France mourns attack victims, steps up hunt for terrorists

It was a day of mourning and defiance, of brave words and choking sadness. In Israel, four Jews, killed in Paris on Friday, were buried; a militant claiming allegiance to the Islamic State had seized them as hostages at a kosher supermarket on the final day of a three-day rampage by extremists. In Paris, three coffins draped in the French tricolor banner were laid out at the central police station as a solemn-faced President François Hollande led tributes to the officers who had perished, reports The New York Times.