GROZNY, Russia: The furious backlash against French magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed rumbled on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) with a huge rally in Chechnya, Afghan protesters burning the French flag and Gazans levelLing threats against France.

Hundreds of thousands of people flooded into the centre of Grozny, the capital of Russia's Muslim North Caucasus region of Chechnya, for a mammoth state-sponsored demonstration against caricatures of Mohammed.

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