"These three women aged 39, 23 and 19 had been radicalised, were fanatics and were in all likelihood preparing an imminent, violent...

  Migrants' efforts to force their way through the Channel Tunnel or to stow away aboard trucks have disrupted traffic between...

  UN urged French seaside towns and resorts that had adopted similar bans "to repeal them immediately."

It "would be unconstitutional, ineffective and likely to create antagonism."  

  The burkinis did not pose any threat to public order, said the council, which is France's highest administrative court.

 

 

 

 

 

  "If anything, [the ban] is more likely to alienate and upset moderate Muslims."

  The ban was decided out of "respect for good customs and secularism", a founding principle of the French republic.

 

 

Six others are injured, one of whom suffered burns to nearly 90 percent of the body