appear before a military prosecutor on Monday in a sign of political tensions over Rwanda-backed rebels' advances in the east.