PARIS, France (AP) – The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons – a measure some are decrying as a discriminatory anti-Muslim ...

— A senior Paris rabbi defended a string of controversial municipal bans in France on wearing publically the full-body swimsuit known as burkini. Moshe Sebbag, the rabbi of the Grand Synagogue of ...

PARIS — The city of Nice, still shaken by last month’s deadly extremist attack, has joined a growing list of French sites to ban the body-covering burkini swimsuit. Leading officials argue that the ...

The French resort town of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons — a measure some are decrying as a discriminatory anti-Muslim move that only ...

PARIS—A top French court ruled against allowing head-to-foot swimsuits at public pools in the southeastern city of Grenoble, the latest move amid a debate over how to balance France’s values of ...

(Reuters) The cities of Cannes and Villeneuve-Loubet also have banned the burkini, arguing that the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies French laws on secularism. PARIS ...

The French Riviera city of Cannes has banned beachgoers from wearing a swimsuit designed for Muslim women, called a burkini, citing the recent Islamist violence. Going into effect late last month, a ...