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            Charlie Hebdo Giving $4 Million in Donations to Victims

   by Associated Press

   Charlie Hebdo, the satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated by
   Islamic extremist gunmen, is giving nearly 4 million euros ($4.4
   million) to victims of the three days of attacks in January.

   The publication was targeted Jan. 7 for its caricatures of the Prophet
   Muhammad by a pair of French-born brothers who killed 12 people --most
   of them journalists -- during an editorial meeting. The three days of
   attacks, coordinated with a third man targeting a kosher supermarket
   and policewoman, left a total of 17 dead before the gunmen died in
   police raids.

   In a statement Wednesday, Charlie Hebdo said it would turn over the
   donations from 84 countries, and that the French government would
   appoint an oversight committee to determine how the money would be
   redistributed.
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