Meeting between Hollande and Merkel postponed: official

A meeting between French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel planned in Strasbourg Sunday has been postponed after a series of attacks in Paris, said a spokesman for European parliament president Martin Schulz.
Armin Machmer, the spokesman for Schulz, who organised the meeting, said it has been delayed "because of the events" in France, where twin hostage dramas were playing out in the wake of the massacre Wednesday of 12 people at Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly.
The leaders had been due to hold a meeting to "discuss the future of Europe" and the relationship between France and Germany.

France has been gripped by fear in an already three-day drama that began when two gunmen stormed an editorial meeting at the satirical magazine and mowed down some of the nation's best-known cartoonists and two police officers.
A day later a gunman shot dead a policewoman and injured another person south of Paris.