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“The attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices is tragic, but it is also proof of just how powerful cartoons and cartoonists can be. Despite threats and prior attacks, the publishers, editors, and ...

The cartoon prompted widespread outrage. "I respect freedom of satire and irony but I can also say I have the freedom to say that (the Charlie Hebdo quake cartoon) stinks," said Senate Speaker ...

The knife attack came five years after the Al-Qaeda-linked attack on Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices. The Islamist attack was in response to the magazine publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet ...

Foreign ministry warns French counterparts of consequences after magazine publishes caricatures of Iran's supreme leader in a special issue Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves ...