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The president inspected the vehicles following the visit of the Executive Vice President, Middle East and Africa, Peugeot Citreon, Mr. Jean-Christophe Quemard’s visit to the villa. Speaking to the audience, Buhari reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to the federal government’s privatization and commercialization policy. He stressed, however, that greater consideration will now be given to the technical and managerial competence of prospective buyers of government-owned companies.

The President said that a higher premium will be placed on the technical competence and financial clout of bidders in future privatisation exercises to avoid the running aground of privatized companies by ill-equipped and incapable investors.
President Buhari who spoke after being briefed on plans by Peugeot to stage a comeback in Nigeria after the collapse of the privatization of Peugeot Automobiles Nigeria Limited, noted that privatization could only succeed and yield desired benefits if buyers of government-owned companies possess essential skills and resources. Mr. Quemard assured President Buhari that Peugeot was ready to reinvest in vehicle assembly in Nigeria, provided that the right indigenous partners are found.

The Peugeot Chief Executive for Africa and the Middle-East briefed the President on the company’s three-phased plan to resume vehicle assembly in Nigeria with 4,000 cars next year, rising up to 10,000 cars by 2021. He said that the plan, which he urged the Federal Government to support with appropriate policies and actions, will entail higher local content in the assembly of Peugeot cars in Nigeria and the exportation of locally assembled Peugeot cars from Nigeria to neighbouring African countries.
Peugeot Automobiles Nigeria Limited which was privatized some years ago has technically reverted to government ownership with up to 85 per cent of its shares now held by the Federal Government and the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). See photos below:
             
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan is a year older today, 20th November, 2015 and he has been getting loads of birthday greetings on social media.
The former president is 58 year old today.
Former president Goodluck Jonathan
Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president of Nigeria was not left out of those wishing Jonathan a happy birthday.
 
Other Nigerians, including celebrities have also sent their goodwill messages to the former president.

Goodluck Jonathan speaks on arms procurement scandal
Goodluck Jonathan
Speaking at a forum which was co-hosted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC, United States, on Thursday, November 19, Jonathan who waded into the issue said his administration never awarded any contract in the range of $2 billion for procurement of arms, Premium Times reports.
Jonathan who was the sole speaker at an event titled Presidential elections and democratic consolidation in Africa: Case studies on Nigeria and Tanzania’ said: “I did not award any $2 billion contract for procurement of weapons. Where did the money come from? I did not award a contract of $2 billion for procurement of weapons.”
 
The current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari had constituted a presidential investigations committee in August to embark on a probe into the issue of the arms procurement which was said to have been transacted during the immediate past administration.
The investigation revealed that in its interim report that it found extra-budgetary spending by the Jonathan administration to the tune of N643.8 billion and an additional $2.2 billion in the foreign currency component.
All of that was said to have been managed and supervised by the embattled Dasuki.
But on his part, Dasuki had said in a statement on Wednesday that all contracts and accruing payments were made based on the approval of former President Jonathan.
Dasuki also added that due process and military procurement regulations were followed in all the transactions he had supervised.
The retired colonel has said: “Nigerians should note that all the services generated the types of equipment needed, sourced suppliers most times and after consideration by the Office of the NSA, the President will approve application for payment.”
In line with Dasuki’s earlier argument, Jonathan in his speech suggested that the claims by the Buhari-led administration were false and unsubstantiated.
Jonathan who stated that he was aware of allegations of huge sums of money that were said to be missing from the Nigerian treasury claimed that some of the figures mentioned were not believable.
He said: “Sometimes, I feel sad when people mention these figures.”
The erstwhile president said: “When the president (Buhari) paid official visit to the US, there were some figures that were mentioned that I don’t believe.”
Jonathan who said he did not want to join issues with the current government, drew attention to figures like the $150 billion alleged to have been stolen in previous Nigerian administrations.
He derided the probability of “$150 billion American money” being missing and “Americans will not know where it is,” adding that at any rate President Buhari did not accuse his administration.

The ex-president said: “He didn’t say my government, he said previous administrations… $150 billion is not 150 billion naira. People play politics with very serious issues.
“In Nigeria, if you lose $59.8 million in a year, federal and state governments will not pay salaries,” he said, adding that: “there is no way Nigerian budget can accommodate such a loss without the country coming to a standstill. Of course we brought international audit teams, forensic auditors and they didn’t see that.”
Meanwhile, the presidency on its part
The US study was based on a survey of more than 30,000 Americans in four decades and was published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
“Although more frequent sex is associated with greater happiness, this link was no longer significant at a frequency of more than once a week. Our findings suggest that it’s important to maintain an intimate connection with your partner, but you don’t need to have sex everyday as long as you’re maintaining that connection,” said lead researcher Amy Muise, a social psychologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto-Mississauga.
Researchers noted that the study was not designed to show cause-and-effect, so it remains unknown whether happiness leads to weekly sex, or if weekly sex arouses more joy in life. The study also said its research is limited to people in romantic relationships only, not single people.
“In fact, there was no association between sexual frequency and well-being for single people,” said Muise.
The findings were also consistent across age groups, gender and the length of the relationship — whether months or decades. Muise said couples should discuss whether their sexual needs are being met, rather than simply press for more sex.
“It’s important to maintain an intimate connection with your partner without putting too much pressure on engaging in sex as frequently as possible,” she said.

