Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov assured UNESCO's Director-General Irina Bokova that she can rely on the government's support for her nomination as UN Secretary-General on Friday.

Bokova was nominated by the government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski in June 2014, electronic daily Dnevnik reminds.

The French security forces stormed almost simultaneously both hostage sites - the kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes district in Paris and the printing shop in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele.

The suspected Charlie Hebdo gunmen, who had taken a hostage at a printing shop in Dammartin on Friday, were killed in the assault, the BBC reports.

Officials sign book of condolences at French embassy

BELGRADE -- Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic signed a book of condolences at the French embassy on Friday and paid homage to the victims of a terrorist attack in Paris.

12 people died during the January 7 attack at the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

At least two people have been shot dead in a kosher supermarket in the south-east of Paris, AFP sources say.

Earlier, it was reported that a gunman was holding up to five hostages in the shop, demanding that the Charlie Hebdo attackers be released.

More to follow.

Europe is now at a critical moment and this is the first time when its citizens find that the integration process requires sacrifices as well, presidential advisor Mihai Razvan Ungureanu considers.

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Turkey's former President Abdullah Gül has joined the condemnations of the shooting in Paris that killed 12 people at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, calling on the Islamic world to denounce the incident.

Several hostages were freed after French commandos stormed a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris where an assailant was holed up on Friday.
      
After several explosions, police stormed the shop in Portes de Vincennes and several hostages exited the store shortly afterwards and were taken to safety.

Five people were killed, including the gunman, sources said.

Surviving employees of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical newspaper that lost its top staff to gunmen in a Paris attack this week, started work on a new issue Jan. 9 in premises loaned by the newspaper Liberation.

Several people associated with the publication were seen going into Liberation's offices in central eastern Paris.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic signed the book of condolences in the French Embassy on Friday and paid homage to the victims of the terrorist attack in Charlie Hebdo paper, saying that Serbia and France will fight against the evils of terrorism together, just as they have done on a number of occasions in the past.

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.