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1:05 p.m. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says security agencies made the right decision to cancel the soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands due to attack fears. The Tuesday night friendly match in Hannover was called off 90 minutes before the kickoff after German authorities received mounting information about a possible attack on the stadium.
Merkel and several members of her Cabinet had been due to attend the match to demonstrate that Germany wouldn't bow to terror following the deadly attacks in Paris. Merkel said Wednesday "I was just as sad as millions of fans that this cancellation had to happen, but the security agencies took a responsible decision."
She said "these are difficult decisions, possibly the most difficult decisions between freedom and security. But yesterday it was taken in favor of security, and that's right."
12:50 p.m.
A father's heartwarming explanation to his son about the Paris terror attacks is electrifying social media, with more than 27 million views on Facebook alone.
The video shows an interview conducted by a reporter for France's Le Petit Journal in a Paris square where people are laying flowers and lighting candles to honor the 129 victims killed in the attacks.
The child tells the reporter the attacks were conducted by "bad guys" who were "not very nice." He then expresses fear that his family will be forced to move, although his father reassures him they won't because there are "bad guys everywhere."
With his arm around his son, the father refers to the crowd at the square, and says, "It's OK. They might have guns, but we have flowers."
12:45 p.m.
The French government says all 129 people killed in attacks Friday on a Paris stadium, a concert hall and cafes have been identified.
A statement released after Wednesday's Cabinet meeting says about 100 families have come to see the bodies.
At least 350 people were also wounded in the Paris attacks, with scores of people still critically injured. The death toll may still rise if some of the wounded do not recover.
12:30 p.m.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says authorities are working to determine the fate of the suspected mastermind of last week's Paris attacks after a seven-hour police raid on an apartment where he was believed to be hiding.
Francois Molins says the police began the raid Wednesday after gathering information that suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud could be in a safe house apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
Molins said the information was collected from tapped telephone conversations, surveillance and witness accounts.
He told reporters in Saint-Denis after the operation was over that authorities are still working to determine who was inside. Seven people were arrested and two suspects were killed.
12:05 p.m.
A White House official says President Barack Obama has been briefed on the law enforcement operation in a suburb of Paris. This is a French law enforcement operation, but the president asked to be updated, the official said.
Obama is in Manila for an economic summit. The official was not authorized to discuss the briefing further.
A French government spokesman says a seven-hour police operation north of Paris targeting the mastermind of the deadly Paris attacks and his accomplices, has ended. He says two people were killed in the operation and seven arrested.
— Kathleen Hennessey in Manila.
noon
Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have detained eight people at Istanbul's main airport who they suspect could be Islamic State militants planning to make their way to Germany, posing as refugees.
The Anadolu Agency said Wednesday the eight arrived in Istanbul from Casablanca, Morocco, and were interviewed by criminal profiling teams at Ataturk Airport. Citing police sources, the agency said one of the suspects had a hand-drawn picture of a planned route from Turkey to Germany, via Greece, Serbia and Hungary.
Anadolu said the eight claimed to be tourists visiting Istanbul but a hotel refuted claims they had reservations there.
11:50 a.m.
French government spokesman Stephane Le Foll says a seven-hour police operation north of Paris targeting the mastermind of the Paris attacks and his accomplices, has ended.
Le Foll spoke to reporters in the presidential palace after a Cabinet meeting, saying "the operation is over."
Police say two people were killed in the operation Wednesday including a female suicide bomber. Several police were injured and seven people were arrested.
The fate of the suspected mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is unclear.
11:40 a.m.
Police say a police dog was killed in the siege of an apartment where some of the Paris attackers are thought to be holed up.
The National Police said in a tweet that a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois named Diesel, a SWAT team assault dog, was "killed by terrorists" during the raid in Saint-Denis, north of Paris.
Police say two suspects have died in the ongoing assault, one of them a female suicide bomber. Seven people have been arrested in the apartment building. Several police officers were slightly injured.
The raid is targeting perpetrators of Friday's deadly gun-and-bomb attacks in Paris that killed 129 people.
11:30 a.m.
Police have escorted out children and others from the scene of a big police standoff with suspects in last week's Paris attacks.
A woman in a purple headscarf wept while carrying a child. A man next to her carried another child wearing pink, and an older boy walked near them.
It is unclear whether they had been in the building where two people have been killed, several police slightly injured and seven people arrested since the standoff began seven hours ago.
11:20 a.m.
Armed security officers have fanned out around the historic Paris suburb of Saint-Denis during an hours-long standoff with police.
Journalists, cameramen, police and curious residents waited nervously in the central Place Victor Hugo, as sirens echoed around the neighborhood.
It contrasted with the serenity of the Saint-Denis Basilica — one of the world's most majestic gothic churches — that towers over the area. Its famed stone tower was lit up beautifully in the unusually sunny November morning.
11:15 a.m.
Officials say seven people have been arrested in a raid on an apartment building where suspects in last week's Paris attacks were holed up.
A senior police official and the Paris prosecutor's office say that the seven were arrested Wednesday in the building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
They did not identify those detained.
Authorities believe there may still be someone still hiding in an apartment.
A loud bang rang out in the streets adjacent to the building around the time of the latest arrests.
11 a.m.
The governor of Lower Saxony is reassuring Germans after the cancellation of a soccer game over terrorism concerns that "the security situation is stable" in the northern state.
Stephan Weil said Wednesday he knew people were worried, but asked "all to trust in the security authorities."
State Interior Minister Boris Pistorius said Tuesday night's Germany vs Netherlands match in Hannover was nixed at short notice after "vague" information that solidified late in the day.
He wouldn't give details, saying the "more concrete information we give the more likely it is to reveal the source."
He says it's possible no arrests were made and no explosives were found because the plot was called off after the game was canceled.
Pistorius says "we won't know what would have happened if we didn't cancel it."
10:40 a.m.
A bill to extend France's state of emergency for three months is being presented to a Cabinet meeting.
French president Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency for 12 days following Friday night's attacks. Parliament must approve extending it.
The bill is to be debated in the Cabinet on Wednesday, the lower house on Thursday and at the Senate on Friday.
The state of emergency extends some police powers of search and arrest and limits public gatherings, among other changes.
10:25 a.m.
Austria's interior ministry says a Belgian suspect sought in the Paris attacks was on an EU-wide police list when he was stopped in Austria in September, and his presence in the country was reported back to Belgian authorities.
Ministry official Karl-Heinz Gruendboeck says Belgium had registered Salah Abdeslam in the Schengen Information System on suspicion of unidentified criminal activity.
He said Wednesday Austrian police reported his presence to Belgian police.
Officials earlier said Abdeslam entered Austria from Germany Sept. 9 with two unidentified companions and they were stopped for a routine traffic check. They said they were planning a vacation in Vienna,
Abdeslam, 26, is the suspected driver of a group of gunmen in the Paris attacks. His brother, Brahim, was among the suicide bombers and killed one civilian after blowing himself up outside a restaurant.
10:10 a.m.
French President Francois Hollande is holding an emergency meeting at the Elysee Palace to monitor the raid on a suburban Paris apartment.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Justice Minister Christiane Taubira are meeting with the president.
A Cabinet meeting is to be held on Wednesday morning as previously scheduled, according to the French presidency.
9:30 a.m.
A police official says that one person is still holed up in an apartment north of Paris after an hours-long standoff with police in which two have been killed and five arrested.
The official, not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules, said the standoff is still going on after some five hours.
The person's identity has not been released. Authorities say the operation is targeting the mastermind of last week's Paris attacks that killed at least 129 people.
— By Philippe Sotto
9:20 a.m.
Denmark's National Police say it has raised its internal alert level, adding the Scandinavian country's intelligence agency's overall terror threat assessment has not been changed and remains "serious."
Police says the reason for stepping up the alertness to "significant elevated preparedness" is "a result of the current uncertain situation in several European countries."
In Wednesday's statement, the police said the change is only internal, and citizens will not notice any changes.
In February, a lone gunman attacked a free speech event and a synagogue that left two people dead and wounded five in Copenhagen. The shooter Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein was killed in a shootout with a SWAT team.
9 a.m.
The Paris prosecutor's office says that SWAT teams have arrested three people in an apartment where police are in a standoff with suspects in last week's Paris attacks.
In a statement, the prosecutor's office says that the three haven't been identified yet.
Another man and woman were detained near the apartment, the statement says. It says the standoff is ongoing.
Two people have been killed in the standoff, including a woman suicide bomber who blew herself up, the prosecutor said.
8:40 a.m.
A French police official says a woman wearing an explosive suicide vest has blown herself up in a standoff between police and suspects in last week's Paris attacks.
The official said she is among two people killed in the ongoing standoff in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. The official, not authorized to be publicly named because of police rules, said four police officers have been injured. No hostages are being held.
Police have said the operation Wednesday is targeting the suspected orchestrator of last week's attacks, holed up in an apartment in Saint-Denis with other armed people.
—By Jamey Keaten
8:20 a.m.
Police say two suspects in last week's Paris attacks — a man and a woman — have been killed in a police operation north of the capital.
