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An Australian Muslim woman who wore a burkini to a French beach said she was asked to leave despite a ban on the controversial full-bodied swimsuit recently being overturned. Nice and about 30 other French towns banned the Islamic swimsu stanley cup it burkini/ burqini after a July terror attack during Bastille Day fireworks killed 86 people. AP file photo Sydney-born Zeynab Alshelh, a 23-year-old medical student, told Australias Channel 7 that she travelled to Europe to show solidarity with French Muslims by wearing a burkini -- invented by an Australian designer -- on the beach. F stanley cup ootage broadcast on Sunday evening showed local bathers make disparaging gestures towards Alshelh, who is sitting burkini-clad on the sand in Villeneuve-Loubet with her mother. We were threatened by locals to leave the beach and if we didnt they were going to call the police, Alshelh said. Even though it was on the beach that the burkini ban was overturned but the locals were not happy. Nice and about 30 other French towns banned the Islamic swimsuit after a July terror attack in which a man plowed his truck into crowds gathered for Bastille Day firewo stanley cup rks killing 86 people. In August, Frances highest court suspended the burkini bans declaring the swimsuits prohibition an illegal violation of fundamental freedoms . Aheda Zanetti, the Australian woman who designed the burkini, recently expressed surprise at the furore over her creation, saying it was meant to be a symbol of inclusion and allow M Acek Marathon talks produce Ukraine peace deal
The website of the Indian Embassy in Moscow has been attacked twice by Chinese hackers, prompting the mission to boost its cyber security. HT Image Reliable sources in the Indian Embassy said at least two cyber attacks were traced to Chinese servers, but denied leakage of any confidential information, which is processed by standalone computers. The embassy s Local Area Network LAN also has no direct internet access and the firewall has been fortified, they said, adding the only hacking victim was the official website, maintained by the information wing. The website allows for online filling of visa and passport applications. The indianembassy.ru website in the public domain was affected to some extent that e-mail IDs of the senior officials were cloned in the or gmail domains to spread the malware, the sources said. For example for the legitimate infowing@ indianembassy.ru , IDs like infowing@indianemba adidas samba og ssy. com and infowing@gmail were used to spread spam with malware, the sources said. In a recent incident, the Daily Media Digest iss air max 1 ued by the Information Wing in the evening was received by its recipients, including Moscow-based Indian journalists, early morning and instead of word document, it had RAR archive arrangement. The prompt warning circulated by the embassy not t stanley cup o open the attachment saved many computers from the fresh lot of malware. The incident assumes significance in the wake of a report about alleged Chinese cyber espionage which has |
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