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Workers clean the streets of Quito, Ecuador, after President Lenin Moreno and indigenous leaders reached an agreement to end nearly two weeks of violent protests against austerity measures adopted to obtain a multi-billion-dollar loan from the IMF. IMAGES
The automaker averted a strike after reaching a last minute tentative labor agreement. The union says it got "significant wage gains." Fred Katayama reports.
"There's still a lot of work to be done. But we continue to believe that an agreement is possible and indeed essential, and we will continue to work relentlessly to achieve it," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells reporters in Doha after being informed of the reply by Qatar. SOUNDBITE
Indian rescuers on Thursday began drilling into a debris-filled tunnel in a bid to reach dozens of people still missing since a flash flood likely caused by a breaking glacier on Sunday. IMAGES
General Motors gained as much as 8.9% to a record high on Tuesday. The gain comes on news that its autonomous vehicle subsidiary, Cruise, is receiving a large investment from Microsoft. Microsoft joins a number of companies in a $2 billion funding round for Cruise. Tuesday's price is a record-high for GM since it emerged from bankruptcy at the end of the Great Recession. The partnership will accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles. It brings together the two companies' software and hardware engineering expertise, cloud computing capabilities, and manufacturing knowledge.