September 25, 2016
5:17 pm

French soldiers on patrol along the famed Promenade des Anglais in Nice, southern France, on Sunday, July 17, 2016, three days after a truck mowed through revelers, killing at least 84 people. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Two teen girls held in Nice over alleged terror plot

Source close to investigation says pair confessed they planned ‘violent attack,’ later abandoned idea

By AFP

September 12, 2016
4:43 am

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls makes a statement following a security meeting with French President Francois Hollande on July 15, 2016 at the Elysee Palace in Paris, a day after a gunman smashed a truck into a crowd of revelers celebrating Bastille Day in the city of Nice. (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)

France warns of threats as boy arrested in feared attack

Some 15,000 people in the terror-afflicted country could be in the process of being radicalized, PM says

By Elaine Ganley

September 6, 2016
2:42 pm

A Tunisian woman wearing a "burkini," August 16, 2016. (FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)

French PM blasts NY Times piece on burkinis

France is proud of Muslims, but modest swimwear is ‘proselytizing,’ Valls says

By AFP

August 31, 2016
1:04 pm

Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix

Bare breasts ‘symbolize freedom,’ French PM declares in latest burkini twist

Manuel Valls rekindles Muslim clothing controversy, saying topless revolutionary icon Marianne ‘is not veiled because she is free’

By Sue Surkes

August 27, 2016
6:34 pm

Nissrine Samali, 20, gets into the sea wearing a burkini, a wetsuit-like garment that also covers the head, in Marseille, southern France, August 4, 2016. (AP Photo, File)

Why burkini swimsuits are causing controversy

After crackdown, top French court sets legal precedent in ruling that ban of full-body beachwear is a human rights violation

By Angela Charlton

August 27, 2016
4:59 pm

Women join a demonstration organized by "Stand up to Racism" outside the French Embassy in London on August 26, 2016 against the burkini ban on French beaches. (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis)

French resorts defiant as top court suspends burkini ban

Beach towns vow to continue fining women wearing full-body swimsuit despite court ruling overturning the ‘clearly illegal’ restriction

By Claudine Renaud and Aurelia End

August 26, 2016
6:21 pm

People, gathered for New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) summer meeting, hold a banner reading "Against forbidding the wearing of the burkini" as they march in front of Port-Leucate city hall to protest against the municipal ban forbidding the wearing of Burkinis, on August 25, 2016. (Raymond Roig/AFP)

France’s top court suspends controversial burkini ban

Amnesty welcomes ruling, blasts ‘pretense that such measures protect rights of women’; Muslim group hails ‘victory for common sense’

By Aurelia End

August 25, 2016
11:14 pm

A woman wearing a burkini joins a demonstration outside the French Embassy in London on August 25, 2016, during a 'Wear what you want beach party' to protest the ban on the swimwear on French beaches, and to show solidarity with Muslim women. (AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS)

French president, PM double down on burkini ban

Day before court set to rule on prohibition, Hollande says everyone should ‘stick to rules,’ while Valls rails against ‘sign of religious proselytizing’

By AFP and AP

August 24, 2016
10:17 am

Women on beach with one, left, wearing a burkini, a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women. (AFP/FETHI BELAID)

Beach burkinis stoke France’s long debate on secularism

Opponents of ban on Islam-conforming beachwear say secular cause is being used as an excuse to control Muslims

By Elaine Ganley

August 23, 2016
5:39 pm

Tunisian women, one wearing a 'burkini,' a full-body swimsuit designed for Muslim women, swimming at Ghar El Melh beach near Bizerte, northeast of the capital Tunis, August 16, 2016 (AFP/Fethi Belaid)

Paris rabbi backs burkini ban in face of Muslim ‘takeover’

Jewish women find ‘other solutions’ to swim in public places modestly, says Rabbi Moshe Sebbag

By JTA

August 20, 2016
11:12 am

French towns ban Muslim women’s beach ‘burkini’

