France's lower house of Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to ban Muslim women from wearing a full veil in public. It targets, in particular, veils that obscure a woman’s entire face ...

immediate ban on women wearing face-covering Islamic veils at universities. The ban follows a similar ruling by the lower house of France's parliament this month. But unlike France, Syria is an ...

And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and to be mindful ... Displayed only in black. A veil for the face that exposes only the eyes, sometimes obscured by a separate eye veil.

Reporting from Paris — The French lower house of Parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a ban on wearing face-covering veils in a public place. The legislation, part of an ongoing ...

At the time, a lower court ruled in favor of el-Zeini, saying she had a right to go into the university wearing a niqab, the Islamic full face veil that leaves only a slit for the eyes.

Switzerland's lower house of parliament narrowly backed a ban on face veils Tuesday, echoing moves by neighboring France and other European nations to tighten controls in the wake of Islamist ...

Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, approved a similar draft law last month that would prohibit wearing the full-face veil at work for civil servants, judges and soldiers. Sponsor Message German ...

Some women have vowed to wear a full-face veil despite the law. The proposed law was passed overwhelmingly by the lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, on July 13. The expected green ...

NANTES, France – NANTES, France (AP) — A woman driver wearing an Islamic face veil ... UMP in the lower house of parliament, submitted a proposed bill on banning the veil.

PARIS France’s lower house of Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to approve a ban on the wearing of veils that cover the face in public places. The draft bill, only seven articles ...

France's lower house of parliament has approved a ban on the full-face Islamic veil in public places, making it the second European country to do so after Belgium. France's Assemblee Nationale ...