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A portrait of Ahmed Merabet, the French policeman killed at point-blank range during the attack on Charlie Hebdo Magazine, is displayed with flowers and other tributes on January 11, 2014 in Paris at the place where he was assassinated on Boulevard Richard Lenoir. Merabet was killed as Cherif and Said Kouachi ran from the Paris […]


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Smoke billows in a street as people demonstrate against French weekly Charlie Hebdo’s publication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed near the grand mosque in Niamey, on January 17, 2015. (AFP/Boureima Hama)


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Police officers from the special RAID (Recherche, assistance, intervention, dissuasion) and BRI (Brigades de recherche et dintervention) units get ready as a hostage situation occurs in a post office in Colombes, in the North West of Paris, France, 16 January 2015. (EPA/Ian Langsdon)


Paris police arrest 12 linked to shootings

Paris police arrest 12 linked to shootings

Paris, Reuters—French police arrested 12 people on Friday suspected of helping militant Islamist gunmen in last week’s killings in Paris, where visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry laid wreaths at two main attack sites. The arrests came after Belgian police...
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Forensic police work at the site of the deadly raid in Verviers, Belgium, on January 15, 2015. (AFP Photo/John Thys)


Belgium on high alert after bloody police raid

Belgium on high alert after bloody police raid

Brussels and Verviers, Reuters—Belgian security forces were on high alert on Friday after police killed two gunmen recently returned from Syria during one of several raids across the country against an Islamist network suspected of planning imminent attacks. Daily...
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People holding signs reading “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) and “I am against fascism” march in Toulouse on January 10, 2015 after a three-day killing spree in Paris. Hundreds of thousands of people took to streets in France to demonstrate against terrorism and in tribute to 17 victims after three days of Islamist attacks. […]


Opinion: Democracy is the answer to terrorism

Opinion: Democracy is the answer to terrorism

By now you might feel that you have read all you need to about the events in Paris last week that triggered worldwide sympathy for a France absorbing the shock of terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, to discuss ways of fighting back against this latest form of terrorism...