Paris Attack
A wave of coordinated attacks left more than 175 dead in scenes of carnage in Paris Friday, including scores massacred by attackers during a rock concert
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Messages are seen at a candle light vigil in St. Louis, Missouri one day after the terrorist attacks in Paris -
UK Muslims
03:00 GMT - The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has planned a series of conferences around the country where community leaders, activists and others will speak out against jihadist ideology, but also government security measures they say alienate Muslims.
"We do know that for any policy to succeed it needs to involve Muslim communities as part of the solution and not only as part of the problem," said MCB secretary general Shuja Shafi at the first of a series of conferences in London this week.
The initiative comes as concerns mount over the number of Britons heeding calls by the Islamic State (IS) group and other extremists to launch attacks domestically or fight abroad.
IS has claimed responsibility for a string of outrages, including the attacks in Paris Friday that left 129 dead and more than 350 wounded. -
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A man offers a prayer in memory of victims of the Paris attacks in front of the French embassy in Tokyo -
Elysee Palace
03:28 GMT - AFP reporter Stephane Jourdain says that the area around the Elysee Palace in Paris is completely closed off, with taxis forced to take detours. Armed guards patrol the perimeter in the early hours of the morning. -
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People light candles at a pop-up memorial to the victims of Paris' attacks at the Republic Square in Le Mans, western France -
Attacker identified
03:42 GMT - Police have identified one of the gunmen who blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall as 29-year-old Paris native Omar Ismail Mostefai.
His father and 34-year-old brother have been taken into custody by police and a source close to the probe said investigators are now searching the homes of other friends and relatives of the killer.
Mostefai, whose identity was confirmed using a severed fingertip, was known as being close to radical Islam, but had never been linked to terrorism. -
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Police patrol in Paris at the Eiffel Tower, which has been closed to the public following a series of coordinated attacks in and around Paris -
Empty streets
04:13 GMT - The usually lively streets of Paris were nearly empty Saturday night, with cafes closed and hot spots like the bustling Pigalle eerily quiet.
An AFP journalist spoke to a taxi driver who described the atmosphere.
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Mostefai
04:32 GMT - Identified by his severed finger, which was found among the rubble of the Bataclan concert hall, Omar Ismail Mostefai is the first gunman to be named from Friday's attacks in Paris.
The 29-year-old was one of three men who blew himself up following the bloodiest scene of the carnage, in which at least 89 people were killed.
Born on November 21 1985, in the poor Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, Omar Mostefai's criminal record shows eight convictions for petty crimes between 2004 and 2010, but no jail time.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Mostefai had been singled out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in 2010 but, before Friday, he had "never been implicated in an investigation or a terrorist association". -
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People walk past street placards reading "I am Paris" at the Darsena canal in Milan on Saturday -
BMW Masters
05:07 GMT - Europe's top golfers halted their final rounds in the BMW Masters in Shanghai Sunday to observe a minute's silence in tribute to the victims of the Paris attacks.
As airhorns sounded to mark noon, all 78 players, caddies, officials and thousands of Chinese spectators at the flagship European Tour event stood in silence to honour the memory of the victims of Friday's attacks. -
Mostefai brother
05:21 GMT - Omar Ismail Mostefai's brother, one of four boys in the family along with two sisters, turned himself in to police after learning his younger sibling was involved in the attacks.
"It's a crazy thing, it's madness," he told AFP, his voice trembling, before being taken into custody.
The last he knew, Mostefai had gone to Algeria with his family and his "little girl," he said, adding: "It's been a time since I have had any news."
"I called my mother, she didn't seem to know anything," he said Saturday. -
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Marion Bertranet (C) and Anais Gazeau (L) mourn during a vigil in San Francisco, California one day after the Paris attacks -
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05:51 GMT - British heavy metal group Motorhead announces cancellation of Paris gig scheduled for Sunday.
Due to the serious situation in Paris we have to postpone our gig until January. We are rescheduling and will give details ASAP. #Paris
— Official Motörhead (@myMotorhead) November 15, 2015
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French national Michelle Judd and her daughter Miuccia, 9, hold one another next to a makeshift memorial outside the French Consulate in Los Angeles, California -
G20
06:13 GMT - US President Barack Obama has landed in Turkey for the G20 summit where he is expected to discuss terrorism with leaders from the world's 20 most powerful economies.
French President Francois Hollande cancelled his visit to Turkey after Friday's attacks. Hollande will be represented by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Finance Minister Michel Sapin. -
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A man reads a newspaper with photos headlines of the Paris attacks in Manila -
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Benjamin Herbert of France wears a cap with reading 'pray for Paris', to commemorate the victims of the Paris attacks during the BMW Shanghai Masters golf tournament -
#BREAKING Six family members of named Paris attacker arrested: judicial source — Agence France-Presse (@AFP) November 15, 2015
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Car found
08:20 GMT - A black Seat car used by gunmen who fired at people in restaurants during the attacks in Paris has been found in the eastern suburb of Montreuil, police say.
Six people close to Omar Ismail Mostefai, who took part in the killings at the Bataclan concert hall and the first of Friday's attackers to be identified, have been detained, including his father, brother and sister-in-law, judicial and police sources say. -
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A small poster in the French capital reads "Paris is standing"
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