Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran yesterday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one.

Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated by Islamic extremist gunmen and then beset by internal tensions over an unexpected influx of donations and readers, said yesterday it will turn over all the money to victims of the three days of attacks in January.

Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper which was targeted by Islamic extremist gunmen in January, is giving nearly €4m to victims of the attacks.

Israeli police briefly clashed with Palestinian protesters at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site early yesterday, raising tensions in the holy city ahead of the Jewish new year.

A suicide bomber purportedly from an IS affiliate unleashed the first terrorist attack in Kuwait in more than two decades, killing at least 25 people and wounding scores more in a bombing that targeted Shi’ite worshippers after midday prayers.

Islamic State militants have destroyed two historic mausoleums in Palmyra, Syria’s top antiquities official has said.

Two gunmen were killed after opening fire on a security officer outside a contest for cartoon depictions of Prophet Muhammad and a bomb squad was called in to search their vehicle as a precaution, authorities said.

A "suspicious" letter has been found outside a café in Copenhagen, the scene of an attack during a free speech event on Saturday.

French police have released three of the 12 suspects arrested in an anti-terror sweep following the attacks in Paris by Islamic extremists that killed 17 people and put Europe on high alert.

FRENCH media estimate up to 3m took part in the Paris rally for unity against terrorism — more than the numbers who took to the capital’s streets when the Allies liberated the city from the Nazis in the Second World War.

Key members of the French government will meet today to decide on new measures aimed at thwarting a repeat of the attacks in Paris that saw a massacre of 12 people at a satirical newspaper, and a supermarket bloodbath that left four hostages dead.

“I hope at the moment that the whole country is united and I hope it will not create a divided country, the consequences of that would be terrible.”

It is sad to think that Dr. Ali Selim’s attempt to stifle free speech - through threat of legal action against any Irish publication that reprints Charlie Hebdo’s front page depiction of the Prophet Muhammad – can currently be supported by our nation’s laws. 

One suspect sought in the deadly shooting at a French satirical paper has turned himself in, as police hunt for two heavily armed men with possible links to al-Qaida.

France’s president has urged the nation to stay united as it hunts gunmen who killed 12 people at the office of a satirical newspaper.

President Barack Obama is offering help to French officials to pursue terrorists responsible for what he is calling a “horrific shooting” at a satirical weekly newspaper.

A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives killed at least 15 people near a police academy in the heart of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.

A bomb which exploded near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint has killed at least 45 people near the country’s eastern border with India, in an attack suspected to be the work of a suicide bomber.

As the world’s estimated 1.6 billion Muslims marked the beginning of Ramadan this weekend, the holy season is marred by unprecedented turmoil, violence and sectarian hatreds that threaten to rip apart the Middle East.

A Swedish inventor’s experiments with a new power source for electric cars caused a bomb scare that paralysed parts of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, for three hours.

A Cairo court today ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.

A Cairo court has ordered that the website YouTube be banned in Egypt for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world.

At least five people have been killed and 90 others wounded after a bombing at a Shiite religious procession in north-western Pakistan on Sunday which the Taliban has claimed responsibility for.

A suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded with explosives into a Catholic church holding Mass on Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 100 others in an attack that sparked reprisal killings in the city, authorities and witnesses said.

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A religious foundation in Iran has increased a reward for killing British author Salman Rushdie to $3.3m from $2.8m in response to alleged insults to the Prophet Muhammad, according to newspaper reports.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

A disabled Christian girl has been arrested accused of breaking Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws.

A minibus carrying Shiite Muslims hit an anti-tank landmine in north-western Pakistan today, killing 14 of them in what police described as the country's latest sectarian attack.

At least 25 people have been killed after two car bombings hit a religious procession in the Iraqi capital.

Four men who planned a shooting spree at the office of a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the prophet Muhammed were found guilty of terrorism and sentenced to 12 years in prison today.

Four men have been found guilty by a Danish court of planning a terrorist attack on a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005.

Pakistan’s government has blocked the social networking website Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam, according to officials.

Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a shoe store in south-west Pakistan today, killing four Shiite Muslims, police said.

The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly football riot rose to 11 today, security officials said, as demonstrations continued in Cairo.

The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly football riot rose to eight today, security officials said, as demonstrations continued in Cairo.

Two men were found guilty yesterday of involvement in an al-Qaida plot to attack a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, the first convictions under Norway’s anti-terror laws.

Around 200 Coptic Christians and Muslims clashed in a southern Egyptian province after a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad was posted on a local Christian student’s Facebook page.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai cut short a European trip and returned to Kabul today to visit the scores of wounded and the bereaved families of those killed in an unprecedented sectarian assault on a Shiite shrine in the capital.

Twenty-one people were killed and nearly 100 others injured today when five bombs struck Shiite pilgrims during an important religious ritual for the Muslim sect.

Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran today, tearing down the Union flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The accused ringleader of a terror plot in Norway has rejected charges that he conspired with al-Qaida to attack a Danish newspaper, saying he was planning a solo raid against the Chinese Embassy in Oslo.

Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims travelling through south-western Pakistan today, killing 13 people and injuring seven others in the latest apparent sectarian attack to hit the country, police said.