Mourning and manhunt after French magazine massacre

French security forces were desperately hunting today two brothers suspected of gunning down 12 people in an Islamist attack on a satirical weekly, as a stunned and outraged France mourned the victims.
The massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine yesterday triggered poignant and spontaneous demonstrations of solidarity around the world and more than 100,000 poured onto the streets of France.
Shocked people from Moscow to Washington rallied in their tens of thousands under the banner "I am Charlie", in support of press freedom and the controversial Charlie Hebdo magazine that has repeatedly lampooned the Prophet Mohammed.
As fear spread after the country's bloodiest attack in half a century, several other incidents rocked the jittery nation, although it was not clear whether they were linked to yesterday's attack.

A gunman shot dead a policewoman and wounded a city employee with an automatic rifle just to the south of Paris and there was an explosion at a kebab shop in eastern France, with no casualties immediately reported.
Two Muslim places of worship were fired at in the wake of yesterday's attacks, prosecutors said.

Declaring today a national day of mourning - only the fifth in the last 50 years - President Francois Hollande called the bloodbath "an act of exceptional barbarity" and "undoubtedly a terrorist attack".
But 24 hours after the brazen daylight assault, the masked, black-clad gunmen - who shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") while killing some of France's most outspoken journalists as well as two policemen - were still on the loose.

Police issued arrest warrants for Cherif Kouachi, 32, a known jihadist convicted in 2008 for involvement in a network sending fighters to Iraq, and his 34-year-old brother Said. Both were born in Paris.
The two men were likely to be "armed and dangerous," authorities warned.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said seven people had been detained in the hunt for the brothers, and a judicial source who refused to be named added these were men and women close to the suspects.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, meanwhile, told French radio the two suspects were known to intelligence services and were "no doubt" being followed before yesterday's attack.

The frantic manhunt stretched into the night with search- and-seizure operations in Strasbourg and towns near Paris, while in northeastern Reims, commandos raided a building later scoured by white-clad forensic police.