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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s media regulator said Monday it blocked Wikipedia services in the country for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing purportedly blasphemous content from the site. Critics denounced Islamabad’s action, saying it was a blow to digital rights.

If you were on death row, what would be your final meal? The latest strange craze on TikTok has viewers asking themselves this question and submitting films revealing what they would eat in a less-than-ideal circumstance. @chai.lattes came up with “Diet Coke… chicken pad Thai, saltines, and D chocolate chip cookie dough.” 4ever list of curiously particular items.

Blasphemy is a criminal act in conservative Pakistan, where laws allow for the death penalty for anyone deemed to have insulted Islam or Islamic figures. A Pakistani man who attacked the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine last September was radicalised by videos of preachers in his home country and anti-France demonstrations at the time, a report said Wednesday. The 26-year-old had spent the days leading up to his knife attack watching extremist preachers on YouTube and TikTok denouncing France and Charlie Hebdo, Le Parisien newspaper reported, citing the police investigation. “I couldn’t eat. I was crying watching the videos,” Zaheer Hassan Mahmood told investigators.  Weeks before, the magazine had republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which were considered blasphemous by many Muslims, to mark the start of a trial of men linked to a 2015 attack on its offices. Mahmood said he did not realise the magazine had moved offices after the 2015 attack and presumed the t...