France’s highest administrative authority is studying whether local bans on full-body “burkini” swimsuits are legal, amid growing concerns in the country and abroad about police forcing ...

After much anger and protest worldwide, France’s top administrative court overturned the burkini ban on August 26, the Associated Press reported. Height of absurdity: Nice police seem to force ...

Criticism on the burkini ban from the Jewish mainstream would be embarrassing to France’s hard-line prime minister, Manuel Valls, who supported the ban as a measure against radical Islam and who ...

Burkini-Ban Debate In France Rages On, Despite Summer's End : Parallels The full-body swimsuit is now part of the French presidential campaign. Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, who supports the ...

This week, an appeal of one locality’s burkini ban is being heard by France’s supreme court in Paris. The implications of the ruling will stretch to all the other towns with bans too.

French court overturns burkini ban on France beaches 04:06. PARIS --France’s top administrative court overturned a burkini ban in a Mediterranean town, in a decision Friday that should set legal ...

The controversy began last week, when a women's group from Marseilles advertised a "burkini day" at a local waterpark. The event, which would have banned men over the age of 10 as well Sign In ...

But France’s predominant argument is that the burkini violates France’s century-old commitment to promote secularism in public life.

To many Middle Eastern women, the burkini is an elegant compromise between faith and freedom. But to others, it’s a social ...

Tunisian women, one (R) wearing a "burkini", a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women, walk in the water at Ghar El Melh beach near Bizerte, north-east of the capital Tunis, Aug. 16, 2016.