An official with the Paris police department who was not authorized to be publicly named said two people have been detained, and two police officers injured in the standoff Wednesday in Saint-Denis.
Police have said the operation is targeting the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks, believed to be holed up in an apartment in Saint-Denis with several other heavily armed suspects.
— By Jamey Keaten
7:55 a.m.
A senior French police official says a large police operation north of Paris is targeting the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
The official says authorities believe Abaaoud is holed up in an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, along with up to five other heavily armed people.
The official, who was not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules but is informed routinely about the operation, says that scores of police who stormed the building early Wednesday were met with unexpectedly violent resistance. Reinforcements were summoned and several people were injured.
7:45 a.m.
Authorities in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis have evacuated about 20 residents from a building where suspects linked to the Paris attacks are holed up in a standoff with police.
A city official not authorized to be publicly named told The Associated Press the residents were brought to city hall for protection. City hall is about 200 meters (yards) from the apartment building where the standoff is taking place on rue du Cornillon, in the heart of the historic, multicultural town just north of Paris.
The site is less than 2 kilometers (about a mile) from the Stade de France national stadium. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday near the stadium during an international soccer match with French President Francois Hollande in attendance.
Saint-Denis is one of France's most historic places. French kings were crowned and buried through the centuries in its famed basilica. Today it is home to a vibrant and very ethnically diverse population and sees sporadic tension between police and violent youths.
7:35 a.m.
At least seven explosions have been heard at the scene of a police standoff with suspects in last week's deadly Paris attacks.
Associated Press reporters at the scene could hear what sounded like grenade blasts from the direction of the standoff in the heart of the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
The source of the blasts is unclear. Police say several people are holed up in an apartment and several police have been injured in an operation that has lasted at least three hours on Wednesday morning.
7:20 a.m.
A resident of the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis describes intense gunfire and explosions during a police operation near the site of one of last week's deadly attacks.
Baptiste Marie, a 26-year-old independent journalist who lives near the scene of the standoff, tells The Associated Press: "It started with an explosion. Then there was second big explosion. Then two more explosions. There was an hour of gunfire."
Resident Amine Guizani, 21, says: "There were grenades. It was going, stopping. Kalashnikovs. Starting again."
Riot police were clearing the streets early Wednesday, pointing guns at curious residents to move them off the roads.
Marie said the officers seemed nervous.
"You could see it in their eyes, " Marie said.
6:55 a.m.
Police say anti-terrorist officers are raiding an apartment in a north Paris suburb where several men are holed up.
The Paris police department says officers have exchanged gunfire with the suspects and several police have been injured. The extent of their injuries is unknown.
It's unclear whether there are injuries among the suspects.
Police reinforcements are arriving at the scene in Saint-Denis.
6:27 a.m.
Police vans and fire trucks are rushing to the scene of a SWAT team operation in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis that is linked to the deadly Paris attacks.
A helicopter is flying overhead at dawn Wednesday.
French television BFM and i-Tele say that the suspects are inside an apartment building.
Police have cordoned off the area nearby, including a pedestrian zone lined with shops and 19th-century apartment buildings.
Neighborhood resident Fabien Crombe said on BFM television that gunshots have repeatedly broken out since the police operation began, punctuated by silence and the sound of sirens.
Saint-Denis Mayor Didier Paillard said transport has been stopped and schools in the center of town will not open Wednesday.
6:15 a.m.
Authorities in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis are telling residents to stay inside during a large police operation near France's national stadium that two officials say is linked to last week's deadly attacks.
Deputy Mayor Stephane Peu told i-Tele television that there have been many gun shots and detonations in the operation that began at 4:25 a.m. (0325 GMT) Wednesday on rue de la Republique in the center of Saint-Denis.
The site is less than two kilometers (1.2 miles) from the Stade de France, targeted by three suicide bombers during Friday's attacks.
He urged residents to stay home, saying "it is not a new attack but a police intervention."

Sentiment was also fragile in Europe as Paris police carried out a major raid on a suburban apartment linked to the recent terror attacks. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, France's CAC-40 lost 0.7 percent to 4,905.28 and Germany's DAX shed 0.4 percent to 10,929.41. Britain's FTSE 100 edged down 0.1 percent to 6,263.06. On Tuesday, the indices had risen strongly.
Wall Street looked set for small gains, with futures for the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index up 0.2 percent. FED WATCH: Investors will pore over the minutes to the last Fed meeting, to be released later in the day, for signs that the central bank will raise interest rates next month for the first time in almost a decade. Higher rates tend to weigh on stock markets, but investors have mostly become prepared for the Fed to act in December. "The minutes should reveal that the Fed has come close to 'lift-off'" said analysts at UniCredit bank.
TERRORISM JITTERS: Investors restored calm in European markets this week following the Paris attacks that left 129 people dead on Friday. Travel and tourism stocks suffered temporarily but markets were unexpectedly resilient. News of another police raid in Paris that resulted in two dead and seven arrests kept investors on edge.
CHINESE OUTLOOK: Earlier, Chinese President Xi Jinping sought to reassure economic and political leaders that his government will keep the world's No. 2 economy growing. In a speech to a business conference on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Xi said China is committed to overhauling its economy and raising the living standards of its people. Concerns about a slowdown in the Chinese economy have weighed on global markets this year.
ASIA'S DAY: Tokyo's Nikkei 225 gained 0.1 percent to 19,649.18 and the Shanghai Composite Index fell 1 percent to 3,568.47. Sydney's S&P ASX/200 advanced 0.3 percent to 5,133.10 and Seoul's Kospi was unchanged at 1,962.88. Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 0.3 percent to 22,188.26.
ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude gained 53 cents to $41.22 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract plunged $1.07 on Tuesday to close at $40.67. CURRENCY: The dollar declined to 123.39 yen from Tuesday's 123.4090 yen. The euro rose to $1.0671 from $1.0645.

The dead were a woman who blew herself up with an explosive vest and a man hit by projectiles and grenades at the end of the raid, which began before dawn and continued for more than seven hours at the apartment building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the raid was launched after information from tapped telephone conversations, surveillance and witness accounts indicated that the suspected attacks planner, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, might be in a safe house in the district.
Authorities could not immediately confirm whether Abaaoud, a Belgian Islamic State militant, was killed or arrested Wednesday morning. Abaaoud was believed to be in Syria after a January police raid in Belgium, but bragged in Islamic State propaganda of his ability to move back and forth between Europe and Syria undetected.
Speaking at the scene of Wednesday's raid, Molins said the operation began with a pre-dawn shootout and resulted in the capture of three people inside the apartment, the death of a woman who set off an explosive charge, and the death of "another terrorist who was found at the end of the operation who was hit by projectiles and grenades."
He said two other people were detained while trying to hide in the rubble, and two others were arrested, including the man who had provided the apartment and one of his acquaintances. Police at the scene were seen escorting away one man naked from the waist down and another wrapped in a gold emergency blanked.
"As things stand, it is impossible to give you the identities of the people detained, which are being verified," he said. Molins and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve did not specify whether any suspects might still be at large.
A police official not authorized to be publicly named because of police rules said four police officers were injured. French President Francois Hollande held an emergency meeting with senior ministers at the Elysee Palace to monitor the raid.
Residents said an explosion shook the neighborhood shortly after 4 a.m. "We guessed it was linked to Friday night," said Yves Steux, barman at L'Escargot restaurant 250 meters (yards) from the assault."My wife panicked and was scared and told me not to leave, but I ignored her. Life goes on."
Baptiste Marie, a 26-year-old independent journalist who lives in the neighborhood, said a second large explosion was followed by "two more explosions. There was an hour of gunfire." Another witness, Amine Guizani, said he heard the sound of grenades and automatic gunfire.
"It was continuous. It didn't stop," he said. "It lasted from 4:20 until 5:30. It was a good hour. I couldn't say how many shots were fired, but it was probably 500. Hundreds, definitely. There were maybe 10 explosions."
Sporadic bangs and explosions continued, and at 7:30 a.m. at least seven explosions shook the center of Saint-Denis. Associated Press reporters at the scene could hear what sounded like grenade blasts from the direction of the standoff.
Investigators have identified 27-year-old Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, as the chief architect of Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people and injured 350 others. A U.S. official briefed on intelligence matters said Abaaoud was a key figure in an Islamic State external operations cell that U.S. intelligence agencies have been tracking for many months.
Police vans and fire trucks rushed to the scene north of Paris, less than two kilometers (just over a mile) from the Stade de France stadium. Three suicide bombers blew themselves up Friday near the stadium during an international soccer match with French President Francois Hollande in attendance.
In Saint-Denis on Wednesday, police cordoned off the area nearby, including a pedestrian zone lined with shops and 19th-century apartment buildings. Riot police cleared people from the streets, pointing guns at curious residents to move them off the roads.
Saint-Denis is one of France's most historic places. French kings were crowned and buried through the centuries in its famed basilica, a majestic Gothic church that towers over the area. Today the district is home to a vibrant and ethnically diverse population and sees sporadic tension between police and violent youths.
