A suspect has been charged with terrorism offences in Belgium for involvement in the Paris attacks
Crowds of people in Paris mark one week since the attacks with applause and dancing
French officials say the cousin of the presumed ringleader of the Paris attacks did not blow herself up in Wednesday's police raid in the Saint-Denis suburb
It has emerged that the suspected ringleader of the attacks had been able to travel from Syria to France undetected
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said France will maintain controls along all its borders with fellow EU countries for as long as the imminent threat of attacks remains
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Welcome back to our live coverage of the aftermath of the Paris attacks.
One week on from the day on which 129 people were killed in the French capital, EU interior and justice ministers are to hold emergency talks on how to deal with the security threat. We’ll be bringing you live coverage of those talks and other developments throughout the day.
We are now taking a break in our live coverage of the aftermath of the Paris attacks, including the news that the suspected ringleader of the attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in Wednesday's raid on Saint Denis. Thank you for following our updates.
We will resume our coverage early on Friday.
AP has profiled Hasna Aitboulahcen, the woman believed to have blown herself up during the raid that also killed the suspected Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
She is said to have lived a secular life, drinking alcohol and rarely visiting a mosque.
The Daily Mail quoted her brother Youssef, external as saying she she had had no interest in religion, never read the Koran and had only started wearing a Muslim veil a month ago.
The 26-year-old daughter of a Moroccan immigrant had been under police surveillance because her name came up in a drug-trafficking case, AP quoted an unnamed police union official as saying.
The authorities had tapped her phone at the time of the raid, AP reported.
Neighbours near her mother's home in the suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois told the BBC she endured a difficult childhood and spent time in foster care.
The Times carries a photo of Aitboulahcen on its Friday front page:
Earlier on Thursday, police searched Aitboulahcen's mother's home in Aulnay-sous-Bois. Her mother and brother then went with police for further questioning, according to eyewitnesses.
The mother and brother of the Paris female suicide bomber are taken in by police
A new take on the hashtag #PrayForParis has been circulating on social media. Graffiti artists in Paris and elsewhere have responded by painting walls and posting pictures on social media under the hash tag #SprayForParis. Here are a few examples.
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The UK Independent reports that the UN Security Council is "poised to declare common war against the jihadists" and suggests a draft resolution could be adopted "within days".
The BBC has spoken to Georg Maassen, the head of German intelligence.
He says an attack like that in Paris could happen in any European city.
More of Mr Maassen's interview will be available on the BBC on Friday.
The BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports
A senior British police officer has warned the UK home secretary that cuts to policing expected to be announced next week may "reduce very significantly" the UK's ability to respond to a Paris-style attack.
The warning, contained within a restricted document prepared for Theresa May, says the ability to mobilise large numbers of officers would "reduce very significantly across the country".
The Home Office refused to comment on the leaked document, Implications of the Paris Attack for UK Police Preparedness, which the BBC has seen.
Chancellor George Osborne is expected to announce cuts to the police budget of more than 20% when he addresses Parliament on Wednesday.
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"We discover like a hell on earth," the captain of the elite commando unit that stormed the Bataclan concert hall - where 89 people died - has told NBC news, external.
The captain, identified only as Jeremy, said his men found hundreds of people laying on the floor of the concert hall, blood everywhere and an eerie silence.
"No sound. Nobody was screaming," he said. "Nobody was moving because they were afraid of the terrorists."
Police shot one of the attackers, but two more remained inside a room with hostages.
"A lot of people... ask us to help them because they were wounded, bleeding and we had to say no - we have to find first the terrorist," he told NBC News. "It was difficult for the guys, for the men on the team."
He said they tried to negotiate with the attackers, but they only made demands relating to France's military involvement in Syria.
Police eventually broke down a door and behind a metal shield that was hit by 27 bullets. When the attackers realised the endgame had arrived, one blew himself up and the second tried to do the same but was shot, Jeremy said.
Image source, Getty ImagesFBI director James Comey has said there is currently "no credible threat" to the US of an attack by IS similar to the ones in Paris.
