Full Coverage: January 2015: Terror at Charlie Hebdo and across greater Paris
Three days of terror that left at least 20 people dead across greater Paris ended violently Jan. 9 when police stormed a suburban printing plant and killed two brothers with Al Qaeda connections as a nearly simultaneous raid in the capital took out an accomplice holding hostages at a kosher market.
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Word that one of its native sons blasted his way into terrorist infamy has brought unwelcome scrutiny to La Grande Borne, a crime-ridden housing project in the gritty southern Paris suburb of Grigny.
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The gunmen behind France’s worst terrorist attack in decades appear to have been easy prey for recruiters to violent jihad.
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German authorities canceled right-wing protests Sunday, citing threats, and Belgian officials said they were still searching for the ringleader of a terrorist cell as Europe continued to grapple with the aftermath of extremist attacks in Paris.
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On the streets of Gennevilliers, a working-class suburb north of Paris, residents said there was little indication that a militant bent on warfare on French soil was living in their midst.
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A week after the worst terrorist attacks in France in decades, European counter-terrorism officials conducted sweeping raids that netted at least 29 people, searching numerous sites starting late Thursday in Belgium and continuing Friday in France and Germany.
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President Obama warned Europeans “not to simply respond with a hammer” in working against radicalization among its Muslim populations, and argued that the United States had an advantage on this front because American Muslims are better integrated into society.
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Pope Francis on Thursday stirred fresh controversy in the debate over freedom of speech and individual responsibility with a remark that suggested that a violent reaction to insults should be expected.
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At least two people were killed Thursday in an anti-terrorism operation near a train station in the eastern Belgian city of Verviers as authorities widened their investigation into last week’s terrorist attacks in France to include potential accomplices in Belgium and Spain.
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People made reservations days in advance and lined up before dawn, and still scores were turned away as they attempted to buy the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, a week after Islamist extremists launched a deadly assault on the satirical magazine’s offices and began the worst terrorist attacks in Paris in decades.
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Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen on Wednesday claimed responsibility for planning and financing last week’s massacre at a satirical magazine in Paris.
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A pair of soldiers toting submachine guns patrolled Tuesday outside a Jewish school on Rue Pavee in Paris’ Marais district, where shoppers and tourists mingled with black-clad, ultra-Orthodox men.
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On the streets of Paris and at the red carpet at the Golden Globes, and across the electronic boulevards of social media that crisscross the world, the words “Je suis Charlie” are everywhere.
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French leaders launched a multi-pronged anti-terrorism campaign Tuesday, with the prime minister making an impassioned plea for a crackdown on Muslim extremists and lawmakers voting to renew participation in U.S.
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At an emotional briefing Tuesday, staff members from French publication Charlie Hebdo described the motivation behind their latest issue due out Wednesday, the first since the deadly attacks last week on the satirical magazine.
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With tears, prayers and eulogies, Israeli and French officials and mourners paid tribute here Tuesday at funerals for the four victims of Friday’s attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris.
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Bulgarian authorities said Tuesday they have arrested a French citizen believed to have links to one of the Kouachi brothers, while in Paris, President Francois Hollande led an homage to three slain police officers.
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The cover of Charlie Hebdo’s next issue, due out Wednesday, will have a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad crying and holding an “I am Charlie” sign under the headline “All is forgiven.”
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Republicans never miss a beat finding some new pretext for slamming President Obama.
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More than 1 million people filled the boulevards and avenues of central Paris on Sunday, marching arm in arm in a display of national unity after a string of attacks that killed 17 people and dramatized France’s vulnerability to terrorism.
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Hundreds gathered Sunday outside Los Angeles City Hall to show solidarity against last week’s terrorist attacks in France and to pay tribute to the 17 people killed.
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A diverse crowd of more than 150 people gathered on Sunday in Beirut’s downtown Samir Kassir Square in solidarity with the massive march in Paris after last week’s terror attacks, with the Lebanese raising pens and toting “Je suis Charlie” signs.
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They were a career criminal and his girlfriend, a failed rapper and his older brother.
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Days after the massacre that shocked this nation, the surviving staffers of French humor magazine Charlie Hebdo are gathered in another newsroom planning their next edition.
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A video surfaced Sunday that appears to show Paris attacker Amedy Coulibaly explaining his motives, claiming he and the shooters who attacked the magazine Charlie Hebdo coordinated their actions to avenge Islamic State.
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He was a Paris cop executed while trying to foil the escape of the perpetrators of last week’s massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical Paris magazine.
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French authorities raced Saturday to find the girlfriend of one of three dead Islamist suspects, who authorities declared was “armed and dangerous” and heavily involved in the terrorist attacks that rocked France for three days.
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The remote Persian Gulf nation of Yemen has been frequently mentioned this week after the attack on a magazine office in Paris, especially after a spokesman for Al Qaeda’s affiliate there appeared Friday to claim responsibility for the attack as “revenge for the honor” of Islam’s prophet Muhammad.
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Marie Elong embraced her daughter in relief as the 11-year-old raced through the doors of her school in the city’s Porte de Vincennes district.
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Three days of terror that left at least 20 people dead across greater Paris ended violently Friday when police stormed a suburban printing plant and killed two brothers with Al Qaeda connections as a nearly simultaneous raid in the capital took out an accomplice holding hostages.
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Although the attack in Paris on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been widely condemned online, some people have praised the violence.
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Gun and grenade attacks outside at least two French mosques heightened fear Thursday of an anti-Muslim backlash after a military-style assault on a newspaper that satirizes Islam.
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Just after 2 a.m., the man with the cold smile strode into the gallows, manacled at the wrists.
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Michel Houellebecq has called off his book tour and has left Paris for “an unspecified rural retreat,” the Guardian reports.
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They are accustomed to poison-pen letters, furious emails, and insults.
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The prophet is locked in an embrace, his arm encircling a French cartoonist, their lips locked.