Saint-Denis Mayor Didier Paillard said public transport was suspended and that schools in the center of town would not open Wednesday. Seven attackers died in Friday's attacks, which targeted several bars and restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall, as well as the national stadium. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the carnage.
Police had said before the raids that they were hunting for two fugitives suspected of taking part as well as any accomplices. That would bring the number of attackers to at least nine. French authorities had previously said that at least eight people were directly involved in the bloodshed: seven who died in the attacks and one who got away and slipped across the border to Belgium.
However, there have been gaps in officials' public statements, which have never fully disclosed how many attackers took part in the deadly rampage. On Tuesday, officials told The Associated Press they now believe at least one other attacker was involved and they were working to identify and track down that suspect. Three officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the ongoing investigation.
Surveillance video obtained by the AP also indicated that a team of three attackers carried out the shootings at one of the cafes. The video was among evidence authorities used in concluding that at least one other attacker was at large, the French officials indicated.
The brief clip shows two black-clad gunmen with automatic weapons calmly firing on the bar then returning toward a waiting car, whose driver was maneuvering behind them. Authorities believe the car is the same black SEAT-make vehicle that was found Saturday with three Kalashnikovs inside.
Police have identified one subject of their manhunt as Salah Abdeslam, whom French police accidentally permitted to cross into Belgium on Saturday. One of his brothers, Brahim, blew himself up in Paris.
Meanwhile, French fighter jets attacked Islamic State targets in Syria for a third night. The French defense ministry said 10 jets had hit two Islamic State command centers in the militants' base of Raqqa, Syria.
The Paris attacks have galvanized international determination to confront the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, bringing France, Russia and the United States closer to an alliance. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the missile cruiser Moskva, currently in the Mediterranean, to start cooperating with the French military on operations in Syria.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a cease-fire between Syria's government and the opposition could be just weeks away. He described it as potentially a "gigantic step" toward deeper international cooperation against IS.
France — and the rest of Europe — remain on edge four days after the attacks. Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. were diverted Tuesday night — one to Salt Lake City and one to Halifax — because of anonymous threats received after they had taken off. Both were inspected and cleared to resume their journeys.
In the German city of Hannover, a soccer game between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled at the last minute and the stadium evacuated by police because of a bomb threat. Lower Saxony state Interior Minister Boris Pistorius said the match was called off after "vague" information that solidified late in the day.
No arrests have been made and no explosives found. Pistorius said this may be because the plot was called off after the game was canceled. "We won't know what would have happened if we didn't cancel it," he said.
Keaten reported from Paris. Associated Press writers Thomas Adamson in Saint-Denis, Philippe Sotto, Sylvie Corbet, Lori Hinnant, Angela Charlton and Jill Lawless in Paris and David Rising in Berlin also contributed.

November 16, 2015 8:30 p.m. A hoteliers' union says reservations at Paris' top hotels have fallen by 50 percent in the wake of the attacks that rocked the French capital. Charlotte Le Moniet, a spokeswoman for France's hoteliers' union, said Monday that reservations had been canceled across the board after the attacks, which rattled tourists before the busy Christmas season.
"The same thing happened after Charlie Hebdo," she said, referring to the attack on the satirical weekly in January, saying it took a month or two for reservations to return to normal. Le Moniet, whose union also represents restaurants and cafes, said its members would weather the blow.
7:55 p.m.
The proprietors of Paris' Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died on Friday, say no words can express their sorrow.
They said in a statement on Twitter that the authorities were still carrying out work in the building and they didn't know when the venue would be able to reopen.
They said their thoughts were with the victims, the injured and their loved ones and thanked people for their support, "which has touched us deeply."
Gunmen stormed the longstanding rock venue in Paris' 11th arrondissement Friday during a concert by American band Eagles of Death Metal, firing on the crowd and killing dozens.
The area around the theater is now heaped with flowers, cards and tributes to the dead.
7:45 p.m.
Offering condolences and prayers, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama says the nation must continue to keep the victims and families of the Paris attacks in their thoughts and hearts.
The first lady echoed the words of the president, saying the attack was not just on France, a "dear friend and ally, but on all humanity and our shared values."
Mrs. Obama made the remarks as she welcomed more than 40 students Monday to the White House for arts and theater workshops. She said the young people are a reflection of those values, including their passion and creativity.
7:35 p.m.
American basketball player Shawn James has not traveled with his Spanish club to play a game in France because of security concerns following the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Club Dominion Bilbao Basket said Monday that James and his family were worried about his safety and the center decided not to make the trip for Tuesday's game in Nanterre, west of Paris.
Coach Sito Alonso said the club respected James' decision and was not in a position to oblige the player to travel along with the rest of his teammates.
Club officials said they tried to postpone the game because of safety concerns but their request was denied by Eurocup officials.
The 32-year-old James was one of the Duquesne players targeted in the 2006 shootings at the university's campus. He previously played in Israel.
7:30 p.m.
France's U.N. ambassador says he is working on the timing of a U.N. Security Council meeting and the content of a resolution on the fight against terrorism.
Francois Delattre told reporters he was following up on French President Francois Hollande's announcement that France would urge the U.N.'s most powerful body to take action following the Paris attacks.
A council resolution adopted immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States demanded that all 193 U.N. member states adopt national laws to combat terrorism.
The council has also adopted resolutions against the recruitment and financing of foreign fighters supporting "terrorist groups."
The council on Friday condemned "the barbaric and cowardly terrorist attacks" in Paris in the strongest terms and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
7:15 p.m.
British tennis player Andy Murray says the Paris attacks are a "terrible, terrible tragedy" and he thinks the best course of action is to "live our normal lives."
Murray won his opening match at the season-ending ATP finals on Monday. He was asked about the attacks in Paris after the match.
He says "all of sport really has shown that it's a terrible, terrible tragedy. Obviously everyone was very upset by it. But it's not something I would say I know enough about to really give a fair comment on."
After the ATP tournament, Murray will play for Britain in the Davis Cup final against Belgium from Nov. 27-29 in Gent.
Murray says he is not afraid to go to Belgium despite the links of the Paris attacks to Brussels.
He says "I think everybody right now is concerned about things. But I do think the best thing that we can do is to live our normal lives, not change too much, because then the terrorists are the ones that are winning."
7:10 p.m.
The Eiffel Tower, which dimmed its lights in mourning following Friday's attacks in Paris, has been relit in blue, white and red.
The 116-year-old international symbol of Paris will remain lit up in the colors of the French flag for three nights. Monuments around the world have done the same in recent days in a show of sympathy with Paris, including the Sydney Opera House, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue.
After the relighting, Paris' motto "Fluctuat nec mergitur" or "Tossed but not sunk." was to be projected onto the 300-meter (986-foot) monument visible across the French capital.
The tower reopened to visitors Monday afternoon.
7 p.m.
The army says it is stepping up security to increase protection of some military sites and installations in the Czech capital, Prague, following the terror attacks in Paris.
The general staff says in a statement Monday soldiers will be deployed outside the sites that have not been identified and in the surrounding public areas.
Authorities increased security at the country's international airports, major shopping centers, the French embassy and other sites shortly after the attacks.
6:50 p.m.
The captain of France's national soccer team says the players had some concerns about playing England in a friendly match, four days after the Paris attacks, but were told they had to by the president of the football federation.
"Like all my teammates, we respect this decision and it will be a good opportunity to represent the national team," Hugo Lloris said at Wembley Stadium, where the game will take place on Tuesday. "The French nation is more important than French football team."
Lloris says the members of the France squad have been holed up at the team's training base in Clairefontaine and unable to see their families since the attacks on Friday that killed 129 people.
"Of course we are human. We would have liked to spend time with our nearest and dearest " Lloris said. "But we have not been cut off from the world. We have kept up to date with what's happening through the Internet."
Lloris says "tomorrow will be a great moment of solidarity — the last three days have been dramatic and I think we were in mourning all together."
6:35 p.m.
Kensington Palace officials have announced that Prince William will attend Tuesday's friendly match in London between England and France amid heightened security following the Paris attacks.
London Mayor Boris Johnson also plans to attend.
Police have announced extra security will be in place for the game at Wembley Stadium. A similar friendly match between Germany and France was the subject of an attack in Paris Friday night when suicide bombs were set off near the stadium.
London police said in a statement Monday that security plans have been reviewed "in light of the tragic events in Paris."
It said that "extra, highly-visible armed officers" will be patrolling around Wembley Stadium.
The statement said the plans are precautionary and not the result of any specific threats.
6:20 p.m.
The Islamic State group has released a video showing one its fighters in Iraq vowing to attack Washington the way Paris was attacked last week.
The nearly 12-minute video shows unidentified fighters praising Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people, and calling on Muslims in France to "ignite and kill soldiers and tyrants."
One fighter says Muslims should strike in the West because the U.S.-led coalition is targeting IS in Iraq.
Another fighter warned nations that are taking part in the "Crusaders' campaign," saying that as "we struck France on its ground in Paris we will strike America on its ground in Washington."
