10 things you need to know today: January 11, 2015

1. Massive rally held in Paris following terror attacks

Hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of world leaders gathered in Paris Sunday for a unity march in response to a series of recent terror attacks. Organizers expected up to one million people to attend the anti-terror event, including British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The rally came after self-proclaimed radical Muslims last week staged attacks on a Jewish supermarket and the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. "Today, Paris is capital of the world," French President Francois Hollande said ahead of the march. "The whole country will stand up."

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2. Arsonists attack German newspaper over Charlie Hebdo cartoons

German police on Sunday arrested two suspects believed to have set fire to the office of a newspaper that republished cartoons from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The newspaper, Hamburger Morgenpost, published the cartoons one day after terrorists killed 12 people in an attack on Charlie Hebdo's Paris office. A police spokesperson said authorities found stones and a molotov cocktail at the scene, but declined to identify the suspects.

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3. Paris gunman tied to third shooting

The gunman who killed five people in a Friday standoff at a Jewish supermarket in France has been linked to another shooting from earlier in the week, a prosecutor said Sunday. Ballistics tests from the shooting on Wednesday of a jogger in a Paris suburb matched the gun used by Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a police officer and four hostages Friday before police killed him. Also Sunday, a video surfaced that appeared to show Coulibaly pledging allegiance to ISIS and discussing last week's terror attacks.

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4. White House to host summit on preventing violent extremism

The Obama administration announced Sunday that it would host an international summit next month to discuss ways to curtail violent extremism around the world. To be held Feb. 18, the summit will include representatives from fellow nations who are "actively implementing programs to prevent violent extremism and foreign terrorist fighter recruitment," the White House said in a statement. The conference became more imperative following recent terror attacks in Paris, Sydney, and Ottawa, Canada, the statement said.

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5. George Zimmerman arrested on assault charge

Florida police on Friday arrested George Zimmerman for aggravated assault after he allegedly threw a wine bottle at his girlfriend. In 2013, a jury acquitted Zimmerman in the "stand your ground" shooting death of an unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, a case that sparked a national conversation about race. The 31-year-old Zimmerman has had numerous run-ins with the law since then, including an incident in which he allegedly pointed a gun at his then-girlfriend during an argument.

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6. U.S. rejects North Korean nuke offer as 'threat'

The United States has rejected an offer from North Korea to halt military drills with South Korea in exchange for Pyongyang temporarily suspending nuclear tests. Saying North Korea was "inappropriately" linking the two issues, the White House dismissed the proposal as an "implicit threat." North Korea made its overture on Friday, calling it a "crucial step" to improving relations between the two countries.

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7. AirAsia believes search team found crashed plane's black box

AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes said Sunday the airline had "strong info" to believe search crews had located the black box belonging to Flight 8501, which crashed last month en route Singapore. In addition, Indonesian search teams scouring the Java Sea said they believed they had located the plane's fuselage and hoped to retrieve it Monday.

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8. ISIS kills at least 24 Kurds in sneak attack

Islamic State militants on Saturday killed at least two dozen Kurdish pershmerga forces in a surprise attack in northern Iraq. Some reports pegged the death toll at 30. The deaths came near the Kurdish-held town of Gwer, an outpost that could hold strategic importance for retaking northern Iraq's largest city, Mosul, which ISIS has controlled since summer.

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9. Buffalo Bills to hire Rex Ryan as new coach

The Buffalo Bills are finalizing a deal to make Rex Ryan their new head coach. The cantankerous coach spent the past six years at the helm of the New York Jets, leading them to the AFC title game in each of his first two seasons. But Ryan's boisterous outbursts and another disappointing season — the Jets went 4-12 this year and missed the playoffs for a fourth-straight time — led New York to can him late last month.

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10. Actress Anita Ekberg dead at 83

Anita Ekberg, the Swedish actress and sex symbol best known for her role in the 1960 film La Dolce Vita, died Sunday morning due to complications from a lingering illness. She was 83-years-old. Ekberg won the Miss Sweden title in 1950 and, in 1956, a Golden Globe.

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