UK Prime Minister David Cameron has signed a book of condolence for the victims of the Paris attacks. He wrote: "We fly the Tricolore as a symbol of our solidarity because we know our shared values - liberté, egalité, fraternité - will triumph over the evil found in Paris last week."

French media are also reporting that police may have found another car used by the Paris attackers. The black Renault Clio was parked at Place Albert Kahn in the capital's 18th arrondissement (district). The car is registered in Belgium, where several of the suspects lived.

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A video entitled entitled To Paris, From Pakistan, external - aimed at sending a strong anti-terror message in the wake of the Paris attacks - has gone viral on Facebook, BBC monitoring reports.     

It was uploaded on a Facebook page called Pakistani Comedians on Sunday and features five men describing themselves as "Pakistani Muslims" who call for solidarity in the wake of the Paris attacks. But they warn that not all Muslims should be held responsible for what one of them describes as "the actions a few deranged individuals who somehow claim to be like us". 

The video has so far been viewed more than 1.2 million times

French news channel BFM TV reports, external that attack suspect Salah Abdeslam, who is the subject of an international manhunt, rented two hotel rooms in Alfortville, near Paris with his credit card. Police searched the rooms and found evidence that at least two people had stayed there, it says.

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European Union defence ministers have unanimously backed France's request for help with military missions in the wake of the Paris attacks, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says.

"Today the EU, through the voices of all the member states, unanimously expressed its strongest full support and readiness to give the assistance needed," she tells a news conference.

Earlier, France invoked Article 42.7 of the Treaty of the European Union, external, which says that all member states have an "obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power" towards another that is the "victim of armed aggression on its territory".

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The BBC's Kevin Connolly reports the house in the Paris suburb of Bobigny where French police conducted an overnight search operation is a three-storey townhouse in a quiet residential street. 

It stands opposite a nursery school where children are playing as usual in the grounds this morning. 

Our correspondent says, for the moment, neighbours are saying nothing about the police operation or about reports10:12 the building had been rented by the Paris attackers.

French media are reporting that police have found a safe house used by the men who carried out Friday's attacks in Paris. It is in Bobigny, a north-east suburb of the capital.

BBC Radio 5 live speaks to a a man who says he grew up next door to Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam in the Molenbeek district of the Belgian capital, Brussels.

Sheik Mohammed says: “Everyone knows he did something wrong, I hope they catch him."

BBC Monitoring reports on the comments made by Russian President Vladimir Putin about those who brought down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on 31 October, killing all 224 people on board.

Speaking at a security meeting held on Monday night, and aired on Rossiya 24 on Tuesday, Mr Putin said Russia's air campaign against "terrorists" in Syria would intensify. 

Sinai Province, an Egyptian jihadist group affiliated to Islamic State, has claimed that it brought down the airliner "in response to Russian air strikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land". 

On Tuesday, Russia confirmed that a "terror act" was responsible for the Sinai plane crash and that "traces of foreign explosives" were found on debris of the plane. 

Mr Kerry says that he is convinced that in the course of the next few weeks Islamic State "will feel even greater pressure".

"There is a clear strategy in place and step by step I am confident that the momentum will pick up," he adds.

Mr Kerry says he discussed with Mr Hollande the "significant steps that we believe we can take together in a number of different areas to increase our efforts, and be more effective even, against Daesh", using a pejorative term for the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) based on the acronym of a previous name in Arabic. 

"My sense is that everybody understands that with Lebanon's attacks, with what's happened in Egypt, with Ankara, Turkey, and the attacks now in Paris, we have to step up our efforts to hit them at the core, where they are planning these things."

US Secretary of State John Kerry is speaking to journalists after meeting President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris.

He praises the "extraordinary response of the French people and the courage that they have exhibited".

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The video showing a young pregnant woman desperately clinging to an open window during the attack at the Bataclan concert hall has become the iconic footage of Friday's attacks.

But the video cuts away before it is clear whether the woman is rescued, leaving people wanting to know what happened to her.

The Telegraph now reports that she is "safe and sound", external after being rescued by a heroic stranger called Sebastien.

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French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has confirmed that France has chosen to invoke Article 42.7 of the Treaty of the European Union, external. 

This article, which has reportedly never been triggered before, says that "if a member state is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other member states shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power". 

President Francois Hollande has stressed that France was attacked by a "terrorist army" operating from abroad. 

However, EU officials told the Financial Times, external that Article 42.7's invocation would have little substantive impact because it taps into no common defence infrastructure.

French Interior Bernard Cazeneuve says at least 115,000 police and army personnel have been mobilised to provide security across France in the aftermath of Friday's attacks.

More on Russia's claims that traces of explosive were found in the debris of an airliner that crashed while flying from Sharm el-Sheikh to Russia, killing all 224 people on board on 31 October. 

"One can unequivocally say that it was a terrorist act," Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's FSB security service, told a meeting chaired by President Vladimir Putin, according to a transcript published on the Kremlin's web site.

Quoting experts, Mr Bortnikov said the plane disintegrated in midair due to a bomb with the equivalent of 1kg of TNT. 

Tunisia has stopped a major militant attack planned this month against hotels and police stations, a government official quoted by Reuters says.