6:15 p.m.
One of the three brothers who have been linked to the Paris attacks has said upon his release from detention in Brussels that he and his family "are moved by what happened" in Paris and "could never have believed that one of our brothers was involved."
After his weekend detention, Mohamed Abdeslam was released Monday and spoke to reporters about his brother Brahim who died during a suicide attack Friday and his other brother Salah who is a fugitive.
"We don't know where he is at the moment," he said of Salah. "We don't know, because of the current tensions, if he will dare to turn himself in to the justice," Mohamed told reporters.
He said that because of the events "my parents are in shock and don't realize what happened."
6:05 p.m.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the 28-nation political and military alliance will work even more closely with other countries "to fight extremism and terrorism."
Without announcing any new concrete actions, he said Monday that "we must stand vigilant, determined and united."
Stoltenberg spoke during the annual conference of the European Defense Agency in Brussels. Earlier in the day, employees at NATO headquarters honored the victims of last Friday's terror attacks in Paris with a minute's silence.
5:50 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande wants the constitution changed so that the government can revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists born in France who have dual nationality.
Hollande said Monday in a rare joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles that "we must be able to revoke the French citizenship of a person convicted for threatening the nations' interest or for terrorist acts."
Under current French law, citizenship revocation can only be applied to people who have been naturalized, if they have dual nationality.
5:35 p.m.
Norwegian police say they have postponed a decision to go unarmed following the Paris attacks and will carry guns until next month.
Kaare Songstad, director of safety and security at the National Police Directorate, said Monday that following the carnage in Paris, "the most important thing we can do is obtain the best possible overview of the situation internationally and nationally" by cooperating with all the various police departments.
Norwegian police, who have traditionally patrolled streets unarmed, had been carrying weapons for about a year as a temporary measure after the country's security service raised the terror alert level. After the level was downgraded, police announced last week that there were no grounds to continue the temporary measure and would lay down their arms this week.
5:20 p.m.
Germany's Foreign Ministry says a second German citizen has been identified among those killed in Friday's Paris attacks.
The statement Monday provided no further details on the man's identity.
5:05 p.m.
A video released by the Islamic State group shows fighters praising last week's deadly attacks in Paris and urging Muslims to carry out similar acts.
A fighter who appears in the video released Monday, which was filmed in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, calls on Muslims all over the world, especially in France, to "intensify their attacks against Crusaders."
Another fighter says "we congratulate the oppressed Muslims worldwide for this sacred act that our brothers carried out against the enemies of religion."
The unidentified fighters say members of the U.S.-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State group "will not enjoy peace and security until Muslims live" safely.
IS claimed the attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people.
5 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande says the Paris attacks targeted "youth in all its diversity" and that the victims were of 19 different nationalities.
Speaking in a special joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles, Hollande said the attackers targeted "the France that likes life, culture, sports, parties."
Islamic State militants killed 129 people in Friday's attacks.
4:50 p.m.
The English Football Association says there will more security checks, a greater presence of armed police and a slower entrance procedure for Tuesday's soccer friendly match between England and France at London's Wembley Stadium, which is being played four days after the Paris attacks.
"The match tomorrow is going to have massive global significance," FA chief executive Martin Glenn said. "It's the first big event to happen since the tragedy of last Friday ... the eyes of the world will be on Wembley tomorrow, not just the eyes of the French and English people."
Glenn said it was important for the French and English teams to play and show solidarity, "to demonstrate that terrorism won't win."
England captain Wayne Rooney said he and his teammates had no concerns about playing the game.
"I think the world of football has to stay strong together," Rooney said. "I'm sure everyone will do that and try to deal with the situation to the best everyone knows how to do. I'm sure football will bring people together."
4:40 p.m.
France's president says a bill to extend the country's state of emergency for three months will be presented to parliament on Wednesday.
Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency following Friday night's attacks across the capital and at the Stade de France. Parliament must approve extending it.
The state of emergency extends some police powers of search and arrest and limits public gatherings, among other changes.
4:35 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande says he will meet with U.S. and Russian leaders to discuss pooling their efforts to destroy the Islamic State group.
Hollande, speaking at a special joint meeting of the upper and lower houses of parliament in the Palace of Versailles, said he had requested meetings with Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
Hollande said he wanted the talks "to unify our strength and achieve a result that has been too long in coming." Hollande called for "a union of all who can fight this terrorist army in a single coalition."
He didn't specify if he'd meet Obama and Putin together or separately.
4:30 p.m.
President Barack Obama says that the U.S. had no intelligence information ahead of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last week that would have given a clue that an attack was imminent.
Speaking at a news conference at the Group of 20 leading economies summit in Antalya, Turkey, Obama said that the U.S. is constantly sharing intelligence with European allies about the Islamic State group and other extremist threats, but had no useful information before the Paris attacks.
He said: "I am not aware of anything that was specific."
4:25 p.m.
In light of the Paris attacks, a key figure in Poland's Roman Catholic Church has expressed concern about security at next summer's meeting of youth with Pope Francis in Poland.
The archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, said Monday the church leaders are "worried because the events in Paris have shown that peace, security in Europe are threatened."
More than 2 million young Catholics from around the world are expected to take part in World Youth Day with the pope in Krakow July 25-31.
Dziwisz said he hopes that Europe and the U.S. have "enough strength" to jointly ensure security to make "Europe and Poland feel safe, and to allow Youth Day" and the Euro 2016 soccer championship in France to be held in "safety and peace, which Europe deserves."
4:15 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande is addressing parliament about France's response to the Paris attacks, in a rare speech to lawmakers gathered in the majestic congress room of the Palace of Versailles.
Hollande, in Monday's speech, is especially expected to evoke France's military operations in Syria and domestic security measures.
The last time a French president made a speech in front of both houses of Parliament in Versailles was in 2009, when Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the global financial crisis.
4:05 p.m.
Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini has observed a minute of silence in honor of the victims of the Paris attacks in a ceremony at the headquarters of European soccer's governing body.
Platini's legal team has told The Associated Press that the Frenchman was so affected by the string of attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people that "it was impossible for him not to attend" the ceremony on Monday in Nyon, Switzerland.
Platini's decision is a potential breach of the ban preventing him from entering UEFA's headquarters.
Platini has been suspended from all soccer activities for 90 days over a 2011 payment from FIFA.
UEFA said earlier that all teams playing in European internationals this week will wear black armbands, with a minute of silence held before kickoff in honor of those killed in Paris.
4 p.m.
The Eiffel Tower, which dimmed its lights in mourning following Friday's attacks in Paris, will be relit in red, white and blue.
The 116-year-old international symbol of Paris will light up in the colors of the French flag at 1800 GMT (1 p.m. EST) Monday. Monuments around the world have done the same in recent days in a show of sympathy with Paris, including the Sydney Opera House, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue.
After the relighting, Paris' motto "Fluctuat nec mergitur" or "Tossed but not sunk." will be projected onto the 300-meter (986-foot) monument visible across the French capital.
The tower reopened to visitors Monday afternoon.
3:50 p.m.
A Turkish security official says authorities have arrested more than half a dozen suspected Islamic State militants who had exchanged messages with the militants in Paris who conducted the deadly attacks across the city.
The official said that the militants were planning a similar attack in Istanbul.
The security official said Monday that the suspects included a man they believe is associated with Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John."
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the investigation.
— By Suzan Fraser
3:40 p.m.
Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says that five of the seven people who were detained over the weekend because of possible links to the Paris attacks have been released.
Two others have been changed with being part of a terror group and links to a terror attack, the office said in a statement.
The office also said that a major police operation in Molenbeek during much of Monday failed to yield any arrests related to the Paris attacks.
3:15 p.m.
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency says the United States has not underestimated the threat posed by the Islamic State group.
John Brennan said Monday the success by the United States and its coalition countries in containing the group's momentum inside Iraq and Syria is "why I think they are looking abroad" to make attacks.
Asked whether the U.S. had underestimated the threat, Brennan said, "I don't think we are underestimating the capability of ISIL," using an alternate name for the group.
He told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, that while it was "inevitable" that the Islamic State will try to carry out such attacks, "to me it is not inevitable that they are going to succeed."
2:50 p.m.
Czech authorities say they are planning to boost security in the capital on Tuesday, the anniversary of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution.
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka says the presence of extra force in the streets of Prague is meant as precaution.
Interior Minister Milan Chovanec says authorities have information some unspecified extremist group might misuse the national holiday but did not give any details.
Chovanec says: "We're ready to show that police is ready to protect the citizens."
Police also say in a statement they plan an increased presence also in other major cities across the country and that the decision is a reaction to the Paris attacks.
2:40 p.m.
German authorities are investigating claims that an Algerian man warned fellow migrants last week of an imminent attack in Paris.
A spokesman for prosecutors in Arnsberg says the unidentified 39-year-old was detained at a refugee shelter in the western German town, after two Syrian men contacted police Saturday.
Werner Wolff confirmed Monday a report by public broadcaster WDR that the man had told the Syrians that Paris would be subjected to "fear and terror."