Knock! Knock! Who’s there? Black Friday! Already? It is now or never! For what? To participate in the biggest shopping online event in Nigeria. Why? The craziest deals of the year in one place.


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Oris Erhuero and Genevieve Nnaji, co-lead actors in the movie Road To Yesterday.
Oris Erhuero and Genevieve Nnaji, co-lead actors in the movie Road To Yesterday.
It is a few hours to the screening of Genevieve Nnaji’s movie, Road to Yesterday, at the Genesis Deluxe Cinema on Friday, November 13 when  met the award-winning actress for an exclusive chat on the movie.
We wondered why despite being in Nollywood for over 15 years and unlike her other colleagues – Rita Dominic, Iyabo Ojo, Funke Akindele etc. – it has only taken just now for the award-winning actress who hails from Imo state to produce her own movie.
“It took this long because I didn’t come here to make movies of my own; I came here to act,” she explained. “I want to be an actor, that’s what it is. It took a while to realize that I needed to show people where I’m at, the growth that I have had to pass through over the years. I needed to show them. So this is an introduction of who I am as an artiste, my creative prowess.”
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She described her first role as a producer as “challenging.”
I was wearing too many hats and I had to be strong all the way,” she said.
Genevieve Nnaji, lead actor/ producer of the movie Road To Yesterday.
It’s an amazing one from the star actress who even prior to her production debut was simmering towards legendary status as far as African movies were concerned. Her grip firmly placed on the pulse of things has earned her multiple awards as well as several comparisons to Hollywood star Julia Roberts.
However, for her co-star Oris Erhuero, who played Izu, Genevieve’s husband in Road to Yesterday, the comparison to the American actress is not necessary.  To him, Genevieveis beyond all comparisons.
 as “one of the world’s finest movie stars”.
Road To Yesterday has been promoted as a romantic thriller laced with beautiful nuances and the various shades of pain, sadness and how to deal with denial.
On what fans should expect from it, Genevieve said: “I think they should look out for the story. I think they should look out for performance. And I really think that they should look out for a project that is predominantly Nigerian, made by Nigerians and proudly Nollywood.”

With just two days to go before Adele's much anticipated album 25 is released, the singer took the stage at the famed Radio City Music Hall last night in Manhattan, where she performed new songs like "Hello," and "When We Were Young."

The regal Jenny Packham gown and "I don't fuck with you" updo paired well with her characteristically commanding stage presence, belting out a fresh batch of epic singles, while not failing to supply the audience with a medley of her most famous tunes, including "Chasing Pavements," "Someone Like You," and of course, "Rolling In the Deep."
We were also gifted with this 30 second clip of a brand new track "Water Under the Bridge," which sort of has a Sting vibe with its piano/guitar blend; yes, I'm teary typing this at my desk.
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Is that projection of Adele available to be displayed on the ceiling/walls of every office?

Lucky attendees of the sold out show didn't hesitate to boast about their bounty on social media, like @hay777:






#InternallyBleeding
Hayden's internal mess proved not in vain...



Celebrities also flocked to the legendary hall to take in the siren's splendor, including Tina Fey and Jennifer Lawrence...
...and J-Law's bestie, Donald Trump, who cut the line to get in (of course)...
...much to the dismay of fans, like this angry BuzzFeed personality:


Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven's Mustang won the Europa Cinemas Label Award after screening in the Director's Fortnight in the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, and was selected as the French entry for Best Foreign Language film at the 88th Academy Awards. Not bad for a feature film debut. The dreamlike film, which has drawn comparisons to Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, tells the tale of five rebellious sisters whose family, obsessed with the girls' purity and marriageability, lock them away in a provincial Turkish home to monitor their bodies and train them for wifehood. Ankara-born director Ergüven -- a truly cosmopolitan artist who grew up in in Turkey, France, and the U.S. -- spoke with Paper about casting challenges, directing while pregnant, and the oppressive sexualization of women.
Mustang has a very fairy tale-like quality -- I was reminded of The Brothers Grimm's "Twelve Dancing Princesses" and Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard." Were there specific stories that inspired you?
Initially the desire at the base of the film was to tell what it was like to be a woman in Turkey. A few years before I even began writing the script, my attention was gradually focusing more and more on being a woman and getting closer to the subject in the books I was reading, the questions I was asking people. Everything was going in the same direction. The first draft was a lot of situations based on the stories of my family, which consists of two generations of strong women. So, there were a lot of scenes which were completely true -- for example, when the girls trigger the little scandal at the beginning of the film, when they sit on the shoulders of the boys, and a lot of specific scenes or even details. I put it in a drawer, thinking it was too close to reality. They're my secrets, secrets of people around me, so I couldn't handle it. Less than a year later, I took it out again, with [French screenwriter/director] Alice Winocour this time. What you perceive as elements of fairy tales were my way of distancing it from real life events. All of the basic situations are true. But when Nur breaks the chairs in the house saying, "These chairs touched our assholes! That's disgusting!", for example, those are the things that stay in your throat and you never manage to say.
And then, elements of, not only fairy tales, but mythology were starting to come out from every hole while we were writing. For example, I always identified the girls as a hydra -- a body with five heads, ten arms, ten legs -- and the story has something of the Minotaur and Daedalus in it. And there were aesthetic choices: when a girl came into casting with hair down to her thigh, it had something of a fairy tale vision. So, of course our attention was drawn to her. Or, while doing the location scouting, they had to have something of a fairy tale look -- an eerie nature, a look like the end of the world. There were a lot of aesthetic choices that drove us far away from the reality we were talking about.
A lot of these fairy tales and myths are ways of grappling with the idea of bourgeoning sexuality, especially as it relates to women. I thought it was really interesting that this film used some of the aesthetics of those myths and folk tales, but elevated that subtext of female sexuality and made it the text. You've said that you didn't want to make a didactic political film, but what specifically did you want to explore about female sexuality, especially in Turkey?
The most striking thing to me, which is shown in the opening scene, is the sexualizing of women's every action or every single part of their skin. It's something that starts at a very early age, and it determines their place in society from then on. That story about when the girls play in the water was just one of many anecdotes that showed the same thing. The foundation was systematic sexualization.
So much of the film is about the interactions between generations, especially between generations of women. You were actually pregnant while you shot the film -- how did that affect how you thought about this story?
Literally four weeks before the first day of shooting, I learned that I was pregnant, which was a beautiful surprise. But it was still a surprise. And then, exactly a week later, the main producer of the film abandoned the film. So, we were a hair away from not making the film. For three days it was dead. So, I found another producer. The first producer had taken away all the team and they were all back in Paris, so I was on my own in Istanbul, pregnant and was like, "Ok, how are we going to do this?" It took three days, and I found a producer, who was initially the first producer I had given the script to when I had finished writing it. He came on board at the 25th hour, and it was perfect because the film was underfinanced and in bad shape, in terms of production. It was great that it happened that way.
What happened with the pregnancy was that it gave me a lot of cold blood. It was a permanent crisis we had to handle, but the pregnancy made me avoid stress altogether. It was forbidden. I wasn't allowed to stress and I had to make a film, even as it was completely impossible. I had been working on my first feature for years, and Mustang was my second script and the first that managed to go into production. And I think the reason why I got pregnant was because I had withheld everything I wanted to do in life until the moment I would do a film. The fact that the film started to crystallize and come to life…I think the pregnancy was linked to that. We were very, very demanding on the girls: it was very long days of shooting for everyone, and since I was as vulnerable as them, being pregnant, we were in the same boat and I could demand a lot of them.



Speaking of the girls, this is a pretty remarkable cast of young actresses and only one of them had any previous onscreen experience. What was your process of finding them? They really look like sisters, and they're all so wonderful onscreen.
I was thinking about this figure [director] Ben Zeitlin talked about, that four thousand girls auditioned for Beasts of the Southern Wild. I was thinking "Oh, my God, we have five to find and the combination is very important, so we're going to see twenty thousand..." I was thinking impossible figures. But the audition process wasn't that much. It took nine months; the casting director saw thousands, and I saw hundreds of auditions. I had a plan for the auditions, which managed to show us real acting qualities in the girls: who would really listen, who would be completely immersed for minutes and minutes when we started to dive into a new situation. And then we could see the colors, the temper, everything of the girl. Plus, you have to have the physical resemblance. For months, I tried different combinations until one day it magically clicked. When they met for the first time, especially the two elder ones, they looked at each other as if they were looking in the mirror.
There's this English theater director, Peter Brook, who has written about this magical moment where he worked with actors in a chorus during a Greek tragedy. He said that, at one moment, everyone started to move together, to breathe as a single body. And all of a sudden, the leader of the chorus dropped to the ground, and they don't even talk about it. They know who it's going to be because it's like a natural election process within the group. With the girls, there was really a magical moment like that. All of a sudden, they were a group and they were in complete symbiosis. It was just perfect. And they got that thing really fast. [Günes Sensoy, the actress who played] Lale was a bit shy and behind the rest of the group [during an early scene]. She was so skinny and looked like a little ballerina. Then, at some point, her top blew and she started having this huge argument with the scene's antagonist and she was like a little hardened criminal having a fight. The other girls just took a step back and let her do that because they understood the dynamic of that group, and they also felt their own specific gestures. She was so small and so light that, if she bothered them, they seized her and they threw her away. It became a thing of that group. Like, she was a bit like the fly around the group. It was really great to watch.

