Paris shootings: what we know so far

Hunt for girlfriend of gunman continues as Al Qaeda claims responsibility for attacks

Ruadhan Mac Cormaic describes the mood in Paris after a dark, disorienting week that came to a brutal end last night with dramatic shootouts. Video: Reuters/Getty/DCOM

Here are some of the latest developments in the Paris terror situation:

- Police are continuing to hunt for Hayat Boumeddiene (26) the girlfriend of gunman Amedy Coulibaly, who is believed to have shot and killed four people at a Jewish supermarket in Paris where 19 people were taken hostage. Coulibaly was shot dead as the siege came to an end.

- Brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who are suspected of killing 12 people at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, were shot dead by police on Friday afternoon after a tense stand-off on an industrial estate outside Paris.

- Prosecutor Francois Molins says Coulibaly and Boumeddiene spoke with the Kouachi brothers “ 500 times” over the telephone during the standoffs.

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- Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack.

- Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve calls for "extreme vigilance" after an emergency security meeting in Paris on Saturday.

- A journalist tells how he called the warehouse where the Kouachi brothers were in a standoff with police before their death and spoke to Cherif.

- French president Francois Hollande calls on the country to "remain vigilant" as the hostage crisis which started at the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre came to a bloody end with the loss of at least 20 lives.

- The US has issued a global travel warning for Americans following the Paris incident as well as attacks last month in Sydney and the October killing of a solder near Canada’s parliament.

- Ruadhán Mac Cormaic and Lara Marlowe on how a dark, disorienting week in France reached a brutal end.

- Irish based imam Shaykh Dr Umar al-Qadri launches a fierce denunciation of what happened in Paris in the name of his religion

- US counterterrorism officials say the Kouachi brothers had been tracked as potential jihadists.

- Paris Correspondent Lara Marlowe on why jihad came to Paris.

- Daily newspaper Liberation is providing Charlie Hebdo space and facilities to allow the satirical magazine to publish after a fatal attack on its offices.