British schoolgirls in French hostel scare
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Three British schoolgirls were allegedly assaulted by a man after he crept into their French hostel room as they slept, their headmaster said today.
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Two French journalists freed from a four-month hostage ordeal in Iraq came home Wednesday, saying they had feared for their lives sometimes
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Iraqi militants have kidnapped two Frenchmen to protest France&#39;s ban on students wearing Islamic head coverings in public schools, according to a tape aired by Al-Jazeera television.
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A group of young German women used so much spray deodorant in the bathroom of a North Sea youth hostel that it set off a fire alarm and brought the local fire brigade rushing to the rescue, police said Monday.
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PARIS  - France has quietly begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves to public schools in defiance of a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols, treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq.
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STRASBOURG, France  - A Muslim schoolgirl bowed to  France's ban on Islamic headscarves in state schools on Friday  by returning to class and removing her veil to reveal a head  shaved bald in protest.
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PARIS - Millions of French students returned to school Thursday as a new law banning Islamic head scarves from classrooms goes into effect amid demands by Islamic radicals holding two French hostages in Iraq that the law be scrapped.    Muslim leaders in France, who had largely opposed the law, urged calm for the return to class...
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School doors open for 12 million French children Thursday, but there is far more at stake this year than back-to-school jitters.
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The operation sparked a public outcry after it was revealed that terrified children screamed and cowered as the squad stormed the nursery in a village in the south of France.
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MULHOUSE, France, Oct 20  - Three more Muslim schoolgirls were expelled in France Wednesday for flouting a controversial law on the wearing of religious insignia in schools.
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A British woman and her daughter were feared dead after a fire in a Paris apartment building over the weekend, while a second daughter remained missing, police said Sunday.
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Several hundred Britons were flown out of the Ivory Coast yesterday amid claims that dozens of European women had been raped by rioters.
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BAGHDAD/PARIS  - A French Muslim delegation in  Iraq said Thursday they had proof that two French hostages held  by Islamic militants were alive, even though France refused to  lift a ban on Muslim headscarves as the school year began.
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A French Muslim delegation in Iraq said Thursday they had proof that two French hostages held by Islamic militants were alive, even though France refused to lift a ban on Muslim headscarves as the school year began.
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By Katie Jones  South Wales Echo  One of two Cardiff schoolgirls seen fighting in a sick video posted on the internet has been given the equivalent of a police caution.
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Emma-Jane Kirby shares an evocative trip down memory lane with a woman who, as a young girl, was part of the French Resistance in London.
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A photo raises hopes  -  which are subsequently dashed  -  of the possible sighting of the missing British girl in Morocco