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France defends law combatting 'pernicious' Islamist radicalism
President Emmanuel Macron has pushed the legislation - which would tighten rules on issues ranging from religious-based education to polygamy - after a spate of...
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Four more students charged in France over teacher's beheading
Three other pupils were charged with complicity earlier this month over the beheading last month of Paty, who had shown his students cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as part of a lesson on free speech.
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'Charlie Hebdo' trial adjourned again as main accused unwell
The new delay further sets back the timetable for the trial and it is unclear when the verdict - which was supposed to have been handed down last week - will be announced.
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Shocked France bolsters security after church killings
The bloodshed inside Nice's Notre-Dame basilica early Thursday morning added new tension in a country already on the highest alert after a string of attacks blamed on suspected Islamists in recent weeks.
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Anti-France protests draw thousands in Asia, Middle East
Smaller anti-France protests also took place in the Middle East after Macron's defence of the right to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad - a position that has sparked anger across the Muslim world.
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Erdogan blasts 'disgusting' 'Charlie Hebdo' cartoon
His office also vowed to take 'legal and diplomatic actions' over the depiction of the 66-year-old leader drinking a can of beer in his underpants and looking up a woman's skirt.
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France closes Paris mosque in clampdown over teacher's beheading
The interior ministry said the mosque in Pantin, which has some 1,500 worshippers, would be shut on Wednesday night for six months.
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French police raid Islamist groups after teacher's beheading
The raids came a day after tens of thousands of people took part in rallies countrywide to honour teacher Samuel Paty and defend freedom of expression, including the right to show cartoons regarded by many Muslims as insulting.
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France to rally in solidarity, defiance after beheading of teacher
The killing of history teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb Friday has sparked outrage in France and memories of a wave of Islamist violence in 2015 sparked by caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed published by the satirical magazine 'Charlie Hebdo'.
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Teacher decapitated in France after showing Muhammad caricatures
According to a police source, the victim was a history teacher who recently discussed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in class.
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Man held on terror charges after two wounded in Paris cleaver attack
A large meat cleaver found near the scene is believed to have been used by the attacker.
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UPDATE: 2 suspects arrested in knife attack outside 'Charlie Hebdo' ex-offices
Paris police said two people were 'critically wounded' in Friday's attack, which is being investigated by specialist anti-terror prosecutors. An earlier toll had said four were wounded, two seriously.
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French media back 'Charlie Hebdo' after new threats
The magazine republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad earlier this month at the start of a trial of suspects in the 2015 attack on their Paris office.
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France's Charlie Hebdo sells out with Mohammed cartoons reprint
The issue featured a dozen cartoons mocking the prophet of Islam, including images that sparked huge protests when first published, to mark the start of the trial this week of alleged accomplices to the 2015 massacre.
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Suspected accomplices in 'Charlie Hebdo' jihadist killings face trial
Twelve people, including some of France's most celebrated cartoonists, were gunned down on 7 January 2015, when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed the paper's offices in eastern Paris.
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'Charlie Hebdo' to republish Muhammad cartoons for terror trial start
Twelve people, including some of France's most celebrated cartoonists, were killed on 7 January 2015, when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi went on a gun rampage at the paper's offices.
