headscarf

While polls indicate Macron is ahead they also point to a far tighter race between the centrist and the far-right leader than in their 2017 run-off.

Marine Le Pen says her pledge to ban the headscarf in all public spaces will be enforced by police in the same way as seatbelt-wearing in cars.

Zuraida Kamaruddin says the athlete's attire had nothing to do with her performance.

In strongly secular France, religious symbols are frowned upon in politics.