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US raid allegedly killed Syrian undercover agent instead of Islamic State group official 12/05/2025 08:28am • DUMAYR, Syria (AP) ��� A raid by U.S. forces and a local Syrian group aiming to capture an Islamic State group official instead killed a man who had been working undercover gathering intelligence on the extremists, family members and Syrian officials have told The Associated Press. The killing in Oc McLaren will consider team orders for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in F1 title decider 12/05/2025 08:24am • ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ��� CEO Zak Brown says McLaren could use team orders to manage the Formula 1 title fight if one of its drivers has a ���significantly better chance��� to win in Sunday's decisive Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. McLaren's Lando Norris leads the standings by 12 points from R German parliament approves pension package after a rebellion in Merz's party 12/05/2025 08:15am • BERLIN (AP) ��� Germany's parliament on Friday approved a pension reform package that had prompted a rebellion in the ranks of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's party, the latest instalment of a bumpy first seven months in office. Lawmakers in the lower house voted 319-225 in favor of the package, includ Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business for $72 billion 12/05/2025 08:07am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to buy the legacy Hollywood giant���s studio and streaming business for $72 billion. The acquisition, announced Friday, would bring two of the industry���s biggest players in film and TV under one roof. Beyond its namesake telev Renewed fighting in eastern Congo threatens 'historic' peace deal brokered by Trump 12/05/2025 08:06am • GOMA, Congo (AP) ��� Residents of eastern Congo said fighting has intensified despite a peace agreement that was signed by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents in Washingtion, D.C., with U.S. President Donald Trump in attendance. Presidents Felix Tshisekedi of Congo and Paul Kagame of Rwanda met wit Cauldron for Milan Cortina Winter Olympics lit at Italy's presidential palace with 2 months to go 12/05/2025 08:05am • ROME (AP) ��� A preliminary cauldron was lit by the Olympic flame at Italy���s presidential palace on Friday as the countdown to the Milan Cortina Winter Games approached the two-months-to-go mark. International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry and Italy President Sergio Mattarella were i Cloudflare investigates outage that brought down sites including Zoom and LinkedIn 12/05/2025 08:04am • MADRID (AP) ��� Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it was investigating an outage that took place in the morning that brought down several global websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and others, the second such crash to affect the company in less than three weeks. Cloudflare sai Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, actor who performed in 'Mortal Kombat,' has died at 75 12/05/2025 08:01am • SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) ��� Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, a Tokyo-born actor known for his roles in the film ���Mortal Kombat��� and TV series "The Man in the High Castle" has died. He was 75. Tagawa died surrounded by his family in Santa Barbara from complications due to a stroke, his manager, Margie We Australia takes 44-run lead in second Ashes test after England drops 5 catches 12/05/2025 08:01am • BRISBANE, Australia (AP) ��� Australia built a 44-run first-innings lead after two days of the second Ashes cricket test, with the top order all getting starts Friday to help the hosts reach 378-6 at stumps. Five dropped catches and some wayward bowling dented England's momentum, and allowed Austral What boycotting looks like 70 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott 12/05/2025 07:49am • MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) ��� Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. ���Don���t ride the bus to work, to town, to school Flights at Edinburgh Airport resume after brief shutdown due to an IT issue 12/05/2025 07:39am • LONDON (AP) ��� Flights resumed Friday at Edinburgh Airport after a brief shutdown due to computer problems in the air traffic control system. The airport says the outage was a localized issue that was not related to an outage by the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare. That outage brought do Burkina Faso plans to restore death penalty for treason, terrorism, espionage 12/05/2025 07:39am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) ��� Burkina Faso���s Council of Ministers has adopted a bill to restore the death penalty, targeting offenses such as treason, terrorism, and espionage, authorities said. ���The adoption of this bill is part of reforms ... to have a justice that responds to the deep aspirations India withdraws pilot restrictions after largest airline cancels flights and disrupts airports 12/05/2025 07:37am • NEW DELHI (AP) ��� India's aviation watchdog temporarily rolled back restrictions on airline crew duty hours, days after the previous order disrupted operations at major Indian airports as the country���s biggest airline, IndiGo, scrambled to restore normal services. The new regulations mandated lon Around the world, refugees are shut out of the US by Trump's new policies 12/05/2025 07:36am • When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program on day one of his current administration, thousands of people around the world who'd been so close to a new life in America found themselves abandoned. As part of Trump's crackdown on legal and illegal migration, the Republican president has Hollywood meets the Middle East as Red Sea International Film Festival opens in Jeddah 12/05/2025 07:35am • JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) ��� The fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival, one of the Middle East���s largest film festivals, opened Thursday in the coastal city of Jeddah, marking a significant moment for the kingdom���s growing film industry. Running from Dec. 4 to 13, the Red Sea