(AP) A decade after Islamic extremist gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a deadly assault that shook France to its core and ignited a global outcry in defense of freedom of speech, the nation paused on Tuesday […]
(Radio France) A decade after jihadists stormed its Paris newsroom killing eight staff members, satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo is charting an ambitious course for its next 10 years. Chief editor [Gérard] Biard tells RFI the paper remains resolute in its mission to […]
(BBC) Exactly 10 years after the jihadist gun attack that killed most of its editorial staff, France’s Charlie Hebdo has put out a special issue to show its cause is still kicking. Things changed for France on 7 January 2015, marking in […]
(AFP) French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is set to publish a special God-mocking edition next week to mark 10 years since an attack on its offices by jihadist gunmen that left eight staff members dead. The anniversary of the shocking attack on […]
(AFP) French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo doubled down on its ridicule of Iran’s religious rulers on Tuesday, with fresh cartoons of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei despite protests from Iran and its allies. “The mullahs aren’t happy. The caricatures of their supreme […]
(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is making headlines again by stirring outrage in Iran, demonstrating that it has lost none of its appetite for provocation or its ability to stir up diplomatic problems abroad. The irreverent and militantly atheist publication operates […]
(AFP) Iran warned France on Wednesday of consequences after satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published cartoons depicting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Tehran deemed to be insulting. The weekly had published dozens of cartoons ridiculing the highest religious and political figure in […]
(AFP) The appeal trial opened in Paris on Monday for two men suspected of helping the gunmen who stormed the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, the first of a wave of Islamist terror attacks that have […]
(AFP) French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, targeted in a devastating 2015 attack over cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed considered blasphemous by many Muslims, has denounced the stabbing of Salman Rushdie. “Nothing justifies a fatwa, a death sentence,” wrote the magazine’s managing editor […]
(AP) It’s been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won’t stop poking fun at Islamic extremism. The newspaper’s many critics worldwide say its editorial […]
(Reuters) The stabbing of two people in Paris’s Rue Nicolas-Appert on Friday brought violence back to the street where, five years ago, Islamist militants killed 12 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Two journalists were wounded in Friday’s attack […]
(AFP) More than 100 French news outlets on Wednesday called on people to support satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which was attacked by gunmen in 2015, after its staff received death threats. The magazine republished cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed earlier this month […]
(AFP) Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff, after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday. Al-Qaeda in its publication One Ummah had warned […]
(AFP) The current director of France’s Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in January 2015, on Wednesday said the magazine had “nothing to regret” for publishing cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that angered Muslims around the […]
(AFP) The French cartoonist forced by the attackers of the Charlie Hebdo weekly to let them into its offices said Tuesday that she had been traumatised by feelings of guilt, as she recalled the horror of the January 2015 massacre. Corinne Rey, […]
(AFP) French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a jihadist attack in 2015, said Friday that its latest edition reprinting controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed had sold out in just one day. Wednesday’s issue featured a dozen cartoons mocking the […]
(Reuters) The Islamist gunmen who attacked the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago, killing 12 people, sought to avenge the Prophet Mohammad, a French court heard on Wednesday on the first day of the trial of more than a dozen alleged […]
(AFP) French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, the target of a massacre by Islamist gunmen in 2015, said Tuesday it was republishing hugely controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to mark this week’s start of the trial of alleged accomplices to the attack. […]
(Reuters) Staff at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Tuesday stood in silence outside their former offices where, five years ago, Islamist gunmen began a three-day rampage in which they killed 17 people. The magazine, which had angered Muslims by publishing cartoons […]
(Breitbart) The head of Charlie Hebdo has blasted leftists and others in a new book about the 2015 radical Islamic terror attack on the satirical French magazine’s office. Laurent Sourisseau, more commonly known in France as Riss, tells the story of the terror […]
(Radio France) This is the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attack against the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Twelve people died at the hands of two radical Islamic attackers, who also killed Ahmed Merabet, a police officer who was on […]
(Radio France) A police officer charged with protecting the editor of France’s controversial Charlie Hebdo paper has been suspended because of suspicions he might have been attracted to radical Islamism, according to press reports. The officer, who has not been named in […]
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