Charlie Hebdo

A group of pro-Syrian regime hackers briefly took over the Twitter account of France's Le Monde newspaper early Jan. 21, tweeting several messages including one reading "Je ne suis pas Charlie".
      

Washington stands side-by-side with victims of terror around the world, President Barack Obama vowed Jan. 20, asking lawmakers to give him updated war powers to defeat Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria.
      

Deadly shootings by homegrown Islamists have cast a light on France's "geographical, social and ethnic apartheid", Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Jan. 20 in one of the starkest indictments of French society by a government figure.
   

Four men will appear before a judge in France on Jan. 20 to face possible charges of providing support to one of the Paris Islamist attackers, the prosecutors' office said.
      

A group of Islamists at Ankara University have clashed with another group of students who were commemorating both the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack and the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was killed eight years ago.

Balkan media unites in condemning Paris attacks

Regional media unites, calling the recent terrorism in Paris an attack on freedom of expression.

Journalists in the region united to condemn the recent terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. [AFP]

The main opposition party has strongly reacted to the prime minister, who argued that the social democrat party was defending a Turkish daily?s decision to reprint cartoons featuring Prophet Muhammad, and accused him of exploiting religion for politics.

Police in Niger fired tear gas Jan. 18 to break up a banned opposition demonstration in the capital Niamey, a day after deadly riots over the publication by France's Charlie Hebdo magazine of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
      
Around 300 demonstrators had gathered at a central square for a long-planned march on parliament.
      

Fritz-Joly Joachin, a French citizen who was detained in Bulgaria this week while trying to make it into Turkey, said the terror act at Charlie Hebdo weekly's offices last week had caught him by surprise.

Almost half of French oppose publication of cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Mohammed, according to a poll Jan. 18, as global debate deepened on the limits of free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings.