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Two masked gunmen stormed the office of French satire newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris and slaughtered 12 people on January 7, 2015, in apparent revenge against the weekly's publication of cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Mohammed. Eight more people died, including three attackers, in the subsequent hunt for the gunmen near Paris. The violence led to a world-wide campaign of condemnation against terror and solidarity with the slain journalists. A record-breaking 3.7 million people marched across France on January 11 in tribute to the victims. 

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Security measures for Hong Kong screenings of a French documentary about the terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo office in January have been stepped up following the recent attacks in Paris and worldwide terror alerts.

A father-and-son team of filmmakers want to rescue the Charlie Hebdo debate from the trivia they think has made us lose sight of the importance of what happened

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A student allegedly planning a church attack in France has been arrested, the country's interior minister said yesterday, just over three months after Paris was hit by a jihadist killing spree.

After Fox News declared parts of the French capital 'no-go zones' for non-Muslims, Rowena Carr-Allinson ventures into the biggest one and finds hipsters, trendy restaurants, vibrant markets and creeping gentrification.

French police sealed off a housing estate in Marseille on Monday after hooded gunmen opened fire on a police car with Kalashnikov rifles, in an incident possibly related to drug crime.

France's most-wanted woman once loved the warm waves of the Dominican Republic, posing in a black bikini with her future husband, a petty thief.

French police on Tuesday arrested eight people suspected of involvement in a network that allegedly sent people to Syria to wage jihad, the interior minister said.

One of the world's leading comics festivals opened in France under tight security as the event was dedicated to the murdered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.

Dozens of US lawmakers paid tribute to the victims of the Islamist attacks in Paris by holding up pencils during US President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech.

France unveiled a raft of measures on Wednesday to curb radicalisation and better monitor jihadists two weeks after an Islamist killing spree in Paris that sent shockwaves across Europe.

Five Russians from Chechnya have been detained in southern France on suspicion of preparing an attack, local prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Publishers are rushing to reprint Voltaire's 1763 Treatise on Tolerance following a run on copies after the deaths of 12 people in the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, according to French publisher Gallimard.

At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in the West African nation of Niger as protests over the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the Prophet Mohammed continue to roil the Muslim world.

Police today fired tear gas at a fresh demonstration in Niger against French weekly Charlie Hebdo’s publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, as thousands of Muslims demonstrated in cities across the world.

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Belgian police arrested 13 people during a dozen raids overnight, smashing a plot to kill police officers “in public roads and in police stations”, prosecutors said on Friday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry clasped French President Francois Hollande in a warm embrace on Friday and said the US shared France’s pain after its deadliest attack in half a century.

Yemen's al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, with a top commander saying it was revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

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France and Israel paid tribute on Tuesday to those killed in the Paris terrorist attacks as authorities in Bulgaria said a Frenchman already under arrest had ties to the Paris gunmen who left 17 victims in their wake.

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