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BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic will take part in the solidarity march in Paris on Sunday which was organised as response to the terrorist attack on the editorial of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.

The participation in the Solidarity March to be held on Sunday in Paris is 'a strong signal of Romania's desire for involvement in the fight against terrorism and extremism of any kind,' on Saturday said president Klaus Iohannis, in a release to AGERPRES.

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NOVI SAD - Citizens of Novi Sad honoured the victims of the terrorist attack on the editorial of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo by lighting candles at the Freedom Square on Friday night.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu will join other European leaders in an extraordinary show of support for France at a mass rally in Paris scheduled for Jan. 11.

There were calls for Davuto?lu to join the demonstration as a wave of global support continued following the bloody end to the Charlie Hebdo attacks? sieges. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an called his French counterpart François Hollande late Jan. 9 to express Turkey's solidarity with France.

The Turkish president also offered his condolences to the victims' families. Both presidents agreed to collaborate on anti-terrorism efforts.

An Al-Qaida member in Yemen has said the group directed the Charlie Hebdo attack, while French PM acknowledged "failings" in intelligence that led to a three-day spree of horror and at least 20 people dead.

The moment when I heard about the attack on Charlie Hebdo, I was depressed. I knew there would be people all around the world who would focus on the ?religious identities? of those who fired the bullets, as well as their political identities.

There is no doubt that the attack on Charlie Hebdo is a cruel crime that all people of all faiths should condemn. I, for my part, denounce the cold-blooded murderers who apparently acted in the name of my faith, Islam, but violated one of its core principles: The sanctity of human life.

The two hostage incidents that unfolded in France on Friday resulted in the death of three suspects and four hostages.

The suspected perpetrators of the January 7 Charlie Hebdo shooting brothers Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi took a hostage in a printing plant northeast of Paris in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele on Friday.

Two people were taken hostage in a jewellery shop in the city centre of Montpellier on Friday.

The incident took place shortly after the French security forces stormed simultaneously the two hostage sites in Paris and Dammartin-en-Goele, killing the suspected perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.