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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve ever “flipped the bird,” you have something in common with ancient Greeks. It was around 2,500 years ago that the naughty Greeks developed a phallic gesture to offend, taunt and literally poke each other. While throwing up a middle finger today clearly communicates a resounding “f**k you,”

CNN By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — More than 40 senior former Israeli national security officials, celebrated scientists and prominent business leaders have sent a letter to Israel’s president and speaker of parliament demanding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be removed from office for posing what they say is an “existential” threat to the country. The signatories on the letter include four former

CNN, KHARKIV REGION PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE, TELEGRAM, @AVBOGOMAZ , AFPTV, MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES, UST-LUGA ONLINE, Telegram/@avbogomaz / AFPTV By Darya Tarasova, Teele Rebane, Radina Gigova, Victoria Butenko, Josh Pennington, Andrew Carey and Maria Kostenko, CNN (CNN) — Shelling killed at least 28 people and injured 30, including two children, near a market in the Russian-controlled city of

By Amir Tal, Mitchell McCluskey, Hagi Cohen-Boland and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Israel has offered a two-month ceasefire to Hamas as part of a prospective hostage deal, Axios reported Monday, citing two unnamed Israeli officials. It would be “the longest period of ceasefire that Israel has offered Hamas since the start of the war,”

CNN By Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Millions tuned in across India to watch the opening of a vast Hindu temple on Monday, in a ceremony considered to be the crowning moment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist ambitions months before he seeks to win a rare third term in elections. The

By Lianne Kolirin and Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — A British man long suspected of killing the wife of a famous French film producer in Ireland has died at age 66, according to his lawyer. Back in 2019, the Paris Criminal Court convicted Ian Bailey in absentia of the murder of TV producer Sophie Toscan

By Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae and Heather Chen, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Seoul’s police chief has been indicted for negligence over the 2022 crowd crush that killed more than 150 people during Halloween festivities in the popular Itaewon neighborhood that left the nation reeling. South Korean police on Monday confirmed that Kim Kwang-ho, head

By Helen Regan and Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Millions tuned in across India to watch the opening of a vast Hindu temple on Monday, in a ceremony considered to be the crowning moment for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist ambitions months before he seeks to win a rare third term in elections. The inauguration

By Nectar Gan, Wayne Chang and Xiaofei Xu, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The death toll from a landslide in southwest China has risen to 31, state media reported Tuesday, as rescue workers comb mud, snow and rubble in search of survivors. The landslide hit the mountain village of Liangshui in Yunnan province shortly before

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Manila’s notorious traffic became a major theme of Coldplay’s visit to the Philippines, with frontman Chris Martin penning a song about the “insane” jams, and the country’s leader coming under fire for taking a chopper to one of the band’s two concerts near the capital. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos