The battle between pen and sword in France came down to a gunfight as French police killed the two brothers who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre. In a related raid, police stormed a kosher supermarket and killed a gunman. Several hostages were freed from the market, but at least four are dead. French President Francois Hollande praised the work of police, and urged citizens to resist “anything and everything that can divide us … unity is our best weapon.” Here’s The Guardian with the latest.

+ “Hayat Boumeddiene went from anonymous to the most-wanted woman in France almost instantly Friday.” The Daily Beast on the search for a 26 year-old woman linked to the murder of a policewoman and possibly to the kosher market hostage standoff.

+ A timeline of the Charlie Hebdo attacks: Three days of madness.

+ Slate: “Violent acts of ‘blasphemy’ are unfortunately pretty common. They’re just usually perpetrated by governments.”

+ In Saudi Arabia, a convicted blogger was flogged in public 50 times for writing pieces critical of influential clerics. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison is still scheduled to receive 950 more floggings.