2:35 p.m.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton says his department is operating as though attacks like those in Paris could happen in New York City.
Bratton said Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that his force has beefed up security and staffing, including at the French consulate, France's mission to the United Nations and Times Square.
Bratton says the Paris attackers' use of suicide vests is of particular concern, and officers are trying to learn more about the capability and types of arms used in the vests. He says New York police team will go to Paris this week.
2:20 p.m.
A local official says the massive police operation in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek has ended and that no one was injured.
Mayor Francoise Schepmans said Monday that the operation ended after more than three hours. It was unclear whether there was a major arrest during the operation which centered on a suspect in the Paris attacks.
Two small explosions were heard and dozens of masked and heavily armed security officials had sealed off the area and neighbors were told to stay out of harm's way.
Police arrested three suspects in the impoverished Brussels neighborhood on Saturday and continued house searches.
2:05 p.m.
Activists say French airstrikes on the northern Syrian city of Raqqa did not kill civilians and only hit military targets in the Islamic State group's de facto capital.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Monday the French targeted military facilities on the northern and southern edges of the city.
He says there are casualties among IS but did not provide numbers.
Sarmad al-Jilane, of the Raqqa-based collective called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said the city is tense, with few people venturing out even though markets are open.
France's Defense Ministry said 12 aircraft dropped a total of 20 bombs Sunday night in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September.
2 p.m.
The lawyer for Mohammad Abdeslam, one of the brothers of a dead suicide bomber in the Paris attacks, has been released after he had been detained over the weekend. Another brother, Salah Abdeslam, is the object of a massive manhunt.
Brahim Abdeslam died when he detonated his suicide vest on Friday.
Mohamed Abdeslam's lawyer, Nathalie Gallant, told the RTL network that her client "hadn't made the same life choices."
1:45 p.m.
A French police union is calling for the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, which authorities consider a focal point for extremists and fighters, to come under EU security control, saying the government has ceded the area to the Islamic State group.
The neighborhood, which police raided Monday in a sweep for the fugitive Frenchman suspected in the Paris attacks, was home to the Belgian Islamic State jihadi believed to be behind the attacks and two other thwarted attempts.
The France Police union said Belgium's national institutions failed and demanded "necessary measures to protect the Belgian and European populations from terrorism." The EU has no provisions for the demand, which appeared to be largely a sign of frustration with what some are calling a massive security failure.
1:40 p.m.
Police were standing guard outside the two major French elementary and high schools in Dublin, Ireland's capital, on Monday. Both schools asked parents to ensure that their children went straight inside to classrooms, not linger outside at the entrance or in playgrounds.
They also said parents seeking to enter the schools would have to identify themselves to security staff and give the reason for their visit.
"There is no particular concern in Ireland, but we must be vigilant," school directors said in a message to parents and the school's approximately 500 pupils, thanking them "for your understanding, your help and your solidarity."
1:30 p.m.
Two small explosions were heard during a major police action in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek amid a manhunt for a suspect in the Paris attacks. Dozens of masked and heavily armed security officials had sealed off the area and neighbors were told to stay out of harm's way.
Police refused to provide any details about who may have set off the explosions or the purpose for them.
Two hours into the siege a first explosion was heard and a similar followed it one hour later on a higher floor of a building with special security forces close by on roofs.
Police arrested three suspects in the impoverished Brussels neighborhood on Saturday and continued house searches. The special action began early Monday.
1:10 p.m.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron joined French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and other European leaders at a G-20 summit for a minute of silence in honor of the 129 victims Paris attacks.
Standing between the French and the European Union flags, the leaders stood in silence at 1100GMT Monday, at the same time as French President Francois Hollande observed a minute of silence to along with schoolchildren and bystanders in Paris.
Black ribbons were tied around the French and EU flags in a mark of mourning. The leaders were seen hugging Fabius at the end of ceremony.
G-20 leaders are meeting on the sidelines of the summit at the Turkish seaside resort of Antalya to discuss next steps in Syria and the Islamic State campaign
12:20 p.m.
A Russian official has revealed a possible plot ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, saying female suicide bombers had planned to smuggle explosives onto an aircraft in hand cream.
Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov, who has responsibility for counter-terrorism, said the women were detained in Austria and France.
The head of Russia's FSB security services said in July that many countries had helped to prevent an array of attacks at the Olympics — primarily Austria, France, Germany, Georgia and the U.S. — but no details were given.
The Sochi Games were held amid high concern that insurgents from nearby restive Caucasus republics including Chechnya were planning attacks.
Syromolotov, whose comments were carried by Russian news agencies, spoke Monday before the upper house of Russia's parliament.
12:05 p.m.
The French president, schoolchildren, bystanders have held a minute of silence to honor the 129 people killed in the country's worst attacks in decades.
President Francois Hollande stood in a crowd of students from Paris' Sorbonne university, some with their heads bowed, others looking up defiantly.
Crowds gathered at a makeshift monument at Republique Plaza in a neighborhood targeted by the attacks, where a banner reads "Can't Scare Us."
Schools and businesses across the country also held a moment of silence.
11:40 a.m.
Prime Minister David Cameron says seven terror attacks have been foiled in Britain the past six months.
Cameron, speaking on the BBC on Monday, said attacks directed at civilian targets "was the sort of thing we warned about" and that authorities would determine whether further steps are needed to thwart such atrocities.
Cameron announced earlier that his government is doubling spending on aviation security and is recruiting some 1,900 security and intelligence agents.
11:35 a.m.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says 168 locations across France have been raided overnight, and 104 people have been placed under house arrest in the past 48 hours.
Cazeneuve said Monday: "It's just a start, these operations are going to continue, the response of the Republic will be huge, will be total. The one who targets the Republic, the Republic will catch him, will be implacable."
11:30 a.m.
A major action with heavily armed police is underway in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek amid a manhunt for a suspect of the Paris attacks.
Police arrested three suspects in the impoverished Brussels neighborhood on Saturday and continued house searches. The special action began early Monday.
Neighbors were told to stay away from the street where masked police have sealed off a section.
11:15 a.m.
A senior Turkish official says authorities flagged one of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks to their French counterparts back in 2014 but received no response.
The official said Monday that Turkish authorities identified Omar Ismail Mostefai as a possible "terror suspect" in October 2014. It notified French authorities in December 2014 and in June 2015.
The official said Turkey had no response from France until after the Paris attacks when it requested information on Mostefai.
The Paris prosecutor's office says Mostefai had been flagged as having ties to Islamic extremism five years ago.
The Turkish official said Mostefai entered Turkey in 2013 but authorities have no record of him leaving. He said Mostefai's case shows that intelligence-sharing and effective communication are crucial to counter-terrorism efforts.
The official cannot be named because of rules barring civil servants from speaking to reporters without authorization.
—By Suzan Fraser
10:50 a.m.
A French official says the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was also linked to thwarted train and church attacks.
A French official has identified the suspected mastermind as Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and says he is believed linked to thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train and Paris area church.
The official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, was not authorized to be publicly identified as speaking about the ongoing probe.
Seven people are in custody in Belgium suspected of links to the attacks and an international arrest warrant has been issued for a Belgian-born Frenchman believed involved in the attacks and who is still at large.
10:40 a.m.
France is urging its European partners to move swiftly to boost intelligence sharing, fight arms trafficking and terror financing, and strengthen border security in the wake of the Paris attacks.
The top French official in charge of European affairs, Harlem Desir, told reporters on Monday that "clearly, decisions must be taken."
He underlined the need for "cooperation in matters of intelligence, (between) police and the judiciary, the fight against terrorism on European territory."
Desir's remarks came in Brussels ahead of talks with European Union foreign ministers.
He said that "France was attacked, but all of Europe was hit. We were hit together, and we will respond together."
10:30 a.m.
Britain's government says it is doubling spending on aviation security and is recruiting some 1,900 security and intelligence agents as part of Britain's response to the Paris attacks.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced the actions during the G-20 summit being concluding Monday in Turkey.
Cameron, who, pledged a 15 percent increase in the 12,700-strong staff of the security and intelligence agencies and a doubling of the 9 million pounds ($13.7 million) annual outlay on aviation security. Funds will also be provided for aviation security experts to provide regular assessments of airports around the world.
The steps are part of an extensive review of spending and not a direct response to the Paris attacks.
10:15 a.m.
The Paris prosecutor's office says two more suicide bombers involved in deadly attacks in the French capital have been identified.
Prosecutors said Monday that one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday night was Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.
Prosecutors say three people in Amimour's family entourage have been in custody since early Monday.
A suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the national soccer stadium was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib. The prosecutor's office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.

November 16, 2015 7:55 p.m. The proprietors of Paris' Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died on Friday, say no words can express their sorrow. They said in a statement on Twitter that the authorities were still carrying out work in the building and they didn't know when the venue would be able to reopen.
They said their thoughts were with the victims, the injured and their loved ones and thanked people for their support, "which has touched us deeply." Gunmen stormed the longstanding rock venue in Paris' 11th arrondissement Friday during a concert by American band Eagles of Death Metal, firing on the crowd and killing dozens.
