It's still unclear whether suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud was among those killed in Wednesday's major police raid.

The Washington Post, external quotes unnamed European officials as saying Abaaoud, 27, was killed when heavily armed police stormed the building in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis.  

The Paris prosecutor said neither he nor suspect Salah Abdeslam were among eight people arrested, but two bodies are yet to be officially identified. 

One is a woman who detonated a suicide belt as police moved in. She has been named in numerous media reports as Hasna Aitboulahcen, a 26-year-old cousin of Abbaoud. 

Meanwhile a leader of one of the special forces units that took part in the raid said they found a body that "was mutilated, probably from grenades and he wasn't recognisable".

Jean-Michel Fauverge told Le Figaro newspaper: "Other people were in the stairwell, two men hiding under blankets and whatever they could find. We arrested them."

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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel says the country will spend 400 million euros (£280m) to fight radical Islamist violence.

He says it will be used to fight hate speech, bolster intelligence services and track potential radicals, Reuters reported. 

Belgium will also start jailing people that return from fighting in Syria and closing down "unrecognised places of worship". 

Some of the Paris attackers have been linked to the Brussels' neighbourhood of Mollenbeek. Read more about the area here, external.

Authorities have launched six raids in the Brussels area of Belgium. They are said to be linked to Paris suicide bomber Bilal Hadfi, AP reports. Hadfi, 20, detonated a bomb outside the Stade de France stadium during Friday's attacks.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has responded to a video released by so-called Islamic State on Wednesday showing images of Times Square. The city is preparing to hold major tourist events next week, including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. 

A Muslim woman was wounded with a box cutter in a race-hate attack following the Paris terrorist atrocities, France's interior minister has said. 

Bernard Cazeneuve condemned the assault and another attack on a Jewish teacher as "cowardly" and urged French citizens to remember the "values of the Republic". 

The young woman, who was wearing a veil, was punched and slashed as she left a metro station in Marseille, in the south of France, by a person who made comments about her religious dress, PA news agency reports.

A second hate attack took place when a teacher from a Jewish religious school was stabbed by a group who shouted anti-Semitic slurs and comments "glorifying terrorism". 

French media reported the gang of three men claimed to support the so-called Islamic State and the man was stabbed in the leg.

British schools have been advised against any upcoming trips to France, in line with advice given by the French authorities after Friday's attacks.

“As part of the national state of emergency, the French ministry of education has cancelled all school trips within France by French schools until [after] Sunday,” the UK Foreign Office said.

“This includes excursions to cultural sites [theatres, museums, etc] and travel by school groups on public transport." 

The headteacher of a school in Grimsby, Lincolnshire said he was cancelling two trips to France even though he felt that doing so was “giving in to terrorism”.  

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French police officers are now allowed to carry their weapons while off-duty following a request from police unions, Le Monde is reporting, external. The rules will apply as long as the state of emergency is in place. 

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius says that if the investigation shows suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud was able to travel to France from Syria, this "exposes flaws within [the] EU system".

Speaking on French radio he added that other EU members now feared attacks, and this might speed up adoption of measures such as the EU Passenger Name Record, external (PNR) which would see countries share airline passenger data.

More than 130 world leaders have agreed to attend the opening day of the COP21 international climate summit in Paris next month.

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The lower house of the French parliament will consider a bill later that would extend the state of emergency for a further three months. 

Other proposals include allowing anyone deemed a public threat to be placed under house arrest and allowing police searches without court approval if the public is thought to be in danger. 

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A projection of the Eiffel Tower is displayed on the side of New York City's Flatiron building as a sign of solidarity with France.

A plane en route from the Polish capital Warsaw to the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada has made an emergency landing in eastern Bulgaria because of a bomb threat. 

The plane landed at Burgas airport after a passenger in his sixties apparently said there were explosives on board. The 161 passengers on board left the plane while it was searched, AFP reports.

A police spokeswoman said the passenger later admitted on questioning to having consumed alcohol, Reuters reports.

Airport security has been stepped up since a Russian airliner was brought down, apparently by a bomb, last month with the loss of 224 lives.

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has spoken of an "opening" in the Russian position towards fighting so-called Islamic State.

Russian warplanes have been bombarding targets in Syria - but have been accused of focusing on non-IS rebels.

"We think [Russia] is sincere and we have to muster all our forces [against IS]", Mr Fabius told French radio station France Inter.

At this point we resume our live coverage of events in Paris.

Police say the suspected ringleader, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was not among the eight people arrested in a raid on a flat on Wednesday morning. However, they have not yet identified at least two people killed at the flat, in the northern suburb of Saint Denis.

Full details of yesterday's developments can be found in our main story.

We are now taking a break in our live coverage of events following the dramatic raid in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, as the investigation into Friday's deadly attacks continues. Thank you for following today's live coverage.

We will resume our coverage early on Thursday.

President Obama has said he will veto legislation proposed by two Republican congressmen which would introduce new requirements for potential Syrian refugees .

The "American SAFE Act 2015" would "create significant delays and obstacles in the fulfillment of a vital program that satisfies both humanitarian and national security objectives", said the White House in a statement.

Current screening processes for Syrian refugees include multiple federal intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies.

A poll of UK voters carried out for the Daily Mail newspaper says that 50% of those asked would support British troops being involved in a ground war against IS, with 31% saying they are opposed.

Support rises to 59% if military action were undertaken alongside other countries such as the USA and France, and 68% if it were the UN sending troops. Support for air strikes stands at 60% (as against 24% who oppose them).

More three quarters of Britons (78%) say they are worried about a terrorist attack happening in Britain, including more than a third (35%) who say they are "very worried".

The victims of Friday's attacks were of 19 nationalities, according to French authorities. On Wednesday hundreds attended a candlelit vigil in Venice's St Mark's Square to remember Italian victim Valeria Solesin. The 28-year-old died at the Bataclan theatre.

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The US has offered a $5m (£3.2m) reward for information leading to the location or identification of an IS leader going by the name of Abu Muhammed al-Shimali.

According to officials from the State Department, Shimali has allowed for travel from Turkey to Syria of potential IS fighters from Australia, Europe and the Middle East.