Players capture the many types of Pokemon and then use them to battle on teams for control of locations known as gyms. "Pokemon can be found in every corner of the earth," the app tells users when they download the game.And that is precisely the problem. President Reuven Rivlin of Israel posted a photo on Facebook of a Pokemon in his office with the caption "Somebody call security personnel. Many users on Twitter shared what purports to be an image of a dead Pikachu amid rubble in Gaza. 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.

Source: Times of India July 21, 2016 08:48 UTC