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French Premier Manuel Valls ominously said in a conference that Islamism was capturing the hearts and minds of the people in France, the country which has the biggest Muslim population in Europe.

French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people.

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is courting controversy again by running cartoons deriding the response of predominantly Christian European countries to a flood of migrants from mainly Muslim war zones such as Syria and Iraq.