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'Dark day': Congo rebels kill 2 health agents fighting Ebola 10/20/2018, 9:52:14 PM JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Congo's health minister calls it a "dark day" for everyone fighting the deadly Ebola outbreak after rebels shot and killed two medical agents with the Congolese army who had been assisting health officials. The statement late Saturday says Mai Mai rebels surged from the forest and opened fire on the unarmed agents with the army's rapid intervention medical unit at an entrance to Butembo city. It is not immediately clear whether this is the first time health workers have been killed in this outbreak. ISIS rebels ‘LIQUIDATED’ and driven out of Syria for good, Russia says 10/20/2018, 8:05:11 PM ISIS has been wiped out forever in the war-torn country of Syria, the Defence Minister for Russia has claimed. ✔ At a meeting with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Mr Shoigu said Russia’s relentless air strikes in the region had resulted ...

How GM went from bankrupt and on the brink of death to being one of the world's best-run car companies 10/20/2018, 6:13:17 PM A decade after the financial crisis, General Motors is led by the best management team it's ever had and one of the best C-suites in business. CEO Mary Barra, president Dan Ammann, and vice-president Mark Reuss have overseen the birth of a New GM that's defining the future of transportation. ✔ A decade after the financial crisis, General Motors is led by the best management team it's ever had and one of the best C-suites in all of business ✔ If we're all in the office, we talk multiple times a day, Barra tells me while sitting in the same ultramodern talent-acquisition suite where I had interviewed Ammann From Ford to Volkswagen, rivals become frenemies to share the cost of building self-driving cars 10/20/2018, 9:09:21 PM The sheer cost and technological burden of developing self-driving cars, electric vehicles and other advancem...