When the first draft was written and I was looking at the skeleton of the film, I think what was closest to it was a film I watched when I was very young, Escape from Alcatraz. I've been watching a lot of escape movies and a lot of movies where the house is a character. For the distance between what we were saying and the form of the film -- it has nothing to do with my film itself and it's even crazy to say the name -- but I was thinking of Salò by Pasolini, because he was talking about fascism in this metaphorical way and we were talking about Turkey with equal distance, I think. The scenes when the girls are racing in the village like a little pack of horses or the scenes where they are parading in their shapeless, shit-colored dresses in the village, we wanted something that looked like a Western, which was a very specific distance from naturalism.

I'm not so sure yet. We have a script that we're developing with Alice Winocour, the co-writer of this film, and it takes place in Turkey -- in Istanbul. If Mustang is about what it is to be a woman, [this new film] is about what it is to live in a democracy. We can talk about the recent past in Turkey, but now Turkey's taken an even more dramatic turn in the latest elections. We're, again, taking a step away from democracy. So, it needs a lot of thinking and depth.



Ahead of Bayelsa state’s gubernatorial election, some women have shown how much love they have for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate.
The PDP candidate who is also the governor of the state, Seriake Henry Dickson, went on a campaign tour in Ikolo, an Ijaw community. He was welcomed by a group of women who spread their wrappers on the road for him to walk on.

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      Just recently, Ugandan women have taken their love for the presidential candidate, Amama Mbabazi, to the next level.

