Russia Today Pokémon no-GO for Egypt's Muslims as Islamic institution issues fatwa on game One of Egypt's most influential religious bodies is unimpressed by Pikachu and his pals, reportedly issuing a fatwa against the hugely popular Pokémon GO mobile phone game. Deputy chief of the Al-Azhar Islamic institution, Abbas Shuman, condemned the augmented reality game and said it was a "harmful mania," even going as far as to compare playing it to being drunk, according to Gulf News. "This game makes people look like drunkards in the streets and on the roads while their eyes are glued to the mobile screens leading them to the location of the imaginary Pokémon in the hope of catching it," Shuman said. Since the game was launched this month for iPhone and Android devices, it has overtaken Facebook and Snapchat for the amount of time people spend on the app. The game has already prompted data security and personal safety concerns elsewhere. Read more: https://www.rt.com/viral/351643-egypt-pokemon-go-fatwa/ NBC News Egypt Blocks U.N. Call to Respect 'Democratically Elected' Turkish Government The United Nations Security Council failed on Saturday to condemn the violence and unrest in Turkey after Egypt objected to a statement that called on all parties to "respect the democratically elected government of Turkey," diplomats said. The U.S.-drafted statement, seen by Reuters, also expressed grave concern over the situation in Turkey, urged the parties to show restraint, avoid any violence or bloodshed, and called for an urgent end to the crisis and return to rule of law. Statements by the 15-member Security council have to be agreed by consensus. "We proposed different language that respects democratic and constitutional principles but the Americans refused to engage," Egypt's U.N. Ambassador Amr Aboulatta told Reuters. After the United States and Britain objected to the proposed change to the text, Egypt proposed that the council call on the parties in Turkey to "respect the democratic and constitutional principles and the rule of law," diplomats said. Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/turkey-military-coup/egypt-blocks-u-n-call-respect-democratically-elected-turkish-government-n610941 The Wall Street Journal Egypt Says ‘Fire' Clearly Audible on EgyptAir Cockpit Voice Recording Egyptian officials on Saturday disclosed that the word "fire" is clearly audible on the cockpit voice recording from EgyptAir Flight 804, but safety experts and a person involved in the investigation said there are no clear-cut answers so far about the sequence of events that brought down the jetliner almost two months ago. Data downloaded from the Airbus A320's black boxes, these people said, at this juncture haven't provided conclusive information about where the fire started or why it apparently spread so quickly that it may have overwhelmed the crew and knocked out key electronic circuits, possibly affecting the black box recording devices themselves. As a result, they said, barring some sudden breakthrough, investigators are preparing for a long slog to determine why the plane, cruising in the early morning hours over the Mediterranean Sea, crashed without a distress call from the cockpit, killing all 66 people on board. Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/egypt-says-fire-audible-on-egyptair-cockpit-voice-recording-1468695419
