France will close its embassies and schools in 20 countries on Friday in fear of a hostile reaction to a magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced earlier that he had ordered special security measures in all the countries where this could pose a problem, according to AFP.
Fabius admitted he was concerned by the potential for backlash to Charlie Hebdo's weekly printing of a satirical series of cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), and against a background of violent protests in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film. -0-
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A court in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan has sentenced blogger Azamat Sarsenov to a 10-day detention for filming the crash site of an Embraer 190 passenger plane in Aktau. The ruling was confirmed by the court's press service, according to reports from RBC.
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The families of those killed in the crash of the AZAL passenger plane “Embrayer-190” will be paid compensation in the amount of 40 thousand manats (about 24 thousand dollars).
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On 26 December, Ramzan Kadyrov awarded his nephew Khamzat Kadurov, who holds the post of secretary of the Chechen Security Council, with the medal "For Services to the Chechen Republic".
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The Russian side must apologize for the air defense attack on the Azerbaijani civilian aircraft, said Azerbaijani MP Rasim Musabeyov.
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