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  London lights up in French tricolour to mark terror deaths

  World | January 12, 2015 10:08 IST

  London: London's famous landmarks were lit up in the colours of the French national flag in tribute to the 17 people killed in the Paris terror attacks on Sunday night.The Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square and

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  5 held over Paris attacks freed from custody

  World | January 11, 2015 14:48 IST

  Paris: Five people detained in connection with the three days of bloodshed in France have been released from custody, the Paris prosecutor's spokeswoman said Sunday.The gunmen who carried out the attacks on the satirical newspaper

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  German daily that printed Charlie Hebdo cartoons attacked

  World | January 11, 2015 20:30 IST

  Berlin: A German newspaper was today targeted in an arson attack for reprinting controversial cartoons from French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and two people were arrested for involvement in the assault.The building housing the office

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  France terror: Israeli PM urges fight against 'Islamist extremism'

  World | January 11, 2015 8:15 IST

  Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday condemned the terror attacks in France earlier this month, which killed 20 people, and called for a fight against Islamist extremism."On behalf of the citizens of Israel,

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  French radio releases audio said to be of kosher supermarket attacker

  World | January 11, 2015 9:18 IST

  French radio RTL released an audio recording on Saturday, which is said to be of the attacker, Amedy Coulibaly, who seized hostages in a kosher supermarket in Paris.In the recording Coulibaly lashes out over Western

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  France to deploy 500 additional military personnel in greater Paris

  World | January 10, 2015 18:42 IST

  Paris: Around 500 extra military personnel will be deployed in the greater Paris region, the French defence ministry said today.“The military personnel will be deployed in two waves in Ile de France,” the defence ministry

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  Paris hostages took refuge in refrigerators and under sinks

  World | January 10, 2015 18:26 IST

  Even as the world feared for the Paris hostages, who had been held captive by gunmen allegedly responsible for Charlie Hebdo shooting, the French authorities have applauded the survivors' quick instincts.According to Paris prosecutor Francois

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  Charlie Hebdo attack: Yemeni Al Qaeda claims responsibility for shooting

  World | January 10, 2015 15:18 IST

  Paris: Al Qaeda's Yemeni arm has claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, saying the shooting was an operation to teach the French the limits of freedom of expression,

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  France fears more attacks, cops say woman suspect at large 'armed, dangerous'

  World | January 10, 2015 9:02 IST

  Paris: What started as a hunt for two terror suspects grew into something worse — fears of a nest of terrorists that could strike again in the heart of Paris. The suspects in three attacks

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  Al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula directed attack against Charlie Hebdo, claims member

  World | January 10, 2015 8:39 IST

  Cairo: Al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris "as revenge for the honour" of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a member of the group said on Friday.At least

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  Seven killed as Paris double hostage crisis ends

  World | January 10, 2015 0:03 IST

  Paris: At least seven people were killed Friday, including three gunmen, after security forces brought to an end two tense hostage dramas in separate locations in the French capital.While Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two

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  Police officials: 4 dead in Paris grocery hostage crisis

  World | January 09, 2015 23:21 IST

  Paris: Two police officials say at least four people, including the attacker, have died at a kosher grocery in Paris where a gunman took several hostages.Security forces stormed the grocery minutes after their counterparts assaulted

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  Police official: Charlie Hebdo suspects dead, hostage freed

  World | January 09, 2015 23:09 IST

  Paris: Terrorists linked to each other seized hostages at two locations around Paris on Friday, facing off against hundreds of French security forces as the city shut down a famed Jewish neighborhood and scrambled to

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  Police: Gunman to kill hostages if police storm brothers

  World | January 09, 2015 21:30 IST

  Paris: A police official says the gunman holding at least five hostages in a kosher market in eastern Paris has threatened to kill them if police launch an assault on the cornered brothers suspected in

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  France faces 2 hostage-taking attacks; 1 on kosher market

  World | January 09, 2015 20:05 IST

  DAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France:  French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the other an

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  Why is Sonia Gandhi œsilent on Aiyar's remarks on Paris terror attack: BJP

  Politics | January 09, 2015 19:40 IST

  New Delhi: BJP today questioned Congress President Sonia Gandhi's “silence” on statements of prominent party leaders “justifying” the Paris terror attack on journalists and demanded a response from her even as it asked the opposition

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  Chilling account: Terrorist in Paris told woman, we don't kill women but you have to convert to Islam

  World | January 09, 2015 19:18 IST

  Paris: Chilling accounts of the carnage that took place at the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo have surfaced. A photograph shows papers spread on the floor with blood stains spread all around.Female reporter

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  Modi calls up Hollande, condemns Charlie Hebdo terror attack

  India | January 09, 2015 18:54 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday spoke to French President Francois Hollande and condemned "in the strongest terms" the terror attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in which 12 people, including four senior

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  Paris: We are prepared to die as martyrs, Charlie Hebdo attackers tell French Police

  World | January 09, 2015 18:14 IST

  Dammartin-En-Goele (France):  Two brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered inside a printing house northeast of Paris on Friday, taking a hostage and telling police they “want to die as martyrs,” a lawmaker

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  Mani Shankar Aiyar's logic behind terror attacks leaves Twitter in shock!

  Mouthful | January 09, 2015 16:40 IST

  Guess, foot-in-mouth moments and Mani Shankar Aiyar go hand-in-hand.... The man who is not new to the world of controversies, yet again brewed himself into the centre of another debate. Mr. Aiyar and his eminent ability of