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Daily Mail reports that the couple had gone for their honeymoon in Saudi Arabia and what happened on their first night as a couple has been the talk of the social media since then.
The man could not ‘get his manhood up’ to do his duty as the husband on their wedding night. The lady decided to help out by calming him down, and guided him on what to do, reassuring her new husband about the situation. But this did not go down well with the man.
The man was said to have woken up early the next morning to divorce his wife and he took a flight back to his hometown on the grounds that “she is bold and rude”.
The bride’s family is now reportedly suing the groom for defaming their daughter’s reputation. The Kuwaiti groom has come in for harsh criticism on social media, with a number of Saudi bloggers branding him a ‘loser’ and calling for him to recall the divorce and apologise, according to GulfNews.
They point out that the younger generation of conservative Muslims learn about sex online and that her response to the situation did not mean she had not been a virgin on their wedding day, but simply that she knew how to use the internet.
This is not the first controversial divorce involving a Saudi couple in recent weeks.
Last month, a superstitious Saudi man divorced his wife just two days after their wedding because he considered her unlucky. The drapes in their home fell down and a waiter serving them fell too during dinner on their first day as a couple.The groom reportedly believed this meant his wife would bring him bad luck and decided it would be best to divorce her.
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The presumed mastermind of last week's devastating attacks in Paris once bragged about being so slippery he could move undetected between Syria and Belgium, his home country. On Wednesday he was targeted in a police operation in Paris.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud
This undated image made available in the Islamic State's English-language magazine Dabiq, shows Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. Abated who was identified by French authorities on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, is the presumed mastermind of the attacks last Friday in Paris. A senior police official on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, said he believed the Belgian Islamic State militant was inside an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis with other heavily armed people. (Militant photo via AP)
Explosions and gunfire rang out as French police stormed a building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis where Abdelhamid Abaaoud was believed to be hiding, a senior police official told The Associated Press. Authorities said a woman blew herself up and a man was killed. Seven people were arrested. Police did not identify them.
The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules, but is informed about the operation. On Monday, French authorities identified Abaaoud, the child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital's multiethnic Molenbeek neighborhood, as the presumed mastermind of last Friday's attacks that killed 129 people and wounded over 350. He also is believed to have links to earlier attacks that were thwarted: one against a Paris-bound high-speed train that was foiled by three young Americans in August, and the other against a church in the French capital's suburbs.
Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels' most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d'Uccle, Abaaoud morphed into Belgium's most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria.
"All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow," Abaaoud said in a video made public in 2014. "I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them."
Belgian authorities suspect him of also helping organize and finance a terror cell in the eastern city of Verviers that was broken up in an armed police raid on Jan. 15, in which two of his presumed accomplices were killed.
The following month, Abaaoud was quoted by the Islamic State group's English-language magazine, Dabiq, as saying that he had secretly returned to Belgium to lead the terror cell and then escaped to Syria in the aftermath of the raid, despite having his picture broadcast across the news.
"I was even stopped by an officer who contemplated me so as to compare me to the picture, but he let me go, as he did not see the resemblance!" Abaaoud boasted. The hardscrabble area in western Brussels where he grew up has long been considered a focal point of Islamic radicalism and the recruitment of foreign fighters to go to Iraq and Syria.
Abaaoud's image became grimmer after independent journalists Etienne Huver and Guillaume Lhotellier, visiting the Turkish-Syrian frontier, obtained photos and video last year of his exploits across Syria. The material included footage of him and his friends loading a pickup truck and a makeshift trailer with a mound of bloodied corpses.
Before driving off, a grinning Abaaoud tells the camera: "Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God's path, we're towing apostates, infidels who are fighting us."
Huver told the AP on Monday the video was too fragmentary to say much about Abaaoud's character, but he still detected some signs the Belgian was moving into a leadership role. "On the one hand I'm surprised," Huver said of Abaaoud's prominence. "On the other hand, I saw that there were beginnings of something . You can see that he's giving orders. You can feel a charismatic guy who's going up in the world ... You can see a combatant who's ready to climb the ranks."
French authorities didn't disclose the nature of the Belgian jihadi's purported connection to a pair of foiled terrorism incidents earlier this year in France. On Aug. 21, a heavily-armed passenger who boarded an Amsterdam-to-Paris Thalys high-speed train at Brussels opened fire in a train car before being overpowered by three Americans, two of them off-duty U.S. armed forces members.
French media reported the gunman in the abortive attack, Ayoub El Khazzani, 25, from Morocco, may have had ties to groups being investigated by counter-terrorism officials in Belgium. Belgian authorities launched an investigation into his possible accomplices. El Khazzani has been jailed in France on charges including attempted murder in connection with terrorism and participation in a terror conspiracy.
On April 19, French authorities said they thwarted a plot to attack a church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif after the alleged perpetrator apparently shot himself in the leg and called police. Arriving officers traced the blood to the car of Sid Ahmed Ghlam, in which they found an arsenal of weapons and indications he was planning to storm a church later in the day.
PARIS (AP) — The latest on the deadly attacks in Paris. (All times local):
England and French players stand paying a minute of silence in memory of the victims of Paris attacks ahead of the international friendly soccer match between England and France at Wembley Stadium in London, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. France is playing England at Wembley on Tuesday after the countries decided the match should go ahead despite the deadly attacks in Paris last Friday night which killed scores of people.
An official says a large police operation is under way in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis and it's believed to be linked to the deadly attacks on the French capital.
