Police guard Paris roads after unconfirmed sightings of suspectsPolicewoman killed in apparently unconnected incidentPresident Hollande leads minute’s silence in ParisSeven arrests made overnight in relation to manhuntLatest news story: several arrested but hunt for suspects continuesShare your tributes via GuardianWitnessWhat do we know so far? 2.31pm GMT Satire and Islam do not sit well together, writes the Guardian’s Middle East editor Ian Black. Especially if the format is visual representation of the prophet Muhammad – and perhaps also the self-proclaimed caliph of Islamic State (Isis), now ruling swaths of Iraq and Syria, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.In a cartoon published just before Wednesday’s killings, Charlie Hebdo portrayed Baghdadi, apparently based on a photograph of him preaching in a mosque after the capture of the Iraqi city of Mosul last June and his proclamation of a new caliphate. It sarcastically wished him “especially good health”. 2.16pm GMT Former French foreign minister and co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières, Bernard Kouchner, who was friends with a number of the journalists killed, said that the country was at war. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4’s World at One he said that the attackers were trying to terrify the French people, but that they wouldn’t succeed, writes Frances Perraudin.“It is the beginning of a new era,” he said. “It is the globalisation of the fight – I know this is not only a European problem and this is not only a Middle East... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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We speak with Ben Schrank, the former head of Henry Holt and now head of upstart publisher Astra House, about the latest developments at the press and other bookish matters. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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We asked editors about some of the latest developments in the category: the portrayal of mental health issues and #MeToo trauma, and graphic novel–style memoirs and nonfiction for young readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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If Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillian, Penguin and Simon & Schuster thought they only had to contend with a federal ebook lawsuit in the US, they'd better think again. Australia's Competition and Consumer commission is inviting local businesses to raise formal concerns as it weighs... Continue reading at Engadget
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