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Nations of the world confront the Pokemon menace
Some security authorities warn that the game is the latest tool used by spy agencies in the intel war
Published Thu, Jul 21, 2016 · 09:50 PM
New York
POKEMON Go, the wildly popular augmented-reality smartphone game expanded officially into 26 more countries this week, even as some security and religious authorities around the globe expressed alarm.
In Saudi Arabia, clerics renewed an existing fatwa against Pokemon, calling it "un-Islamic". Bosnia has warned players to avoid chasing the creatures onto land mines left over from the 1990s.
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