Prohibition of Islamic full-body swimsuit sparks disdain across the Channel, with experts saying move hinders integration

By Robin MILLARD

August 17, 2016
12:11 pm

A woman gets into the sea wearing a burqini in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo, File)

French prime minister backs local burqini bans, urges calm

3 Riviera towns have prohibited the modest Muslim swimwear on their beaches

By AP

August 7, 2016
7:00 pm

Illustrative photo of a French police officer and a soldier on patrol, January 13, 2015. (AFP/PHILIPPE HUGUEN)

Syria-bound relative of Charlie Hebdo terrorist arrested

Brother-in-law of Cherif Kouachi, who was behind deadly attack on French satirical magazine, was detained in Turkey last month

By AFP

July 31, 2016
2:32 pm

A Muslim woman looks on as people attend Mass in tribute to priest Jacques Hamel in the Rouen Cathedral on July 31, 2016. (AFP/Charly Triballeau)

French Catholics, Muslims join in prayer to mourn priest

Thousands attend mass near Normandy town where two jihadist teens brutally murdered Jacques Hamel, 85, last week

By Hervé LIONNET

July 31, 2016
1:53 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Netanyahu accuses France of funding anti-Israel groups

As Paris weighs ban on foreign financing of mosques, PM orders probe into French-sponsored organizations that ‘incite’ against Jewish state, encourage boycotts

By Tamar Pileggi

Topic: Manuel Valls

Two teen girls held in Nice over alleged terror plot

Source close to investigation says pair confessed they planned ‘violent attack,’ later abandoned idea

France warns of threats as boy arrested in feared attack

Some 15,000 people in the terror-afflicted country could be in the process of being radicalized, PM says

French PM blasts NY Times piece on burkinis

France is proud of Muslims, but modest swimwear is ‘proselytizing,’ Valls says

Bare breasts ‘symbolize freedom,’ French PM declares in latest burkini twist

Manuel Valls rekindles Muslim clothing controversy, saying topless revolutionary icon Marianne ‘is not veiled because she is free’

Why burkini swimsuits are causing controversy

After crackdown, top French court sets legal precedent in ruling that ban of full-body beachwear is a human rights violation

French resorts defiant as top court suspends burkini ban

Beach towns vow to continue fining women wearing full-body swimsuit despite court ruling overturning the ‘clearly illegal’ restriction

France’s top court suspends controversial burkini ban

Amnesty welcomes ruling, blasts ‘pretense that such measures protect rights of women’; Muslim group hails ‘victory for common sense’

French president, PM double down on burkini ban

Day before court set to rule on prohibition, Hollande says everyone should ‘stick to rules,’ while Valls rails against ‘sign of religious proselytizing’

Beach burkinis stoke France’s long debate on secularism

Opponents of ban on Islam-conforming beachwear say secular cause is being used as an excuse to control Muslims

Paris rabbi backs burkini ban in face of Muslim ‘takeover’

Jewish women find ‘other solutions’ to swim in public places modestly, says Rabbi Moshe Sebbag

French towns ban Muslim women’s beach ‘burkini’

Prohibition of Islamic full-body swimsuit sparks disdain across the Channel, with experts saying move hinders integration

French prime minister backs local burqini bans, urges calm

3 Riviera towns have prohibited the modest Muslim swimwear on their beaches

Syria-bound relative of Charlie Hebdo terrorist arrested

Brother-in-law of Cherif Kouachi, who was behind deadly attack on French satirical magazine, was detained in Turkey last month

French Catholics, Muslims join in prayer to mourn priest

Thousands attend mass near Normandy town where two jihadist teens brutally murdered Jacques Hamel, 85, last week

Netanyahu accuses France of funding anti-Israel groups

As Paris weighs ban on foreign financing of mosques, PM orders probe into French-sponsored organizations that ‘incite’ against Jewish state, encourage boycotts

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