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A headscarf ban in basketball is benching players in France. A new bill could make it law
Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines ...
AP PHOTOS: A new bill banning headscarves could keep athletes off the court
Thousands of young Muslim women in France are sidelined from competitive sport because of rules in several disciplines ...
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American WWI troops honored on France’s former battlefields in Memorial Day tribute
Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme ...
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Operation Torch: The Liberation of French North Africa
After the Fall of France and the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940, Allied leaders looked to target French colonial ...
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Local paratrooper killed after D-Day landings 81 years ago
At the annual meeting of the Fairmount Cemetery Association in May 1939, Bob Haseltine Jr. was appointed as the official caretaker. Nine years later, he was buried in the back row.