U.S. airports as global aviation hubs, consider whether you want to avoid travel through the United States for as long as this policy is in effect or get...

Yameen withdrew the Maldives from the Commonwealth, and pivoted his foreign policy away from Maldives' traditional ally, India, to align more closely with...

of World War II in 1945 to its collapse in 1991, the Soviet Union was a global superpower, and the main geopolitical rival to the United States. See Cold...

leave their homes under housing policies that enforced racial segregation. The African National Congress (ANC) was banned and forced into exile for conducting...

tourists are prime targets for kidnapping. Many national governments have a policy of not paying ransoms for citizens who are kidnapped to avoid (effectively)...

Smoking is banned in sports stadiums, the only outdoor areas where this ban is extended. It is a finable offence. Separately smoking is also banned, in restaurants...

otherwise general ban) and electric bicycles are not on the whitelist. Those rules are created by ICAO and IATA and thus apply globally, even prior written...

the city's wealthiest and most pedestrian-friendly areas, the Bonifacio Global City (BGC), the McKinley Hill neighbourhood with its copies of Italy, and...

Nationalist Sinn Féin, whose policy platform is generally left-wing, and the Unionist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), whose policy platform is generally more...

and the 20ft scuplture 53.32928-6.208632 Awaiting the Mariner (An Cailín Bán), donated by the Mexican president in 2002. (updated Nov 2021) 53.31146-6...

over 600 million international visitors annually, more than half of the global market. Out of Earth's ten most visited countries, seven are in Europe,...

traditional western-style cigarettes. A ban on smoking has been instituted for public places in Jakarta. Anyone violating this ban can be fined up to US$5,000. Although...

private for-profit universities, and they generally have an open admissions policy, though their quality of education is often questionable, with many seen...

protectionist policies. High oil prices in the early 2000s brought about some form of economic buoyancy. While these actions and policies made Chávez a...

Vancouver) or the children of foreign-born. This tends to be a very popular policy, and while anti-immigrant sentiment certainly exists, it is decidedly in...

declare shouldn't worry. While no longer as ubiquitous as before due to ban on flights if a route is reachable by train within 2 1/2 hours, domestic...

was born. American consumer car culture truly took off in the 1950s, in a global market dominated by American car manufacturers such as Ford, General Motors...

fishing village during the late 12th century, Amsterdam catapulted into global prominence during the 17th century as a bustling trading hub. The city's...

homeless people are allowed to camp. Think of the fact that nojuku is not banned as a relief measure for those forced into homelessness, not as a relief...

inefficient, and unstable. Yeltsin pursued a highly controversial economic policy known as "shock therapy" which sought to transform Russia into a capitalist...