The police official says there have been exchanges of gunfire and special SWAT teams are on the scene. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy.
Police have blocked off the area around Place Jean Jaures in Saint Denis, just north of Paris.
French authorities have said they are searching for at least two people involved in last Friday's attacks, which killed at least 129 people and 7 terrorists.
Ambulances can be seen and sirens heard in French television footage from the scene.
3 a.m.
President Barack Obama says he's taking a wait-and-see approach on whether Russia does more to focus on Islamic State targets in Syria, which the U.S. would "welcome."
Intensified Russian airstrikes Tuesday hit the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, that is also being pounded by the French after the Paris attacks that killed 129 people.
The airstrikes came after Russia's FSB security service confirmed for the first time that a bomb caused the Oct. 31 crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai desert, killing 224 people. The Islamic state had already claimed responsibility.
Russia recently joined an international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State. But Obama maintained that Russia had been more focused on targeting moderate opposition groups and propping up Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Obama says he expressed his view to Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia has been going after the wrong targets. He says the U.S. is "going to wait and see" whether Russia shifts its focus to Islamic State targets "and if it does so that's something we welcome."
Obama commented Wednesday while traveling in the Philippines.
—By Kathleen Hennessey
1:15 a.m.
House members emerging from a closed-door briefing by top U.S. security officials say they were told that some of the Paris attackers were known to American intelligence.
One lawmaker said that of the attackers who have been identified all but one were on a U.S. no-fly list. The legislator did not know how many of the attackers' identities have been established.
This lawmaker also said that since last Friday's attacks, intelligence officials have added another name of a terrorist associated with the attacks to the no-fly list.
The legislators spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal information that was discussed at a classified briefing.
Republican Rep. Mac Thornberry, who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, wouldn't discuss what was said in the briefing. But he said he understands that some of the terrorists who conducted the attacks were known to U.S. officials.
Individuals on the no-fly list, enforced by the Transportation Security Administration, are banned from boarding an American airline or any flight that enters U.S. territory or U.S. airspace.
11:27 p.m.
Lassana Diarra and Antoine Griezmann were among the 23-man squad that came to London, and both came on as second-half substitutes to applause. France midfielder Diarra's cousin was killed and France forward Griezmann's sister escaped from the Bataclan concert hall where 89 people died.
Diarra lowered his head during the minute's silence. Many France players, who had been told to play the game by the French Football Federation, looked emotional for what was the country's first major public event since Friday's atrocities.
11:15 p.m.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate intelligence committee says there's a "strong likelihood" that the Paris attacks were directed, rather than just inspired, by the Islamic State group in Syria.
Senator Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, also said Tuesday it was likely the attack plotters in Syria, Belgium and France used encryption to hide their communications from authorities.
Burr, speaking to reporters after a classified intelligence briefing, said there was no direct evidence of encryption, but that authorities had concluded it was used because they have uncovered no evidence of conversations among the plotters. Such a statement acknowledges the extent to which intelligence agencies are able to monitor records of international phone traffic.
The comments were the strongest public attribution yet by American officials of the Islamic State's role in the Paris attacks. CIA director John Brennan said Monday that the attacks bore "the hallmarks of terrorism carried out" by the Islamic State.
Burr says the Islamic State group has a presence in 30 countries and poses a threat that is harder to handle than the one posed by al-Qaida.
—By AP Intelligence Writer Ken Dilanian
11:05 p.m.
Germany's top security official says providing details about the threats that led him to cancel a soccer match in Hannover could unsettle Germans and make future such decisions harder.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere declined to answer questions about the exact nature of the threat and the source of the information during a news conference after the Germany-Netherlands match was canceled.
De Maiziere asked for "trust," saying "some of these answers would unsettle the population, some of these answers would make our actions in future harder and (...) some of these answers might lead the source of the information not to provide tips to us anymore."
The German daily Bild reported authorities had received a warning that an attack using explosives and automatic weapons was planned.
10:55 p.m.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution condemning the horrific attacks in Paris.
The measure, approved by voice vote on Tuesday, condemns last Friday's assault "in the strongest terms possible."
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce of California says "this is a time not just to express sorrow but show resolve in this fight" against Islamic State militants.
The committee's top Democrat, Eliot Engel of New York, says the U.S. stands ready to assist its ally. He says "Vive la France, vive la liberte."
10:40 p.m.
Uniting in defiance and respect, fans and players of the French and English soccer teams are delivering a moving display of solidarity at Wembley Stadium at a game staged four days after the deadly attacks in Paris.
A touching pre-game ceremony saw England and France supporters sing the French national anthem as one. Then the two squads came together around the center circle to observe a minute of silence in honor of the 129 people killed in Paris.
Social media was awash with praise for the dignified way a sensitive occasion was handled. Wembley's iconic arch in London was lit up in the blue, white, and red of the French flag, while the French motto "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" was projected on the front of the English national stadium.
10:30 p.m.
Russian officials have their own symbol representing the attacks in Paris.
An image tweeted by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday at first glance looks like the widely popular meme that emerged within hours of the attacks showing the Eiffel Tower in a circle, mimicking the universal peace symbol.
On closer examination, however, it's not the Paris landmark in the circle but the silhouette of an airplane.
The image, superimposed on the red, blue and white bands of the Russian flag, comes as Russia intensifies its airstrikes in Syria, which it says are targeting Islamic State militants.
IS has claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks Friday night that left 129 people dead and 350 wounded, as well as for blowing up a Russian Metrojet on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people aboard.
