The two-piece "burqini," popular in the Middle East, is proving key to a reshaping surf lifesaving Down Under – once a bastion of white Australian culture and still a heartland of the country's ...

June 21 (UPI) --France's highest administrative court is upholding a ban on burqini swimsuits in the southeastern city of Grenoble's public pools, the court announced Tuesday. The ruling reversed ...

Paris - A Paris swimming pool has refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a "burqini", a swimsuit that covers most of the body, officials said on Wednesday. The pool ban came as French lawmakers ...

When I wrote a largely personal, impressionistic piece last week about the burqini, it elicited one of the most charged reactions I’ve seen about anything I’ve written. The piece—or at least ...

Much has been made over the French government’s back and forth about a woman’s right to wear a burqini – a burqa/bikini combination made so Muslim women can go to the beach in a more ...

Local governments had imposed the bans in the name of secularism because, for some, the burqini seemed an unwelcome display of religion threatening the basic French ideals of liberty, equality and ...

The ban before the court doesn't actually mention the word burqini, like most of them. It's actually a ban on anyone who wears swimwear that displays "religious affiliation" and "could create ...

Critics of local French bans on full-body burqini swimsuits have filed legal challenges, forcing the country's highest administrative authority to investigate Thursday whether such bans are ...

Five French beach towns have recently banned the burqini, a modest swimwear option associated with Muslim women. Officials have cited fears about public safety to justify the policies, noting that ...

Advertisement The Council of State, France's highest administrative court, will consider a request Thursday by the French Human Rights League to abolish the burqini bans. The controversy ...

Being modest in France is a crime. The burqini is the latest in a long line of Muslim-related-clothing that was recently banned by the French government, which is notoriously known for its bans on ...