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Children attach flags of 2014 World Cup participant Argentina to the top of a building in Dhaka May 28, 2014. Millions of Bangladeshi football fans mostly support the national football teams of Argentina and Brazil.

In Bangladesh, the government doesn’t want you to show your World Cup colors

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Bangladesh’s national soccer team isn’t competing in the World Cup this year, so fans there are flying the colors of Argentina or Brazil — and that has put them afoul of the authorities. The artist behind “Calvin and Hobbes” returns, briefly. And Apple awaits a tax bill, in today’s Global Scan.Bangladesh’s national soccer team isn’t competing in the World Cup this year, so fans there are flying the colors of Argentina or Brazil — and that has put them afoul of the authorities. The artist behind “Calvin and Hobbes” returns, briefly. And Apple awaits a tax bill, in today’s Global Scan.

A painting of Calvin and Hobbes graces the wall of a comic book shop.

The famed, reclusive creator of ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ briefly returns to making comic strips

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