A FRENCH parliamentary panel will stop short of recommending a ban on face-covering veils in the street and, instead, will ask for the garb to be banned in public facilities such as hospitals, the panel’s president says.

France is unlikely to impose a total ban on Muslim veils but may bar them from public buildings, it emerged today.

British actor Corin Redgrave called on the US to follow its release of five Britons detained in Guantanamo Bay with the return of all the estimated 660 people held at the US Navy base in Cuba.