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Turkey reaches out to France to offer political and intelligence support in the wake of the deadly rampage at the Charlie Hebdo offices Turkey has officially proposed cooperation to France in investigating the fatal Charlie Hebdo attack and expressed its readiness to provide any kind of institutional support, the Turkish ambassador to France has said.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group praised the gunmen behind this week's killings at the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper as "heroic jihadists", a monitoring group said on Jan. 9.

More than 2,000 people attended a gathering to express solidarity with the people of France in Athens on Thursday evening, following the deadly attack in Paris on Wednesday against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead and 11 wounded.

?Masked gunmen shouting ?Allahu Akbar!? stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people before escaping.?

French police has launched a large-scale operation north-east of Paris on Thursday to find two fugitive brothers suspected of being the main perpetrators of the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine.

BELGRADE - The citizens of Belgrade lit candles in front of the French Cultural Center on Thursday evening, paying tribute to the victims of the terrorist attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris that claimed the lives of 12 people.

The Bureau of the Black Sea Association of National News Agencies strongly condemns the terrorist attack in Paris against the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo.

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Cartoonists honor murdered colleagues with art

Many artists worldwide have been posting their cartoons online in reaction to the news about Wednesday's massacre in Paris.

A total of 12 people died in an attack on the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, well-known and respected cartoonist Georges Wolinski among them.

The French satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated in an Islamist attack will publish as scheduled next week, one of its surviving staff members told AFP on Jan. 8.

Charlie Hebdo will publish next Wednesday to defiantly show that "stupidity will not win," said columnist Patrick Pelloux, who is also an emergency room doctor.        

Premier Victor Ponta signed on Thursday in the condolence book opened at the Embassy of France in memory of the victims of the murderous attack at the headquarters of the "Charlie Hebdo" satirical magazine.

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