10:20 p.m.
Australia's most senior Muslim cleric has clarified a statement by saying there is no justification for terrorist violence after he came under fire for linking the Paris attacks to racism and Islamophobia.
The Grand Mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, and the Australian National Imams Council said in a statement on Wednesday that they had "consistently and unequivocally condemned all forms of terrorist violence."
Critics had demanded a clarification after some said an initial statement Sunday could be interpreted as a justification for the coordinated attacks in Paris that killed at least 129 people.
That statement said current strategies to deal with terrorism had failed and it is "therefore imperative that all causative factors" such as racism and Islamophobia be addressed.
10:05 p.m.
A German security official has denied reports that explosives were found outside the stadium where Germany had been due to play a soccer match against the Netherlands.
Boris Pistorius, the interior minister for Lower-Saxony state, also told reporters late Tuesday that there had also been no arrests in the case.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the friendly match in the northern city of Hannover was canceled after German authorities received information about a possible planned attack on the stadium. A second stadium in the city, which was going to hold a concert, was also evacuated.
Top government officials including de Maiziere and Chancellor Angela Merkel had been scheduled to attend the game as a sign of defiance following the Paris attacks.
9:55 p.m. Germany's top security official says the decision to cancel the soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was made after authorities received mounting information during the course of the day about a possible attack.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters he wouldn't name the source of the information that led to the match in Hannover being called off shortly before it was to take place. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been among the top Germany officials scheduled to attend.
The German news agency dpa cited unnamed security officials in Berlin that a foreign intelligence agency had warned Germany of a possible attack by Islamic extremists.
9:35 p.m.
French police are circulating a photo of one of the suicide attackers who targeted the French national stadium in Paris last week and asking for information from anyone who recognizes him.
National police published a photo of the suicide bomber on its Twitter account Tuesday. A total of seven attackers died in the Nov. 13 rampage, but only five have been publicly identified so far. This photo was not named by police.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks that left 129 dead and over 350 wounded Friday night in Paris.
9:25 p.m.
Brahim Abdeslam, 31, a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside a Paris cafe on Friday, did a short prison term in Belgium for stealing official identity cards.
His former defense lawyer, Olivier Martins, told The Associated Press the cards "sell for a lot of money to people who want to remain on Belgian territory."
Abdeslam, a French citizen, was arrested in 2003, admitted to stealing and reselling 10 or so of the cards and spent a month in prison. Martins said he got him released, and by the time the case came to court in 2010, his client had turned his life around and the judge let him go.
Abdeslam had opened a small restaurant and "appeared to be on the right road." But Martins sensed problems. He says Abdeslam was "a kind, courteous, polite person ... who was very, very fragile and very easily influenced."
An international manhunt is on for Abdeslam's brother Salah, 26, who is also believed linked to the deadly Paris attacks.
9:10 p.m.
A second stadium in the northern German city of Hannover has been evacuated.
Concert-goers had been waiting for the band "Soehne Mannheims" to play.
Hannover's chief of police says authorities received a warning about a possible bomb threat shortly before the start of a soccer friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands in the main Hannover stadium. The stadium was evacuated and the game was canceled.
Police chief Volker Kluwe told German public broadcaster NDR that the alleged threat involved the "detonation of explosives in the stadium." He says the "key warning reached us about 15 minutes before the gates opened."
Germany's national soccer squad said the team was taken to "a safe place" by police.
Kluwe encouraged people in Hannover to go home, stay away from stadiums and not move about in large groups.
Germany's interior minister was holding a news conference later Tuesday on the twin evacuations.
8:55 p.m.
France's defense minister says 10 French fighter jets are carrying out new airstrikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria.
Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says the jets have carried out new raids Tuesday evening. Speaking on TF1 TV, the French defense minister said France will have 36 fighter jets in the region capable of carrying out airstrikes on IS targets once the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier reaches the zone.
The carrier embarks from Toulon on Thursday.
8:15 p.m.
Hannover's police chief says authorities have cancelled a friendly soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands because they had "concrete information" about a bomb threat.
The German news agency dpa quoted police chief Volker Kluwe saying the information concerned an explosives attack. The stadium was evacuated by police about an hour and a half before the kickoff Tuesday night in the northern German city.
Top government officials including Chancellor Angela Merkel had been scheduled to attend the match to send a signal that Germany wouldn't bow to terrorism in the wake of the Paris attacks.
7:45 p.m.
With a police helicopter whirring above and armed officers on patrol, soccer fans are flowing into London's Wembley Stadium before a friendly match between England and France four days after the deadly attacks in Paris.
The atmosphere was calm on a wet and windy evening and supporters appeared intent on sending a defiant message of unity after at least 129 people died Friday night in attacks on the French capital.
England fan Robert Williams, wearing a beret and holding a French flag, says "tonight is more about solidarity than football ... it is about remembering the people that have lost their lives in such tragic circumstances."
Prince William and British Prime Minister David Cameron were to be among the near-80,000 spectators at English football's national stadium.
7:30 p.m.
The soccer stadium in Hannover, Germany, is being evacuated and stadium loudspeakers say the game has been cancelled.
The stadium was hosting a match between Germany and the Netherlands. Many top German officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were scheduled to attend the match to show they will not bow to terrorism.
6:45 p.m.
German police have released seven people arrested near the western city of Aachen in connection with the investigation of the Paris attacks.
The dpa news agency quotes an unidentified police official as saying checks found that none had links to the attacks.
Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere had earlier told reporters authorities acted on a tip that one of those arrested might be a key suspect, "but sadly it's not the man that everyone hoped it would be."