The area around the theater is now heaped with flowers, cards and tributes to the dead.
7:45 p.m.
Offering condolences and prayers, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama says the nation must continue to keep the victims and families of the Paris attacks in their thoughts and hearts.
The first lady echoed the words of the president, saying the attack was not just on France, a "dear friend and ally, but on all humanity and our shared values."
Mrs. Obama made the remarks as she welcomed more than 40 students Monday to the White House for arts and theater workshops. She said the young people are a reflection of those values, including their passion and creativity.
7:35 p.m.
American basketball player Shawn James has not traveled with his Spanish club to play a game in France because of security concerns following the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Club Dominion Bilbao Basket said Monday that James and his family were worried about his safety and the center decided not to make the trip for Tuesday's game in Nanterre, west of Paris.
Coach Sito Alonso said the club respected James' decision and was not in a position to oblige the player to travel along with the rest of his teammates.
Club officials said they tried to postpone the game because of safety concerns but their request was denied by Eurocup officials.
The 32-year-old James was one of the Duquesne players targeted in the 2006 shootings at the university's campus. He previously played in Israel.
7:30 p.m.
France's U.N. ambassador says he is working on the timing of a U.N. Security Council meeting and the content of a resolution on the fight against terrorism.
Francois Delattre told reporters he was following up on French President Francois Hollande's announcement that France would urge the U.N.'s most powerful body to take action following the Paris attacks.
A council resolution adopted immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States demanded that all 193 U.N. member states adopt national laws to combat terrorism.
The council has also adopted resolutions against the recruitment and financing of foreign fighters supporting "terrorist groups."
The council on Friday condemned "the barbaric and cowardly terrorist attacks" in Paris in the strongest terms and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
7:15 p.m.
British tennis player Andy Murray says the Paris attacks are a "terrible, terrible tragedy" and he thinks the best course of action is to "live our normal lives."
Murray won his opening match at the season-ending ATP finals on Monday. He was asked about the attacks in Paris after the match.
He says "all of sport really has shown that it's a terrible, terrible tragedy. Obviously everyone was very upset by it. But it's not something I would say I know enough about to really give a fair comment on."
After the ATP tournament, Murray will play for Britain in the Davis Cup final against Belgium from Nov. 27-29 in Gent.
Murray says he is not afraid to go to Belgium despite the links of the Paris attacks to Brussels.
He says "I think everybody right now is concerned about things. But I do think the best thing that we can do is to live our normal lives, not change too much, because then the terrorists are the ones that are winning."
7:10 p.m.
The Eiffel Tower, which dimmed its lights in mourning following Friday's attacks in Paris, has been relit in blue, white and red.
The 116-year-old international symbol of Paris will remain lit up in the colors of the French flag for three nights. Monuments around the world have done the same in recent days in a show of sympathy with Paris, including the Sydney Opera House, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue.
After the relighting, Paris' motto "Fluctuat nec mergitur" or "Tossed but not sunk." was to be projected onto the 300-meter (986-foot) monument visible across the French capital.
The tower reopened to visitors Monday afternoon.
7 p.m.
The army says it is stepping up security to increase protection of some military sites and installations in the Czech capital, Prague, following the terror attacks in Paris.
The general staff says in a statement Monday soldiers will be deployed outside the sites that have not been identified and in the surrounding public areas.
Authorities increased security at the country's international airports, major shopping centers, the French embassy and other sites shortly after the attacks.
6:50 p.m.
The captain of France's national soccer team says the players had some concerns about playing England in a friendly match, four days after the Paris attacks, but were told they had to by the president of the football federation.
"Like all my teammates, we respect this decision and it will be a good opportunity to represent the national team," Hugo Lloris said at Wembley Stadium, where the game will take place on Tuesday. "The French nation is more important than French football team."
Lloris says the members of the France squad have been holed up at the team's training base in Clairefontaine and unable to see their families since the attacks on Friday that killed 129 people.
"Of course we are human. We would have liked to spend time with our nearest and dearest " Lloris said. "But we have not been cut off from the world. We have kept up to date with what's happening through the Internet."
Lloris says "tomorrow will be a great moment of solidarity — the last three days have been dramatic and I think we were in mourning all together."
6:35 p.m.
Kensington Palace officials have announced that Prince William will attend Tuesday's friendly match in London between England and France amid heightened security following the Paris attacks.
London Mayor Boris Johnson also plans to attend.
Police have announced extra security will be in place for the game at Wembley Stadium. A similar friendly match between Germany and France was the subject of an attack in Paris Friday night when suicide bombs were set off near the stadium.
London police said in a statement Monday that security plans have been reviewed "in light of the tragic events in Paris."
It said that "extra, highly-visible armed officers" will be patrolling around Wembley Stadium.
The statement said the plans are precautionary and not the result of any specific threats.
6:20 p.m.
The Islamic State group has released a video showing one its fighters in Iraq vowing to attack Washington the way Paris was attacked last week.
The nearly 12-minute video shows unidentified fighters praising Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people, and calling on Muslims in France to "ignite and kill soldiers and tyrants."
One fighter says Muslims should strike in the West because the U.S.-led coalition is targeting IS in Iraq.
Another fighter warned nations that are taking part in the "Crusaders' campaign," saying that as "we struck France on its ground in Paris we will strike America on its ground in Washington."
6:15 p.m.
One of the three brothers who have been linked to the Paris attacks has said upon his release from detention in Brussels that he and his family "are moved by what happened" in Paris and "could never have believed that one of our brothers was involved."
After his weekend detention, Mohamed Abdeslam was released Monday and spoke to reporters about his brother Brahim who died during a suicide attack Friday and his other brother Salah who is a fugitive.
"We don't know where he is at the moment," he said of Salah. "We don't know, because of the current tensions, if he will dare to turn himself in to the justice," Mohamed told reporters.
He said that because of the events "my parents are in shock and don't realize what happened."
6:05 p.m.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the 28-nation political and military alliance will work even more closely with other countries "to fight extremism and terrorism."
Without announcing any new concrete actions, he said Monday that "we must stand vigilant, determined and united."
Stoltenberg spoke during the annual conference of the European Defense Agency in Brussels. Earlier in the day, employees at NATO headquarters honored the victims of last Friday's terror attacks in Paris with a minute's silence.
5:50 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande wants the constitution changed so that the government can revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists born in France who have dual nationality.
Hollande said Monday in a rare joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles that "we must be able to revoke the French citizenship of a person convicted for threatening the nations' interest or for terrorist acts."
Under current French law, citizenship revocation can only be applied to people who have been naturalized, if they have dual nationality.
5:35 p.m.
Norwegian police say they have postponed a decision to go unarmed following the Paris attacks and will carry guns until next month.
Kaare Songstad, director of safety and security at the National Police Directorate, said Monday that following the carnage in Paris, "the most important thing we can do is obtain the best possible overview of the situation internationally and nationally" by cooperating with all the various police departments.
Norwegian police, who have traditionally patrolled streets unarmed, had been carrying weapons for about a year as a temporary measure after the country's security service raised the terror alert level. After the level was downgraded, police announced last week that there were no grounds to continue the temporary measure and would lay down their arms this week.
5:20 p.m.
Germany's Foreign Ministry says a second German citizen has been identified among those killed in Friday's Paris attacks.
The statement Monday provided no further details on the man's identity.
5:05 p.m.
A video released by the Islamic State group shows fighters praising last week's deadly attacks in Paris and urging Muslims to carry out similar acts.
A fighter who appears in the video released Monday, which was filmed in the northern Iraqi province of Kirkuk, calls on Muslims all over the world, especially in France, to "intensify their attacks against Crusaders."
Another fighter says "we congratulate the oppressed Muslims worldwide for this sacred act that our brothers carried out against the enemies of religion."
The unidentified fighters say members of the U.S.-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against the Islamic State group "will not enjoy peace and security until Muslims live" safely.
IS claimed the attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people.
5 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande says the Paris attacks targeted "youth in all its diversity" and that the victims were of 19 different nationalities.
Speaking in a special joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles, Hollande said the attackers targeted "the France that likes life, culture, sports, parties."
Islamic State militants killed 129 people in Friday's attacks.
4:50 p.m.
The English Football Association says there will more security checks, a greater presence of armed police and a slower entrance procedure for Tuesday's soccer friendly match between England and France at London's Wembley Stadium, which is being played four days after the Paris attacks.
"The match tomorrow is going to have massive global significance," FA chief executive Martin Glenn said. "It's the first big event to happen since the tragedy of last Friday ... the eyes of the world will be on Wembley tomorrow, not just the eyes of the French and English people."
Glenn said it was important for the French and English teams to play and show solidarity, "to demonstrate that terrorism won't win."
England captain Wayne Rooney said he and his teammates had no concerns about playing the game.
"I think the world of football has to stay strong together," Rooney said. "I'm sure everyone will do that and try to deal with the situation to the best everyone knows how to do. I'm sure football will bring people together."
