An official in Nice, France, is threatening to sue social media users who share photos and videos of police enforcing a new burkini ban, claiming the photos led to defamation and threats against the ...

Amy Clancy's illustration shows three women wearing three different items of swimwear. One wears a bikini and swim cap and stands atop the word "oui" ("yes" in French). The next woman is wearing a ...

(Reuters) - On the second day of her stay at the Marriott Hotel in Sousse, Jannette Mensi waded into the swimming pool only to be told by hotel staff that she would have to get out due to her choice ...

Marks and Spencer has been selling versions of these "burkinis" — or modest bathing suits covering the entire body besides the face, hands and feet — in its international stores for years, according ...

It is very difficult to understand the uproar caused by the French government’s decision to ban the burkini. This was a reaction to the chaos and turmoil caused by the Islamic fundamentalist sect in ...

France, which likes to call itself the cradle of human rights, is caught in a debate on whether or not to ban the wearing of “Burkini’s” on beaches and the republic’s highest court is studying the ...

The "burkini," a bathing suit for Muslim women who want to keep their hair and bodies covered while swimming or at the beach, has been around for more than a decade, but it caused a worldwide outcry ...

That’s how some women working in the Islamic fashion industry view the furor in France over burkinis, the body-concealing swimsuit that has been banned in a growing number of seaside towns. “I am ...

The French Riviera resort Cannes was the first to temporarily ban the burkini — full-body swimwear Muslim women wear at public beaches and pools — on July 28, in the wake of multiple terrorist attacks ...