6am: As Australia wakes up, a recap of developments overnight in France, a nation on high alert. * Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre, have been killed in a clash with French security forces at a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris. The fugitives had holed up there with a hostage after shooting through a police checkpoint. The hostage was believed to have survived. * Another gunman who took at least five hostages Friday afternoon at a kosher grocery in Paris also died in a nearly simultaneous raid there, along with three of his hostages. The gunman, identified as Amedy Coulibaly, had earlier threatened to kill his hostages...
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