4:40 p.m.
France's president says a bill to extend the country's state of emergency for three months will be presented to parliament on Wednesday.
Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency following Friday night's attacks across the capital and at the Stade de France. Parliament must approve extending it.
The state of emergency extends some police powers of search and arrest and limits public gatherings, among other changes.
4:35 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande says he will meet with U.S. and Russian leaders to discuss pooling their efforts to destroy the Islamic State group.
Hollande, speaking at a special joint meeting of the upper and lower houses of parliament in the Palace of Versailles, said he had requested meetings with Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin.
Hollande said he wanted the talks "to unify our strength and achieve a result that has been too long in coming." Hollande called for "a union of all who can fight this terrorist army in a single coalition."
He didn't specify if he'd meet Obama and Putin together or separately.
4:30 p.m.
President Barack Obama says that the U.S. had no intelligence information ahead of the Paris attacks that killed 129 people last week that would have given a clue that an attack was imminent.
Speaking at a news conference at the Group of 20 leading economies summit in Antalya, Turkey, Obama said that the U.S. is constantly sharing intelligence with European allies about the Islamic State group and other extremist threats, but had no useful information before the Paris attacks.
He said: "I am not aware of anything that was specific."
4:25 p.m.
In light of the Paris attacks, a key figure in Poland's Roman Catholic Church has expressed concern about security at next summer's meeting of youth with Pope Francis in Poland.
The archbishop of Krakow, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, said Monday the church leaders are "worried because the events in Paris have shown that peace, security in Europe are threatened."
More than 2 million young Catholics from around the world are expected to take part in World Youth Day with the pope in Krakow July 25-31.
Dziwisz said he hopes that Europe and the U.S. have "enough strength" to jointly ensure security to make "Europe and Poland feel safe, and to allow Youth Day" and the Euro 2016 soccer championship in France to be held in "safety and peace, which Europe deserves."
4:15 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande is addressing parliament about France's response to the Paris attacks, in a rare speech to lawmakers gathered in the majestic congress room of the Palace of Versailles.
Hollande, in Monday's speech, is especially expected to evoke France's military operations in Syria and domestic security measures.
The last time a French president made a speech in front of both houses of Parliament in Versailles was in 2009, when Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the global financial crisis.
4:05 p.m.
Suspended UEFA president Michel Platini has observed a minute of silence in honor of the victims of the Paris attacks in a ceremony at the headquarters of European soccer's governing body.
Platini's legal team has told The Associated Press that the Frenchman was so affected by the string of attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people that "it was impossible for him not to attend" the ceremony on Monday in Nyon, Switzerland.
Platini's decision is a potential breach of the ban preventing him from entering UEFA's headquarters.
Platini has been suspended from all soccer activities for 90 days over a 2011 payment from FIFA.
UEFA said earlier that all teams playing in European internationals this week will wear black armbands, with a minute of silence held before kickoff in honor of those killed in Paris.
4 p.m.
The Eiffel Tower, which dimmed its lights in mourning following Friday's attacks in Paris, will be relit in red, white and blue.
The 116-year-old international symbol of Paris will light up in the colors of the French flag at 1800 GMT (1 p.m. EST) Monday. Monuments around the world have done the same in recent days in a show of sympathy with Paris, including the Sydney Opera House, Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue.
After the relighting, Paris' motto "Fluctuat nec mergitur" or "Tossed but not sunk." will be projected onto the 300-meter (986-foot) monument visible across the French capital.
The tower reopened to visitors Monday afternoon.
3:50 p.m.
A Turkish security official says authorities have arrested more than half a dozen suspected Islamic State militants who had exchanged messages with the militants in Paris who conducted the deadly attacks across the city.
The official said that the militants were planning a similar attack in Istanbul.
The security official said Monday that the suspects included a man they believe is associated with Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John."
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the investigation.
— By Suzan Fraser
3:40 p.m.
Belgium's federal prosecutor's office says that five of the seven people who were detained over the weekend because of possible links to the Paris attacks have been released.
Two others have been changed with being part of a terror group and links to a terror attack, the office said in a statement.
The office also said that a major police operation in Molenbeek during much of Monday failed to yield any arrests related to the Paris attacks.
3:15 p.m.
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency says the United States has not underestimated the threat posed by the Islamic State group.
John Brennan said Monday the success by the United States and its coalition countries in containing the group's momentum inside Iraq and Syria is "why I think they are looking abroad" to make attacks.
Asked whether the U.S. had underestimated the threat, Brennan said, "I don't think we are underestimating the capability of ISIL," using an alternate name for the group.
He told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, that while it was "inevitable" that the Islamic State will try to carry out such attacks, "to me it is not inevitable that they are going to succeed."
2:50 p.m.
Czech authorities say they are planning to boost security in the capital on Tuesday, the anniversary of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution.
Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka says the presence of extra force in the streets of Prague is meant as precaution.
Interior Minister Milan Chovanec says authorities have information some unspecified extremist group might misuse the national holiday but did not give any details.
Chovanec says: "We're ready to show that police is ready to protect the citizens."
Police also say in a statement they plan an increased presence also in other major cities across the country and that the decision is a reaction to the Paris attacks.
2:40 p.m.
German authorities are investigating claims that an Algerian man warned fellow migrants last week of an imminent attack in Paris.
A spokesman for prosecutors in Arnsberg says the unidentified 39-year-old was detained at a refugee shelter in the western German town, after two Syrian men contacted police Saturday.
Werner Wolff confirmed Monday a report by public broadcaster WDR that the man had told the Syrians that Paris would be subjected to "fear and terror."
2:35 p.m.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton says his department is operating as though attacks like those in Paris could happen in New York City.
Bratton said Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that his force has beefed up security and staffing, including at the French consulate, France's mission to the United Nations and Times Square.
Bratton says the Paris attackers' use of suicide vests is of particular concern, and officers are trying to learn more about the capability and types of arms used in the vests. He says New York police team will go to Paris this week.
2:20 p.m.
A local official says the massive police operation in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek has ended and that no one was injured.
Mayor Francoise Schepmans said Monday that the operation ended after more than three hours. It was unclear whether there was a major arrest during the operation which centered on a suspect in the Paris attacks.
Two small explosions were heard and dozens of masked and heavily armed security officials had sealed off the area and neighbors were told to stay out of harm's way.
Police arrested three suspects in the impoverished Brussels neighborhood on Saturday and continued house searches.
2:05 p.m.
Activists say French airstrikes on the northern Syrian city of Raqqa did not kill civilians and only hit military targets in the Islamic State group's de facto capital.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Monday the French targeted military facilities on the northern and southern edges of the city.
He says there are casualties among IS but did not provide numbers.
Sarmad al-Jilane, of the Raqqa-based collective called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, said the city is tense, with few people venturing out even though markets are open.
France's Defense Ministry said 12 aircraft dropped a total of 20 bombs Sunday night in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September.
2 p.m.
The lawyer for Mohammad Abdeslam, one of the brothers of a dead suicide bomber in the Paris attacks, has been released after he had been detained over the weekend. Another brother, Salah Abdeslam, is the object of a massive manhunt.
Brahim Abdeslam died when he detonated his suicide vest on Friday.
Mohamed Abdeslam's lawyer, Nathalie Gallant, told the RTL network that her client "hadn't made the same life choices."
1:45 p.m.
A French police union is calling for the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, which authorities consider a focal point for extremists and fighters, to come under EU security control, saying the government has ceded the area to the Islamic State group.
The neighborhood, which police raided Monday in a sweep for the fugitive Frenchman suspected in the Paris attacks, was home to the Belgian Islamic State jihadi believed to be behind the attacks and two other thwarted attempts.
The France Police union said Belgium's national institutions failed and demanded "necessary measures to protect the Belgian and European populations from terrorism." The EU has no provisions for the demand, which appeared to be largely a sign of frustration with what some are calling a massive security failure.
1:40 p.m.
Police were standing guard outside the two major French elementary and high schools in Dublin, Ireland's capital, on Monday. Both schools asked parents to ensure that their children went straight inside to classrooms, not linger outside at the entrance or in playgrounds.
They also said parents seeking to enter the schools would have to identify themselves to security staff and give the reason for their visit.
"There is no particular concern in Ireland, but we must be vigilant," school directors said in a message to parents and the school's approximately 500 pupils, thanking them "for your understanding, your help and your solidarity."
1:30 p.m.
Two small explosions were heard during a major police action in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek amid a manhunt for a suspect in the Paris attacks. Dozens of masked and heavily armed security officials had sealed off the area and neighbors were told to stay out of harm's way.
Police refused to provide any details about who may have set off the explosions or the purpose for them.
Two hours into the siege a first explosion was heard and a similar followed it one hour later on a higher floor of a building with special security forces close by on roofs.
Police arrested three suspects in the impoverished Brussels neighborhood on Saturday and continued house searches. The special action began early Monday.
1:10 p.m.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron joined French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and other European leaders at a G-20 summit for a minute of silence in honor of the 129 victims Paris attacks.
Standing between the French and the European Union flags, the leaders stood in silence at 1100GMT Monday, at the same time as French President Francois Hollande observed a minute of silence to along with schoolchildren and bystanders in Paris.
Black ribbons were tied around the French and EU flags in a mark of mourning. The leaders were seen hugging Fabius at the end of ceremony.
G-20 leaders are meeting on the sidelines of the summit at the Turkish seaside resort of Antalya to discuss next steps in Syria and the Islamic State campaign
12:20 p.m.
A Russian official has revealed a possible plot ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, saying female suicide bombers had planned to smuggle explosives onto an aircraft in hand cream.
Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov, who has responsibility for counter-terrorism, said the women were detained in Austria and France.
The head of Russia's FSB security services said in July that many countries had helped to prevent an array of attacks at the Olympics — primarily Austria, France, Germany, Georgia and the U.S. — but no details were given.
The Sochi Games were held amid high concern that insurgents from nearby restive Caucasus republics including Chechnya were planning attacks.
Syromolotov, whose comments were carried by Russian news agencies, spoke Monday before the upper house of Russia's parliament.
12:05 p.m.
The French president, schoolchildren, bystanders have held a minute of silence to honor the 129 people killed in the country's worst attacks in decades.
President Francois Hollande stood in a crowd of students from Paris' Sorbonne university, some with their heads bowed, others looking up defiantly.
Crowds gathered at a makeshift monument at Republique Plaza in a neighborhood targeted by the attacks, where a banner reads "Can't Scare Us."
Schools and businesses across the country also held a moment of silence.
11:40 a.m.
Prime Minister David Cameron says seven terror attacks have been foiled in Britain the past six months.
Cameron, speaking on the BBC on Monday, said attacks directed at civilian targets "was the sort of thing we warned about" and that authorities would determine whether further steps are needed to thwart such atrocities.
Cameron announced earlier that his government is doubling spending on aviation security and is recruiting some 1,900 security and intelligence agents.
11:35 a.m.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says 168 locations across France have been raided overnight, and 104 people have been placed under house arrest in the past 48 hours.
Cazeneuve said Monday: "It's just a start, these operations are going to continue, the response of the Republic will be huge, will be total. The one who targets the Republic, the Republic will catch him, will be implacable."
11:30 a.m.
A major action with heavily armed police is underway in the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek amid a manhunt for a suspect of the Paris attacks.
Police arrested three suspects in the impoverished Brussels neighborhood on Saturday and continued house searches. The special action began early Monday.
Neighbors were told to stay away from the street where masked police have sealed off a section.
11:15 a.m.
A senior Turkish official says authorities flagged one of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks to their French counterparts back in 2014 but received no response.
The official said Monday that Turkish authorities identified Omar Ismail Mostefai as a possible "terror suspect" in October 2014. It notified French authorities in December 2014 and in June 2015.
The official said Turkey had no response from France until after the Paris attacks when it requested information on Mostefai.
The Paris prosecutor's office says Mostefai had been flagged as having ties to Islamic extremism five years ago.
The Turkish official said Mostefai entered Turkey in 2013 but authorities have no record of him leaving. He said Mostefai's case shows that intelligence-sharing and effective communication are crucial to counter-terrorism efforts.
The official cannot be named because of rules barring civil servants from speaking to reporters without authorization.
—By Suzan Fraser
10:50 a.m.
A French official says the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was also linked to thwarted train and church attacks.
A French official has identified the suspected mastermind as Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and says he is believed linked to thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train and Paris area church.
The official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, was not authorized to be publicly identified as speaking about the ongoing probe.
Seven people are in custody in Belgium suspected of links to the attacks and an international arrest warrant has been issued for a Belgian-born Frenchman believed involved in the attacks and who is still at large.
10:40 a.m.
France is urging its European partners to move swiftly to boost intelligence sharing, fight arms trafficking and terror financing, and strengthen border security in the wake of the Paris attacks.
The top French official in charge of European affairs, Harlem Desir, told reporters on Monday that "clearly, decisions must be taken."
He underlined the need for "cooperation in matters of intelligence, (between) police and the judiciary, the fight against terrorism on European territory."
Desir's remarks came in Brussels ahead of talks with European Union foreign ministers.
He said that "France was attacked, but all of Europe was hit. We were hit together, and we will respond together."
10:30 a.m.
Britain's government says it is doubling spending on aviation security and is recruiting some 1,900 security and intelligence agents as part of Britain's response to the Paris attacks.
Prime Minister David Cameron announced the actions during the G-20 summit being concluding Monday in Turkey.
Cameron, who, pledged a 15 percent increase in the 12,700-strong staff of the security and intelligence agencies and a doubling of the 9 million pounds ($13.7 million) annual outlay on aviation security. Funds will also be provided for aviation security experts to provide regular assessments of airports around the world.
The steps are part of an extensive review of spending and not a direct response to the Paris attacks.
10:15 a.m.
The Paris prosecutor's office says two more suicide bombers involved in deadly attacks in the French capital have been identified.
Prosecutors said Monday that one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday night was Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.
Prosecutors say three people in Amimour's family entourage have been in custody since early Monday.
A suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the national soccer stadium was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib. The prosecutor's office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.

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Like their foreign counterparts, Nigerian celebrities have cultivated the habit of flaunting their baby bumps. 
This is an act which is not African because in Africa, babies are not celebrated until they are given birth to. But give or take it has come to stay.
While Africans and Nigerians are trying to comprehend the idea of carrying pregnancy in tight fitting dresses as against maxi maternity gowns some of these celebrities have gone a step further by baring their baby bumps body.
Naij.com shares pictures of celebrities that bare their beautiful and sexy baby bumps.
Ufoma Ejenobor:
This ex- beauty queen turned Nollywood actress is married Stephen Mcdermott. Ufuoma was happy to share her first pregnancy in the photo shoot
she had.
Adaeze Yobo:
The former most beautiful girl in Nigeria was happy when she got pregnant for the first time that she had a photo shoot to remind her of how she looked in pregnancy. Adaeze is married to former Super Eagles’ captain, Joseph Yobo.
Dior Chiedra Adiele :
Nollywood actress posed nude during her nine month pregnancy. The actress who is also a video vixen had the shoot on 24th June, 2015 to celebrate her pregnancy and her new body.
Titilayo Oyebola Adelagun-Oyinsan
Ex-Model and On-Air Personality at Inspiration FM Titilayo Oyebola Adelagun-Oyinsan aka Titi Fanta happily showed off her bump picture years back.
Stephanie Kalu-Uche
Former MBGN Universe Stephanie Uche became one of our favorite beauty queens when she was crowned in 2008. Since then, she has transitioned from her role as a beauty queen when she featured in a few Nollywood movies. Stephanie who is married to Super Eagles star flaunted her baby bump when she was pregnant.
Lizzy Gold Onuwaje:
Fast rising Nollywood actress and ex-beauty queen on Tuesday, November 9, welcomed her bundle of joy. After the birth of her baby, the ex- Miss Delta state shared the pictures of her baby bump in the last trimester.
Ijeoma Agu:

Up-and-coming Nollywood actress Ijeoma Agu flaunts her baby bump when she was eight months pregnant with her first child in 2014.
Kaffy:
Energetic dance queen and one time Guinness record breaker Kafayat Shafau Ameh flaunts her second pregnancy in its second semester in 2013.
Oby Edozien:
This Nollywood actress got married to former Nigerian singer of the 90s, Alex O. She was happy to flaunt her second baby bump with her fans when she shared this picture.
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Following the swearing-in of ministers by President Buhari, Senator Gbenga Ashafa has told the new ministers that they will be judged by the number of Nigerians they bring out of poverty rather than the number of contracts signed or meetings.
“Every decision you take must first pass this test: “How many jobs will this choice create?” remember, that is will save this nation jobs,” he said. The senator also urged the ministers to wrestle Nigeria to prosperity.
In a statement made available to our reporter on Friday, November 13, Senator Ashafa said the new ministers must be the crusaders of change.

“My challenge to the newly-appointed ministers is that they see themselves as Crusaders of Change. They have been given an opportunity of a lifetime to do the incredible; making Nigeria the greatest nation on earth! They must remain disciplined and focused. Selfless service, focus, integrity and patriotism must guide every assignment. Wherever they may go and whomever they may meet, they must leave people with the best impressions of Nigeria.
“Dear Ministers, your job is to market Nigeria the best way possible. All eyes are on you. Our youth will watch you via social media and expect you to get it right all the time. Experts will criticise and praise you – sometimes fairly, other times harshly. Your boss will make strenuous demands on your time and your abilities.
“When all looks bleak, remember you are doing it for the disadvantaged children of the war-ravaged North East; recall that there are thousands of innocent Nigerians in various jailhouses crying out for justice; reminisce on the pregnant women who require delicate but unavailable healthcare; think of the fathers who faithfully till the ground for little harvest; consider that young entrepreneur with life-changing ideas but has no funds to give them wings; ponder the struggles of our soldiers as they lay down their lives to defend the nation.