A Troubled Land

At least nine people died and 13 were injured in Afghanistan recently when bomb blasts blew up their mini-buses in Mazar-e-Sharif. "The targets appear to be Shiite passengers," a police spokesman told Agence France-Presse. "The enemies of Afghanistan are creating tension and division among our...

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Whodunit?

Spanish authorities found that the phones of the country’s prime minister and defense minister were both infected with the Pegasus spyware less than a month after a previous investigation found that the Israeli software was used to snoop on Catalan separatist leaders, the Guardian reported...

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Pointing Fingers

Pakistani authorities charged former Prime Minister Imran Khan and 150 other individuals with blasphemy this week, a move that critics called an effort by the new government of using religion “as a tool” to intimidate political rivals, Voice of America reported. Officials said that the charges...

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Not Playing Fair

European Union regulators accused Apple of breaking the bloc’s competition laws Monday after preliminary findings showed that the tech giant misused its dominant position in mobile payments to deny competitors access to contactless technology, the Financial Times reported. EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said the company...

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No Relation

Australia’s dingoes look like dogs but have no strong relation with the domesticated canine, according to a new genetic study. Scientists found that the dingo’s genome is very different from that of dog breeds and that the canine species have never been domesticated, New Scientist reported. Dingoes...

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