Record numbers of people are applying to join the French army up in the wake of the Paris attacks, Le Monde reports, external.

The number of applications has risen to 1,500 per day, up from 500 per day before the attacks.

President Hollande had already decided to halt cuts in army personnel following January's attacks on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket and the army will have recruited 15,000 people in 2015, up from 10,000 the previous year, and is set to recruit 16,000 people next year.

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US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has vowed to keep American troops out of Syria, even if there is a terrorist attack in the US.

In an interview with CNN, she called on Arab countries to supply troops on the ground in Syria.

Mrs Clinton said she largely backs President Barack Obama's anti-IS efforts, though she thinks defeating extremists is more important that ousting Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

"This is a time for American leadership. No other country can rally the world to defeat ISIS and win the generational struggle to defeat jihadism," she said. "The entire world must be part of this fight, but we must lead it."

She also decried Republican efforts to halt the processing of Syrian refugees into the US, saying "we are better than that".

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The team at Le Carillon restaurant in Paris - where 15 people died in Friday's attack that also targeted another restaurant nearby - has put a note on its door expressing condolences to the victims' families and asking people to stay united in grief but also in hope.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (centre) and Saint Denis Mayor Didier Paillard (right) have paid their respects near the Stade de France - one of the sites targeted by attackers last Friday.

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The BBC's Tom Burridge has been speaking to people near an apartment block in Aulnay-sous-Bois where police have searched the home of the mother of the woman believed to have detonated a suicide belt during the Saint Denis raid.

One woman said she had known the suspect, identified as Hasna Aitboulahcen, since childhood:

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US President Barack Obama on Thursday spoke by phone with his French counterpart Francois Hollande to discuss the latest developments in the ongoing investigation of last week's attacks in Paris, the White House says. 

Mr Obama "once again expressed condolences on behalf of the American people to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives in these horrific attacks, to the wounded, and to the French nation". 

"Both leaders reiterated their unwavering commitment to degrade and destroy ISIL (islamic State)," the White House adds.

Greece has no evidence that the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks has ever been in the country, a Greek interior ministry official is quoted as saying by Reuters.

Earlier, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said "intelligence services of a country outside Europe indicated they had knowledge of his presence in Greece". The minister did not specify when the suspect was in Greece.

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French forensic teams are continuing their investigation in Saint Denis following Wednesday's raids in which Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, was killed.

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French media are reporting that one of the bombs launched by French fighter jets at IS targets in the Syrian city of Raqqa failed to explode and could be in the hands of the extremists.

A spokesman said the French military had received credible reports that one of the roughly 60 bombs dropped during three raids over the IS self-proclaimed capital did not explode and could be found and used in some way by IS.

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Air France has had some reduction in traffic following last week's attacks, a company source is quoted as saying by the AFP news agency. 

The source said it was too early to say how big the impact on bookings could be, adding that Air France is monitoring the process and remains "extremely vigilant".

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, used social media to try to recruit women from Spain to join Islamic State, Spain's Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz has told a Spanish TV channel.

He said this was in line with the extremists' campaign to recruit women to help populate the area of Syria and Iraq under its control.

The BBC's Tom Burridge says he can see police activity taking place at an apartment block in Aulnay-sous-Bois, northeast of Paris. Reports say the block is where the mother of Hasna Aitboulahcen, the alleged suicide bomber in Saint Denis, lives.

La Marseillaise will be played before kick-off at all English Premier League football games this weekend.

Playing the anthem "as an act of solidarity and remembrance is the right thing to do," said executive chairman Richard Scudamore.

There are 72 French footballers currently playing in the Premier League.

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The funeral of Amine Ibnolmobarak, a 29-year-old Moroccan architect who was killed at Le Carillon bar during the attacks in Paris last Friday, has taken place in the Moroccan capital Rabat.

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Abdelhamid Abaaoud confirmed killed in Paris raid

• A body recovered after Wednesday's bloody raid in Saint Denis has been identified as the suspected Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Paris prosecutor's office says

• French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says Abaaoud left for Syria in 2014 and French authorities were not aware he had returned to Europe

• Abbaoud was involved in four of six terror attacks thwarted by French intelligence since the spring, Mr Cazeneuve says

Second body believed to be Hasna Aitboulachen

• Numerous reports have identified the woman who activated a suicide vest at the Saint Denis flat as Hasna Aitboulachen, thought to be Abaaoud's cousin

French lower house passes security bills

• MPs have voted to extend the state of emergency in France for another three months
• Police to be given new powers to more easily detain people and conduct searches
• French PM Manuel Valls has warned extremists could use chemical and biological weapons in attacks
• French police are now allowed to carry weapons off-duty

Belgian raids

• Belgian police arrested nine people during nine raids in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek as well as the wealthier areas of Uccle and Laeken 

• Two of the detentions were related to Friday's attacks, the federal prosecutor's office said
• A further seven people were taken in during six raids linked to French national stadium bomber Bilal Hadfi

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A French-language Twitter account purportedly administered from IS-held territories and used by the group for disseminating propaganda has acknowledged the death of presumed Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud. 

The account on Thursday published a photo of Abaaoud and began the tweet with the words: "Allah have mercy on you" - a formula used when addressing the dead.

A demonstration against terrorism planned by Muslim organisations to be held on Friday outside the Grand Mosque in Paris has been cancelled for security reasons, French media report.

The mosque said the necessary security conditions were not in place.

Coming up on BBC World TV at 1500GMT - a live debate on why Paris has been attacked and what next for Islamic State with jihadist and terrorism expert Charles Lister, Chatham House fellow Hassan Hassan, French Senator Nathalie Goulet and former Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino.