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France will deploy nearly 5,000 security forces and police to protect the 700 Jewish schools in the country, as Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Jan. 12 that the gunman who attacked a kosher supermarket probably had an accomplice.
      

Europe may have to tighten its border controls in order to deter Islamic fighters returning to Europe from the Middle East, Spain's Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz has said.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is expected to attend a French national unity rally in Paris on Sunday following an invitation from the country?s President Francois Hollande.

The peaceful march was organized in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris last Wednesday in which 12 people were shot dead by French-Algerian brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi.

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 profiles of the perpetrators of this week's attacks in Paris and Istanbul attack are completely different. The former suggests two French brothers of Algerian origin, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, whose links with extremist jihadist terror organizations were disclosed by intelligence organizations in Western countries.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.