New Charlie Hebdo sells out in minutes

The new issue of Charlie Hebdo hits the shelves, and despite a five-million print run is sold out within minutes.

The “survivor’s issue” draws condemnation from several Arab states, including Iran, which says the cartoon “provokes the emotions of Muslims and hurts their feelings around the world, and could fan the flame of a vicious circle of extremism.”

The Islamic State group says the move is “extremely stupid,” and Turkish authorities prevented a local newspaper from including the magazine’s drawings of Muhammad in its pages.

Al-Qaeda in Yemen takes responsibility for the magazine attack, which killed 12 people, and says that the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was in “vengeance for the prophet.”

Meanwhile, Syria’s Bashar Assad offers condolences to the families of the Paris victims, and in an interview with Czech publication Literarni Noviny, he also calls on Western politicians to reconsider their backing of Syrian rebels and opposition.

He says Western politicians were “short-sighted” and France’s attacks proved that “what we said was true.”

— AP contributed