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EU's Headscarf Ruling
The European Union's highest court has ruled that companies can prohibit employees from wearing visible political, philosophical or religious symbols.
A legal expert explains the ruling by the European Court of Justice that allows companies to ban staff from wearing visible religious symbols such as headscarves.
Also today: Somali pirates are suspected of hijacking an oil tanker; reaction to Scotland's announcement of plans to call a second referendum on independence from the United Kingdom; a British cruise ship that accidentally ran aground in one of Indonesia's most pristine coral reefs, and Scottish golf club Muirfield will allow women to join for the first time.
(Photo: Muslim woman. Credit: Getty Images)
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Tue 14 Mar 201711:06GMT
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