ban

Russian government officials propose legislation to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2015. 

The North Korean government bans sarcastic speech against itself or Kim Jong-un. 

Authorities in France and Scotland are taking very different approaches to Islamic dress in their societies.

Saudi clerics see Pokemon Go as anti-Islamic and full of forbidden symbols and ideas (like evolution!), so have renewed their 2001 fatwa on it.

Norway, Europe's largest petroleum producer, makes an unprecedented commitment to green energy.