The magazine became a symbol of freedom of speech after it was the target of a deadly attack by Islamist militants in January for running cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad.

The latest edition has attracted attention and criticism on social media.

One drawing plays on the harrowing photo of Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian child whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey after a failed attempt to cross by boat with his family to Greece. The photograph galvanized world attention on the refugee crisis. 

The Charlie Hebdo cartoon shows a toddler in shorts and a T-shirt face-down on the shoreline. Beside him is an advertising billboard that offers two children’s meal menus for the price of one.

“So close to making it…” the caption says.

Another cartoon, also penned by a cartoonist who survived the militant attack on Charlie Hebdo’s Paris office in January, runs under a caption saying: “Proof that Europe is Christian”.

It shows a Jesus-like figure walking on the water while another, smaller figure wearing shorts is up-ended in the water. The former says “Christians walk on water” and the latter “Muslim children sink.”

Newspapers from Asia to North America noted the cartoons.

“Aylan Kurdi’s death mocked by Charlie Hebdo,” read a headline in the Toronto Sun. “Charlie Hebdo criticized for dead Syrian toddler’s cartoon,” said the Times of India.

Many other media outlets stopped short of condemning the magazine but suggested Charlie Hebdo could face further troubles or legal issues for its latest work.

Britain’s The Independent, however, quoted expert Maajid Nawaz of the Quilliam think-tank as saying the cartoons were clearly intended as an indictment of European failings toward refugees.

Some other media outlets also said they appeared to be above all denouncing hypocrisy and consumerism in Europe.

A Charlie Hebdo spokeswoman contacted by Reuters said the newspaper was unaware of any complaints filed against it.

The publication received an outpouring of solidarity after the January attack, in which two assailants killed 12 people, including its editor-in-chief and top cartoonists.

It had been struggling financially with weekly sales as low as 30,000 but went on to sell millions of copies worldwide.

The slogan “Je Suis Charlie,” or “I am Charlie,” resounded around the world.

But many social network users vented anger and frustration over the new cartoons, using a new Twitter hashtag — #JeNeSuisPasCharlie (I Am Not Charlie).