The mayor of Roanoke, Virginia has sparked outrage and confusion by saying in a letter that he opposes resettling any Syrian refugees in his city until "normalcy is restored" - and by drawing comparisons with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two.

A history teacher at Jewish school in Marseille was stabbed by three people shouting anti-Semitic messages on Wednesday evening, the local police chief has said, according to AFP. 

Reuters said the attackers claimed to be Islamic State supporters. 

The attack on the teacher took place around 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT), police said. 

The teacher's life is not in danger and a large number of police are hunting for the attackers, the police chief added, says AFP. 

Do Muslims have a special duty to speak out against so-called Islamic State?

"We've been condemning. But it's not the duty of all Muslims to speak up", Samia Hathroubi, a French Muslim, told the BBC's World Have Your Say.    

More here. 

In the US, a former CIA chief and former ambassador to Syria and Iraq have called on US forces to ramp up the air campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria and set up a safe zone to protect citizens from Syrian President Bashar Assad's bombing raids. 

Ambassador Ryan Crocker said that the air war needs to be increased to "actually degrade'' IS. 

John McLaughlin, former acting director of the CIA, argued the US needs to increase the intensity of the air campaign, send more US special operators, set up a safe zone and arm local forces.

Police have banned public demonstrations until 22 November in Paris and surrounding towns - using expanded security measures permitted under the state of emergency installed following Friday's attacks. 

The ban on marches and other demonstrations on public squares and roadways comes into effect at midnight (23:00 GMT). 

News agency Reuters, quoting prosecutors, is reporting that three people who attacked a teacher in Marseille were claiming to be from Islamic State. The agency says the teacher's life is not thought to be in danger. 

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Real Madrid and Khimki players observe a minute of silence in tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks prior to their Euroleague basketball match tonight. 

The French news agency AFP, citing police, is reporting a teacher at a Jewish school has been injured in a knife attack in Marseille. 

"We're incredibly lucky to be alive," say two British survivors of the Bataclan theatre attack in Paris.

Tony Scott and Justine Merton from Leeds were on the balcony of the concert hall when the gunmen opened fire.

They have been speaking to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire Programme. 

In the US, Barack Obama has described as "hysterical" the actions of two dozen state governors who are refusing to resettle Syrian refugees after the attacks in Paris.

The president said some Republican rhetoric on the issue was a "potent recruitment tool" for Islamic State militants.

The governors, mostly Republican, have pressed for bans in their states since it emerged one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe with migrants.

State department lawyers say states cannot lawfully stop refugees.

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Muslims around the world have been uploading videos and messages condemning the attacks in Paris last Friday.

BBC Trending has been taking a look at some of them. 

The Associated Press is reporting France's foreign minister has banned two marches planned to take during the upcoming Paris climate talks for security reasons.

On Wednesday the hashtag #JeSuisChien trended on Twitter in honor of the French police dog killed in Saint Denis raid.

The National Police said in a tweet that the seven-year-old Belgian Shepherd named Diesel was "killed by terrorists".

Here's what we have learned in the last couple of hours:

• The fate of the suspected organiser of Friday's attacks in Paris - Abdelhamid Abaaoud - remains unknown after a police raid in Saint-Denis earlier
• The Paris prosecutor confirmed he was not among eight people arrested during the raid 
• Human remains found in the rubble of the flat have yet to be identified  
• Police used 5,000 rounds of ammunition during the raid
• The main building targeted was hit so hard it is now at risk of collapse

Mr Molins said the police operation in Saint-Denis had foiled a new attack, stopping a "new terrorist cell" which appeared to be ready to strike.

While Mr Molins confirmed that fugitive suspect Salah Abdeslam and suspected mastermind Abdeslam Abaaoud were not among the arrested, he neither confirmed nor denied whether they were among the dead. The bodies are still being identified.

"At this time, I'm not in a position to give a precise and definitive number for the people who died, nor their identities, but there are at least two dead people," he told reporters.