An Australian senator who has long campaigned for the Islamic women's garment known as the burqa to be banned in the country has been suspended from parliament for a week for her protest on Monday in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pauline Hanson of the anti-immigration One Nation party was seeking to introduce a bill in the Senate that would ban full face ...

There’s a burqa burglar is on the loose in the Big Apple. The NYPD is on the lookout for a burqa-wearing bandit who broke into a Queens home last week and made off with a cache of jewelry — then ...

A senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban has been barred from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber. Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of ...

MEBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban was barred Tuesday from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber.

Australia’s Parliament erupted into chaos Monday when right-wing populist Sen. Pauline Hanson entered the chamber wearing a burqa, prompting outrage from Muslim lawmakers and forcing a suspension of ...

Women in the western Afghan city of Herat say they're being told by Taliban officials that they must wear a burqa to access the main hospital. Doctors Without Borders is reporting a 28 percent drop in ...

An Australian far-right lawmaker wore a burqa to Parliament on Monday, drawing outrage from fellow senators who accused her of racism. Sen. Pauline Hanson appeared in the burqa, a full-face covering ...

Archbishop Joan Planellas i Barnosell of Tarragona. Image credit: Conferencia Episcopal Española c/o:José Cruz – https://www.flickr.com/photos/50702712@N05 ...

Debates around the hijab in India have intensified legal and social tensions, but confusion between the hijab, burqa, and ...