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UAE Advises Citizens to Avoid Traditional Dress During Travel

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The United Arab Emirates is advising its citizens to avoid wearing traditional clothing when traveling abroad. The warning comes after the local media widely carried reports of an Emirati businessman, wearing traditional white robes, who was mistaken for a member of Islamic State while visiting the central U.S. state of Ohio. He was handcuffed and detained by police and later had to be hospitalized. The government also "urged women to abide by bans on face veils in parts of...

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