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Over 700,000 Rally Across France After Attacks

More than 700,000 people have taken part in rallies across France after three days of terror that claimed 17 innocent lives, says French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

Around 80,000 gathered in Toulouse, 40,000 in Pau, 30,000 in Nantes, 23,000 in Nice, 22,000 in Orleans and 20,000 in Besancon to demonstrate against the Paris attacks, said officials.

It comes ahead of a march of unity in the capital on Sunday which is expected to draw huge crowds and will be attended by world leaders.

Among those set to be at the event were Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Mr Cazeneuve said the government will take "all measures" to ensure the march is safe.

More than 5,500 police and military personnel will be deployed in Paris for the security operation, including 2,200 to guard the route. Police marksmen will be on roofs.

Some 2,000 police officers and 1,350 soldiers will be stationed around the city, including at places of worship, media outlets and public buildings.

In a sombre speech after the sieges had been brought to an end, French President Francois Hollande said: "I call on all the French people to rise up this Sunday, together, to defend the values of democracy, freedom and pluralism to which we are attached."

Brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi attacked the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, shooting dead 12 people in France's deadliest terror attack in decades .

The pair then went on the run, and were eventually killed after a two-day manhunt.

Amedy Coulibaly, a jihadist gunman who said he had worked with the brothers, was also killed by police after killing four hostages at a kosher grocery shop in an eastern suburb of Paris.

A day earlier he shot and killed a policewoman in Montrouge, just south of Paris.

Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, who was identified along with Coulibaly as a suspect in the killing of a police officer on Thursday, remains on the run .

She is believed to have fled the country bound for Syria before the sieges reached a bloody conclusion.

Meanwhile, Mr Netanyahu told French Jews that Israel was their home and ordered a ministerial committee to discuss ways of encouraging immigration of French and other European Jews to Israel.

He said: "To all the Jews of France, all the Jews of Europe, I would like to say that Israel is not just the place in whose direction you pray, the state of Israel is your home.

"Unless the world comes to its senses, terror will continue to strike in other places."

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