The upper house of the French parliament, the Senate, has voted almost unanimously to extend the state of emergency for three months.

Hasna Aitboulahcen, the woman who died during a police raid on Saint Denis on Wednesday, did not blow herself up, French media are reporting.

Police sources have told local media that the suicide bomber was a man, not a woman.

Local TV station iTele reported, external that a third terrorist blew himself up and the force of the explosion blew Aitboulahcen apart. Parts of her body were reported to have landed on a police vehicle in the street below the apartment police were raiding.

Aitboulahcen was reported to have shouted "help me" to police before the explosion that killed her.

A member of the police brigade besieging the apartment told the BBC: "She was trying to say she was not linked to the terrorists, that she had nothing to do with them and wanted to surrender."

But the commandos believed she was trying to manipulate them, the officer said.

Le Monde journalist Daniel Psenny captured the shocking footage of Bataclan concertgoers clinging to balconies outside the venue during last week’s attacks.

He was later shot himself.

Police assault team member "Hugo", who took part in the Saint Denis raid, told the BBC:

French police tweet that they have received 10,000 calls to their anti-terror hotline since last Friday's attacks.

Policemen who took part in the St Denis raid have told BBC correspondent Fergal Keane of the moment the terrorists opened fire.

Ticket sales for shows and performances in Paris are down by 80% since the attacks last Friday, France's producers association Prodiss says.

French authorities have imposed a curfew on a neighbourhood in the town of Sens, about 100km (62 miles) southeast of Paris, French media report.

The move - enabled under the national state of emergency currently in force - bans all pedestrian and vehicle movement in the neighbourhood of Champs-Plaisants between 10pm and 6am from Friday evening until Monday morning.

It follows the discovery of weapons and false documents there in earlier raids. A number of people have been taken into custody, the authorities said.

Toys R Us will remove toy guns from the shelves of its French stores as well as other toys that could confuse police in light of the Paris attacks, the AFP news agency reports.

"Toys R Us management asked its store directors in France to remove 23 toys that looked like guns and weapons," the global toy giant said.

"This decision was taken in light of the Paris attacks.

"It was taken because these toys could be misinterpreted as real weapons."

Toys R Us said light sabres and water guns will still be sold in the 48 stores it has in France.

The company did not say how long the toys would be off the shelves.

French President Francois Hollande has welcomed Morocco's King Mohammed VI to the Elysee palace in Paris, where they will hold talks in the wake of the Paris attacks.

It has been reported that the younger brother of suspected Paris attacks 'ringleader' Abdelhamid Abaaoud was arrested last month in Morocco.

Moroccan authorities arrested Yassine Abaaoud after he arrived in his father's hometown of Agadir, Moroccan security sources said, and he has been held in custody.

It is not clear if he has any connection to the Paris attacks.

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Paris St-Germain will wear a special kit with 'Je Suis Paris' below their crest for three games, starting with Saturday's trip to Lorient.

It is the capital side's first game since 130 people were killed in the attacks last Friday.

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It is "too soon to speculate" whether the hostage situation in Mali is related in some way to the attacks in Paris last week, a US presidential envoy to the coalition battling so-called Islamic State has said.

"The groups in Mali aren't particularly connected to the ISIS groups," Brett McGurk told MSNBC.

An al Qaeda-linked group has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, where more than 100 guests and staff have been seized.

French special forces have deployed outside the hotel after travelling from Burkina Faso, the defence ministry said.

US special forces are also involved in the operation and have rescued at least six Americans, a US military spokesman said.

France has 3,500 troops operating in Mali and four other countries in the Sahel region as part of a five-nation counter-terrorism operation codenamed Barkhane.

The BBC's Yolande Knell has been speaking to Joel Touitou, who owned the Bataclan concert hall - where 89 people were killed last Friday - until September. He has since moved to Israel.

He says he understands the Bataclan will reopen and says the attack has catalysed a strong response from across French society under the slogan 'Generation Bataclan'.

People continue to visit the flowers, candles and messages left in tribute to the victims of the attacks near Paris' Bataclan concert hall, one week on.

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The first compensation payments were made this morning for relatives and those injured in the Paris attacks, the Finance Ministry has tweeted.

France will maintain controls along all its borders with fellow EU countries for as long as the imminent threat of attacks remains, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said.

European Union ministers have also agreed to strengthen the EU's external borders, with tighter checks on all passengers entering the Schengen zone -- the area of free movement within the EU. 

"It's a crucial change," said Mr Cazeneuve. 

Other measures have also been agreed to tackle the movement of firearms and to extend the so-called Passenger Name Record or PNR-programme to inner-European flights. 

The package now needs to be formalised and has to pass a vote in the European Parliament.

The BBC's Tom Burridge has been speaking to Zahir Dehgain - a neighbour of Hasna Aitboulahcen's mother in Aulnay-sous-Bois:

"A year-and-a-half ago, she was dressed in the European way, with a handbag and make-up and then suddenly she was wearing the hijab. You know, all black where you can only see her face. But despite that she was saying hello. But really we never suspected she would become like that. 

"We didn't see her for six months or more, but we don’t ask. Some people were saying that she was going to Syria but I didn’t care. 

"But at one point I saw her with the hijab and I was doubting. Still she was really kind. She came to my house several times, she was coming here with my two daughters but we never suspected she would come like that. 

"Two months ago she was here, wearing the hijab. I said hello. But she was trying to avoid everyone. We didn’t know she was a terrorist, but the hijab said something. She was working at a construction materials shop. 

"I saw the pictures on TV and was very shocked."

The French prime minister Manuel Valls says the death toll from last Friday's attacks has risen to 130, AP reports.

It follows the death in hospital of one of those critically wounded in the attacks, AFP quoted a source close to Mr Valls as saying.

Bassim Braiki, a Muslim from the town of Venissieux near Lyon, has posted a video on the internet that has gone viral. He calls for French Muslims to fight jihadists who are tarnishing Islam. He says that French authorities will not be able to tackle the problem of radicalisation without their help. He also calls on fellow Muslims to report suspicious behaviour to the police and not worry about being seen as turncoats.

The video - which can be seen on Facebook here, external or on YouTube here, external - has been watched almost six million times on Facebook. It contains some explicit language (in French).

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