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The head of Montenegro's Islamic community, Rifat Fejzic, on Thursday condemned the Islamist terror attack in Paris, which claimed the lives of 12 people.

At the same time, he criticized the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that were the alleged reason for the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.

The brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who are suspected of having killed 12 people in the attack on Charlie Hebdo weekly, have told police they want to "die in martyrdom", a French official says.

This comes as authorities have started talks with the two men, nearly 48 hours after the events at Charlie Hebdo's office.

Bulgaria's top Islamic institution has condemned the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo and the murder of twelve people by gunmen.

In a statement to the media, the Chief Mufti's Office has described the incident as "a blow to all Muslims" and has voiced its concerns that such actions will "marginalize" Islam.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has called on Muslim Turks to remain resolute against Islamophobia that is "spread using terrorist acts as an excuse" in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, accusing certain groups of plotting to breed bad blood between cultures in Europe.

Minister of Education and Scientific Research Sorin Cimpeanu signed, on Thursday, the condolence book open at the French Embassy in Bucharest, as a sign of compassion for the victims of the attack in Paris.

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Shots have been heard 45 km north-east of Paris as police are driving after a car presumably used by the gunmen who committed the attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

For nearly two days thousands of police officers have been taking part in the manhunt following the twelve murders at Charlie Hebdo's office in Paris.

Elite French police stormed a printworks and a Jewish supermarket Jan. 9, killing two brothers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo attack and a gunman linked to them in a dramatic end to twin sieges that rocked France.

Elite French police stormed a printworks and a Jewish supermarket Friday, killing two brothers wanted for the Charlie Hebdo attack and an apparent accomplice who had taken hostages in two separate sieges that traumatised France.
     

Two brothers suspected of slaughtering 12 people in an Islamist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo seized a hostage Friday as police cornered the gunmen northeast of the capital in a dramatic climax to the manhunt.

Shots were fired during a car chase and at least one hostage was taken to the north-east of Paris Jan. 9, in the same area police were hunting for two brothers accused of slaughtering 12 people in an Islamist assault.