Author: NEWEurope.

The latest on the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt that killed all 224 people onboard last Saturday. (All times local.)

11:50 a.m.

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is outraged at a cartoon in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo mocking the Russian plane crash in Egypt.

Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday that Moscow views the cartoon as “blasphemy.”

It’s one of dozens of cartoons in this week’s edition of Charlie Hebdo, which has been beset by tensions this year over whether there should be limits, after 12 people were killed at the magazine’s offices by Islamic extremists over the paper’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The small cartoon appears on the magazine’s back page and shows plane parts and a passenger falling from the sky onto a bearded, armed man in what appears to be an Islamic robe.

The commentary reads: Islamic State: Russian aviation intensifies its bombardments. Russians have been bombing

Lawmakers at the Russian State Duma voiced their outrage as well, calling on the government to blacklist the French publication as extremist literature and insisting that the French authorities react and apologize.

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11:20 a.m.

In the Netherlands, a KLM spokeswoman would not elaborate on the Dutch carrier’s decision to only allow passengers to take hand luggage on board a plane that left Cairo airport on Friday.

Gedi Schrijver repeated a KLM statement that it was a precautionary measure based on “national and international information.”

She told The Associated Press that “the airport in Cairo is good, because we can fly there without restrictions, but loading baggage in the hold via Cairo airport we have decided not to do that based on the information.”