Belarus: Where even clapping is illegal

feature King Henry V may have been a hero to Shakespeare, but he’d be a war criminal in today’s Britain.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15

feature Many Turkish lawmakers say the Ergenekon trial was nothing but an excuse for the prime minister to put away his rivals and silence his critics.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15

feature Amazon is running what amounts to a labor camp right here in Germany.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15

feature Now that a law in favor of gay marriage is actually being drafted, we’re seeing the president’s will buckle.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15

feature The generals who declared a “state of war” and sent tanks into the streets in 1981 have now been held accountable for perpetrating a national trauma, said Agaton Kozinski at Polska.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15

feature The Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or Basque Homeland and Freedom, announced last week that it was giving up violence.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15

feature Many Frenchmen doubt the National Assembly's law against the covering of the face while in public will be fully enforced.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15

feature The Swiss rejected a new gun-control law that would have forced them to turn in their army-issue guns for storage in public arsenals.

By The Week Staff Last updated 8 January 15