https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A relative of one of the extremist killers of journalists at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been arrested in Turkey on his way to Syria, a judicial source said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160807/syria-bound-relative-of-charlie-hebdo-killer-arrested Sun, 07 Aug 2016 17:25:11 +0200 syria-bound-relative-of-charlie-hebdo-killer-arrested Jordan's Queen Rania has hit back at a cartoon in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo depicting drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi as a grown-up committing sexual harassment in Germany. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160116/jordan-queen-hits-back-at-hebdo-cartoon-of-drowned-boy Sat, 16 Jan 2016 18:11:12 +0100 jordan-queen-hits-back-at-hebdo-cartoon-of-drowned-boy France on Saturday paid homage to four Jewish hostages killed at a kosher supermarket in Paris a year after a spate of jihadist attacks that began with a deadly assault on the Charlie Hebdo weekly. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160109/france-remembers-victims-killed-at-kosher-supermarket Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:54:25 +0100 france-remembers-victims-killed-at-kosher-supermarket This week will see France once again paying tribute to the victims of terrorism as the country marks one year since Charlie Hebdo staff, a maintenance worker, three police officers and four members of the Jewish community were gunned down. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160104/how-france-will-honour-victims-of-january-attacks Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:07:18 +0100 how-france-will-honour-victims-of-january-attacks The Kremlin on Friday angrily condemned France's Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine for publishing political cartoons on the subject of the Egypt plane crash in which 224 people died, most of them Russian tourists. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151106/kremlin-slams-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-on-egypt-crash-as-sacrilege Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:21:22 +0100 kremlin-slams-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-on-egypt-crash-as-sacrilege Two men, one with links to Islamic extremism, have been questioned by police after they were reported to have been watching the home of one of the surviving members of Charlie Hebdo staff. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150520/men-probed-after-stalking-charlie-hebdo-head Wed, 20 May 2015 12:10:49 +0200 men-probed-after-stalking-charlie-hebdo-head Charlie Hebdo said Monday €4.3 million in donations will go to the victims of a jihadist attack against the French satirical magazine, which has faced internal tensions over the use of the money. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150518/charlie-hebdo-to-give-43m-to-attack-victims Mon, 18 May 2015 19:07:05 +0200 charlie-hebdo-to-give-43m-to-attack-victims The aftermath of the Paris terror attacks has taken its toll on France's riot police who are apparently fed up of standing guard all day outside the country's "sensitive sites" - and have started calling in sick in protest. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150408/french-riot-police-sick-anti-terror Wed, 08 Apr 2015 13:27:39 +0200 french-riot-police-sick-anti-terror The mayor of Paris arrived in Copenhagen on Monday to show support after two people were killed in apparent terror attacks, just one month after a terror attack in the French capital left 17 dead. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150215/french-pm-expresses-solidarity-after-denmark-shootings Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:04:00 +0100 french-pm-expresses-solidarity-after-denmark-shootings Circulation of the "survivors" issue of Charlie Hebdo, published after a deadly attack on the French satirical weekly's Paris office, is set to top seven million, more than a hundred times its normal circulation, the distributor said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150124/charlie-survivors-issue-tops-7m Sat, 24 Jan 2015 10:12:00 +0100 charlie-survivors-issue-tops-7m Two of the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack were given secretive burials over the weekend in unmarked graves near Paris and Reims, authorities said Sunday, as police across Europe probed jihadist threats. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150118/hebdo-gunmen-buried-in-secret-graves Sun, 18 Jan 2015 15:11:00 +0100 hebdo-gunmen-buried-in-secret-graves Almost half of French oppose publication of cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Muhammad, according to a poll Sunday, as global debate deepened on the limits of free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150118/french-oppose-publishing-muhammad-cartoons-poll Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:37:00 +0100 french-oppose-publishing-muhammad-cartoons-poll France's embassy in Niger warned French citizens to stay indoors Saturday as violent protests against publication of a Prophet Muhammad cartoon by the French weekly Charlie Hebdo spread in the capital Niamey. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150117/france-warns-citizens-in-riot-hit-niger-to-stay-indoors Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:55:00 +0100 france-warns-citizens-in-riot-hit-niger-to-stay-indoors