French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France’s strict secular laws in education.

France’s powerful Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Sunday issued a stark warning over the danger of far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen winning the presidency in the next election, while burnishing his own ambition to succeed Emmanuel Macron in 2027.

After 9 days of intense competition with 49 different events, the World Athletics championship comes to an end in Budapest, with Uganda’s Victor Kiplangat crowned men’s world marathon champion.

Senior staff side they ‘will not tolerate’ the ‘life-threatening’ behaviour.

Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week.

The best pictures from across Europe this week.