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Wales bans smoking at hospitals, schools, playgrounds

Wales became the first of the UK nations to make it illegal to smoke on hospital and school grounds, public playgrounds and other outdoor day care and childminding settings.

Indonesia bans politically influential FPI

Indonesia officially outlawed the politically influential Islamic Defenders Front, known by the domestic acronym FPI, headed by popular cleric Habib Rizieq Shihab, amid fears of rising tensions between the government and the group’s supporters.

Iran election HQ bans election ads as of Thursday morning

Spokesman for election headquarters of Iran said the office has banned running any election advertisements as of 08:00 hours local time on Thursday morning.

Pakistan bans Indian films from being screened in country

Pakistan said on Thursday it would ban the screening of Indian films in the country’s cinemas, as tensions between the two countries rise over the contested Kashmir region.

Finance minister says Iran no longer bans cryptocurrencies

Iran’s finance minister has said that the country is to fully legalize cryptocurrencies as the government moves to introduce regulations that would allow people to mine and trade digital currencies within certain limits.

Michigan loophole allows activists to push through abortion bans

Michigan is a state in which Democrats drubbed Republicans in the 2018 midterms, a Democrat governor has promised to veto anti-abortion legislation, and polling shows the population is solidly supportive of reproductive rights.

New York bans alcohol advertising on city property

New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio, issued an executive order on Tuesday banning alcohol advertising from city property, citing public health concerns.

Facebook bans white nationalism, separatism

Facebook has banned content promoting white nationalism and white separatism on its platforms, amid criticism that came after a white supremacist live-streamed his shooting of worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand on the social media network.

New Zealand bans military type semi-automatic weapons used in mosque massacre

New Zealand will ban military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws following the killing of 50 people in the country’s worst mass shooting, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.

EPA bans consumer sales of methylene chloride paint removers

The US Environmental Protection Agency said it had issued a final rule to prohibit the manufacture, import, processing and distribution of methylene chloride in all paint removers for consumer use.

Bill bans ‘abhorrent’ quizzing of domestic abuse victims in British courts

Domestic abusers will no longer be able to cross-examine their former spouses in family courts in the UK, under a comprehensive government package of reforms to tackle the issue.

Britain bans puppy, kitten sales by pet shops

Britain is forbidding puppies and kittens from being sold by pet shops in a bid to crack down on animal exploitation and abuse.

India’s oil imports from Iran rise 36% in face of US bans

India has reported a whopping jump in oil imports from Iran in October in face of US sanctions that officials in Washington earlier said were meant to bring the Islamic Republic’s crucial sales of oil to zero.

Tehran writes to IMO over illegal US bans on scores of Iranian ships

Tehran lodges a complaint with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) against the US over the re-imposition of sweeping sanctions, which target scores of Iranian ships as part of Washington's much-criticized push to cut off the country's oil exports.