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Indonesian authorities have announced that they will request that Facebook and messaging platform Whatsapp remove LGBT emojis and online stickers.

"Social media must respect the tradition and local wisdom of the country where they have [a] large numbers of users," Ismail Cawidu, a spokesperson for Indonesia's ministry of information and communication, said on Wednesday.

"Those things might be considered normal in some Western countries, while in Indonesia it's practically impossible," he said.

Homosexuality is legal in the Muslim-majority country but same-sex relationships are not openly welcomed.

Japanese messaging service LINE's Indonesia branch has already removed its LGBT emojis from its app after receiving complaints from users and has even apologized for having them in the first place. As of the origin of 2015, Line had more than 600 million users, with Indonesia its second-biggest user base with 30 million users, according to Quartz.

"LINE regrets the incidents of some stickers that are considered sensitive by many people," the messaging app said in a statement, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

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Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe has taken a bizarre swipe at U.S. President Barack Obama following the Supreme Court's decision to legalize gay marriage across America last week, sarcastically promising to travel to Washington and ask for his hand in marriage.

Following the 5-4 Supreme Court conclusion, which was widely lauded across the western society, the 91-year-old leader, famous for his fiercely anti-homosexuality stance, said he would "get down on my knee and ask [Obama's] hand" before condemning marriage equality.

Mugabe made the comments during his weekly radio interview with the country's national radio station, ZBC, on Saturday.

"I've just concluded since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people and enjoys an attractive countenance thus if it becomes necessary , I shall tour to Washington DC, acquire down on my knee, and ask his hand," he said.

"I can't grasp how this people dare to defy Christ's explicit orders as our Lord prohibited mankind from sodomy," he added.

He also claimed that Washington was entity controlled by "perverted Satan-worshippers who insult the excellent American nation", according to Nigerian news website Naij.c

6 of the top scoring encrypted messaging apps

You could be forgiven for thinking encryption was "the new black." Encryption is so en vogue even Whatsapp wants in on the action. Its ruling to deploy end-to-end encryption was only a matter of when.

And it's certainly good for Whatsapp subscribers.

With tech firms in the US apparently fighting the good combat against surveillance-happy authorities, we consumers can delight in a warm and cuddly feeling that they've got our backs.

Whatsapp's shift follows Apple's recent face-off with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Apple refused to indulge a court order to break into the iPhone of California shooter, Syed Rizwan Farook. The advance was hailed all curved. Facebook, which owns Whatsapp, joined a chorus of giants, including Google and Twitter, supporting Apple's stance. (In the end, the FBI says it hacked Farook's phone all on its own.)

Meanwhile, in Europe a flaming row continues over the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill and the EU-US Privacy Shield, which may replace "Safe Harbor," a dusty, 20 year old agreement on data protection as it flows between the two "partners."

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