However, he said the FBI had stepped up its terrorism investigations.
Mr Comey added that he believed the number of Americans travelling to fight with IS was declining.
The US-based Information Technology Industry Council has said it opposes weakening encryption to assist the government in monitoring apps, emails and other internet communication for national security.
"After a horrific tragedy like the Paris attacks, we naturally search for solutions: weakening encryption is not a solution," said Dean Garfield, president of the association, which represents Apple, Google, Microsoft and others.
Some officials say the increasing use of encrypted email and messaging platforms, such as iMessage or WhatsApp, hamper their ability to monitor suspects and foil plots.
They want tech companies to build "back doors" into encrypted devices and platforms.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls has told French TV it remains unclear whether one of the suspected gunmen, Salah Abdeslam - the focus of a huge international manhunt - was currently in France or Belgium.
He also said that some of those linked to the Paris attacks had taken advantage of the chaos caused by Europe's migration crisis "to slip in" unnoticed.
Quote MessageThese individuals took advantage of the refugee crisis.. of the chaos, perhaps, for some of them to slip in to France. Others were in Belgium already. And others, I must remind you, were in France
The prime minister said France now faced a "permanent threat" from terrorism.
Quote MessageThe threat is still very present, at this moment as the investigation is still ongoing, we don't know if there are groups, or individuals directly linked to Paris attacks on Friday evening, to Saint Denis, we still don't know if there are still active groups. We can imagine there are and that is the reason the threat is still present and this threat is going to be long and permanent and this is the reason of our strong response to fight this war.
Image source, AFP/GettyDemocratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, giving a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, said he believed Muslim nations should take the lead on destroying IS.
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Moroccan intelligence helped put French investigators on the trail of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, AFP reported quoting police sources.
A Moroccan tip-off, along with other information, helped police track Abaaoud to the apartment block in Saint Denis, where he was killed in a raid on Wednesday.
Here's the BBC's Washington Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue on tonight's vote in the House of Representatives.
Quote MessageThe proposed new restrictions would require the head of the FBI, the director of National Intelligence and the head of Homeland security to approve each and every Iraqi or Syrian who wanted to come to the US. That is on top of a system that already involves multiple interviews and takes between 18 months and two years to navigate. President Obama has already set his face against the restrictions, though almost fifty members of his own party voted to back the move - an embarrassment for the White House. It would require a two- thirds majority in Congress to override the veto, which is unlikely, but the vote demonstrates how high passions are running over who should be allowed to settle in the US."
France does not know if Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam is in France or Belgium, French PM Manuel Valls said tonight.
Authorities also do not know whether there are more groups linked directly to the gunmen still at large, he added.
And he said some of the attackers used the current refugee crisis to "slip into" France.
Quote MessageThe threat is there. We don't know at this point in the investigation if there are groups, individuals, who are directly linked to the attack on Friday evening, in Paris, in Saint-Denis."
Soon after the House of Representatives passed a bill to effectively halt the Syrian and Iraqi refugee program in the US, the State Department gave an overview of current procedures - which the agency thinks are sufficient.
Simon Henshaw of the department said refugees go through "the most vigorous screening" of any traveller to the US.
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More from Frank Gardner on how Abaaoud organised the Paris attacks:
Quote MessageOne of the big questions here is about digital encryption. How was it that quite a big complicated plot involving three different cells hitting three different locations could be organised without being detected? Did they simply just not go online, or were they using encrypted apps that French intelligence were not able to penetrate or took too long to get into?"
French TV station TF1 says it has obtained audio of a shouted conversation between police and the woman who was killed in the Saint Denis raid on Wednesday.
Paris attacks: Audio of woman in Paris raid
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The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that seeks to block Syrian and Iraqi refugees from being admitted into the US unless they pass even stricter background checks than currently exist.
Republicans almost unanimously supported the bill, which also saw broad support from Democrats.
The bill still has to pass the Senate and President Barack Obama has made clear he would veto it if it crossed his desk.
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