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A6 WORLD NEWS
Friday 30 OctOber 2020
Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

By ANGELA CHARLTON and ward French people of im-
LORI HINNANT migrant backgrounds. Be-
Associated Press cause France isn't divided
PARIS (AP) — It's been tar- between Muslims and non-
geted again and again, Muslims, between believ-
threatened and fire- ers and non-believers, be-
bombed and struck in an tween people with French
attack that killed a dozen roots and French people of
staff members, but satirical immigrant backgrounds,"
French newspaper Charlie read this week's editorial
Hebdo won't stop poking from Charlie Hebdo's edi-
fun at Islamic extremism. tor, who goes by the name
The newspaper's many crit- Riss. "No, France is divided
ics worldwide say its edito- between democrats and
rial staff is attacking Islam anti-democrats,"
itself; the people who work The paper drew ire for re-
for Charlie Hebdo says they printing caricatures of the
are calling out intolerance, Muslim Prophet Muham-
oppression and a political mad originally published by
form of Islam that threat- a Danish magazine in 2005
ens democracy. But with and republished the follow-
freedom of expression as ing year by Charlie Hebdo
its credo, the publication Police officers stand guard near Notre Dame church in Nice, southern France, Thursday, Oct. 29, . Those cartoons were seen
routinely pushes the limits of 2020. as sacrilegious in Islam, and
French hate speech laws Associated Press many Muslims worldwide
with often sexually explicit fatally attacked in a week's issue features a car- chronicled the proceed- felt genuinely hurt by them
caricatures that take on or church. toon of the funeral of a be- ings daily and devoted — but condemned the vio-
offend nearly everyone. Charlie Hebdo has lam- headed teacher, showing nearly half of its weekly lence that has come in re-
Its decision to publish new pooned dead child mi- officers carrying two cof- covers to mocking Islamic sponse.
cartoons this week ridicul- grants, virus victims, dying fins, one for the body, one extremism, In 2011, Charlie Hebdo's of-
ing its opponents in the drug addicts, world lead- for the head. "We need strong actions fices were firebombed af-
Islamic world formed the ers, neo-Nazis, popes, bish- Since a trial opened last to stop Islamism but also ter it published a spoof issue
backdrop for yet another ops, Jewish leaders, and month over the 2015 attack to condemn the slightest that "invited" the prophet to
attack Thursday in France, other religious, political and that killed 12 of its cartoon- gesture, the slightest intol- be its guest editor. His cari-
where three people were entertainment figures. This ists, the newspaper has erant or hateful word to- cature was on the cover.q

Typhoon, landslides leave 35 dead, dozens missing in Vietnam

and he ordered officers to Agency reported. As troops scrambled to res-
urgently send more troops In Tra Leng village, about cue those buried alive in
to help with the efforts. 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Tra Leng, another part of
"We must reach the land- Tra Van, another landslide a rain-soaked mountain-
slide site the fastest way. buried a community with side cascaded down in a
First, send in more soldiers several houses occupied torrent of mud in nearby
before we can get the big by about 45 people. Four Phuoc Loc district, killing
machine there. We have people escaped, while three people and trapping
to reach the area by all rescuers recovered eight 11, Vietnam News said.
means, including by using bodies and later pulled out Other villagers in Phuoc
helicopters," he said. four villagers alive, includ- Loc were advised to flee to
Also among the dead ing two children, who were safety given the unstable
were 12 fishermen whose trapped in a buried house, mountain slope.
boats sank Wednesday Vietnam News said. The three landslide-hit ar-
as Typhoon Molave ap- The survivors pulled from eas lie in the mountains of
proached with winds of up the thick brown debris were hard-hit Quang Nam prov-
A landslide damages houses in a village in Phuoc Loc district, to 150 kilometers (93 miles) brought to a hospital with ince in a coastal region still
Quang Nam province, Vietnam Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020. per hour. Another 14 fisher- arm and leg fractures and recovering from floods that
Associated Press man were still missing. other injuries. Rescuers con- killed 136 people and de-
By HAU DINH said. Officials said the death toll tinued a frantic search for stroyed hundreds of houses
Associated Press The immediate focus for across the country may rise at least 33 others believed earlier this month.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A rescuers was on three vil- as some regions have been to be buried. Quang Nam, a tourist draw
typhoon that officials said lages in the country's cen- unable to report details of Tra Leng was initially inac- for an ancient town and
was the most powerful tral region where landslides damage and casualties. cessible due to damaged Hindu temples, is about 800
to hit Vietnam in 20 years killed at least 19 people Rescuers dug up eight bod- roads, flooding and other kilometers (500 miles) south-
blew away from the coun- and are suspected of bury- ies Thursday morning in Tra landslides but by Thursday east of Hanoi.
try on Thursday after setting ing more than 40 others in Van village in Quang Nam afternoon government Elsewhere, four people
off landslides, sinking boats thick mud and debris. province where a hillside disaster-response teams were killed by falling trees
and knocking out power to Deputy Prime Minister Trinh collapsed on houses. The were able to open up a and collapsed houses in
at least 1.7 million people. Dinh Dung traveled to the victims had taken shelter road with bulldozers and Quang Nam and Gia Lai
At least 35 people were site of one landslide where in the community as the excavators and brought in provinces when the ty-
killed and more than 50 soldiers were working to typhoon approached, more rescuers and heavy phoon slammed into the
were missing, state media clear debris with bulldozers the official Vietnam News equipment. coast Wednesday. q