The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — but at least they are fiction.

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Since retaking power, the Taliban has banned certain music, barred women from parks, and now outlawed chess. Authoritarians ...

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The Taliban has suspended Afghans from enjoying a game of chess over concerns that the game might be incompatible with Islamic law and encourage gambling, international media reported this week.

Taliban authorities have barred chess across Afghanistan until further notice over concerns it is a source of gambling, which is illegal under the government's morality law, a sports official said ...