6:40 p.m.
Germany's top security official says a Syrian passport found with one of the Paris attackers may have been false flag intended to make Europeans fearful of refugees.
Germany's interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, told reporters in Berlin that it was "unusual that such a person was faithfully registered in Greece, Serbia and Croatia, even though we're usually pressing for registration to take place and lament that it isn't always done properly."
He said the multiple registrations by a person using the passport were "evidence that this was a trail that was intentionally laid, but it can't be ruled out at the moment that this was an IS terrorist who came to France...via Germany as a refugee."
6:00 p.m.
Germany's top security official has downplayed possible links between arrests near the western city of Aachen and the investigation of the Paris attacks.
Police said SWAT teams arrested a man and two women in the town of Alsdorf on Tuesday after authorities received a tip from the public that the man might be Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect sought in the attacks. Police later arrested two more persons in the town.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told reporters in Berlin that it wasn't clear how the people might be linked to the Paris attacks, if at all, "but sadly it's not the man that everyone hoped it would be."
Austrian authorities say Abdeslam entered Austria from Germany on Nov. 9 — four days before the attacks — with two companions.
5:40 p.m.
French officials say they are seeking a second fugitive directly involved in the Paris attacks.
Three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details about the ongoing investigation, said Tuesday that an analysis of the series of attacks on Nov. 13 indicated that one person directly involved was unaccounted for.
Seven attackers died that night — three around the national stadium, three inside the Bataclan concert venue, and one at a restaurant nearby. A team of gunmen also opened fire at a series of nightspots in one of Paris' trendiest neighborhoods.
French and Belgian authorities have issued a warrant for one person, Salah Abdeslam, whose brother was among the attackers. The officials say the second fugitive has not been identified.
5:25 p.m.
Leaders in the U.S. Senate are gathering at the Capitol to sign a condolence book for the citizens of France following the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Sen. Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called France the United States' "longest ally and friend."
Gerard Araud, France's ambassador to the United States, says the French people have been very moved by the compassion that Americans have shown.
He says France and the United States are not only allies, but are friends, unfortunately facing the same threat.
5:25 p.m.
A couple has gone on trial in Britain accused of plotting to attack the London subway network or a large shopping mall with a bomb earlier this year.
Counter-terrorism officers were alerted to the plan after 25-year-old Mohammed Rehman allegedly asked Twitter followers for advice on which target to choose.
Rehman and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan are charged with preparing terrorist acts. Prosecutor Tony Badenoch says police found substantial quantities of chemicals and bomb-making equipment at Rehman's home when the couple was arrested in May.
Badenoch told a London court Tuesday that the couple had a common interest in violent Islamic ideology, were interested in the Islamic State group and had researched the bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7, 2005.
5:10 p.m.
The brother of Salah Abdeslam is calling for him to turn himself in.
Mohamed Abdeslam, who spoke to French TV BFM Tuesday, says his brother was devout but showed no signs of being a radical Islamist.
Abdeslam said: "Of course I call on him to turn himself over to the police. The best would be for him to give himself up so that justice can shed all the light on this."
Mohamed was arrested and questioned following the attack and was released Monday. He says his brother prayed and attended a mosque occasionally but dressed in jeans and pullovers and showed no signs of being a radical.
4:50 p.m.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have signed a book of condolence at the French Embassy in London, offering their sympathies for the victims of the attacks in Paris.
The visit by Prince William and the former Kate Middleton mark another effort by Britain's royal family to demonstrate their solidarity with the French people. The second-in-line to the throne is joining Prime Minister David Cameron at London's Wembley Stadium on Tuesday to watch a friendly soccer match between England and France.
Fans are being encouraged to sing the French national anthem before kickoff in an act of defiance against the Islamic State group, the perpetrators of the attacks. They lyrics will be displayed inside the stadium.
Enhanced security will be in place for the match.
4:34 p.m.
France wants to set up a "refuge" for antiquities from the Middle East to protect them from destruction by the Islamic State group or other zealots bent on wiping out centuries of art and culture they consider un-Islamic.
President Francois Hollande said the plan would offer "asylum" to artefacts threatened by "fanatics who are attacking the living and the dead, all who have humanity today and tomorrow, and those of yesterday."
Hollande announced the plan in a speech Tuesday at Unesco, the U.N.'s cultural agency.
The plan calls for French experts to work with local authorities — archaeologists and art experts if possible — to help remove works of art or other antiquities that can be moved and take them for safe-keeping in France.
The Sunni Muslim extremists in Syria have imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law across a self-declared "caliphate," declaring such ancient relics promote idolatry. They are also believed to sell looted antiquities, bringing in significant sums of cash.
Heritage sites have been damaged constantly since Syria's war began. Syrian government officials say they have transferred some 300,000 artifacts to safe places in recent years, including from IS-controlled areas.
4:30 p.m.
Pierre Moscovici, the European Union's top economy official, has suggested that France may get a sympathetic hearing within the European Commission if the country's budget plans deteriorate slightly in the coming months.
The French government has already indicated that it will boost spending on security measures, which will likely affect its budget plans.
Moscovici, who was President Francois Hollande's finance minister between 2012 and 2014, told reporters in Brussels that the "security of citizens in France and everywhere in Europe is the absolute priority and the Commission will certainly show full understanding for that priority."
He said flexibility is part of the rulebook that underpins the euro currency— the so-called Stability and Growth Pact, or SGP.
The SGP, he said, "is smart and able to adapt to all sorts of situations as they develop."
4:15 p.m.
Parisians are being encouraged to respond to Friday's attacks by defiantly continuing to eat, drink and be merry.
Bar and restaurant owners are urging people to return to their local nightspots Tuesday, relaying the message online and on social media with the slogan "Tous au bistrot" — Everyone to the bistro.
Many venues plan to hold a minute of silence at 9 p.m. local time (2000GMT) in honor of the 129 victims of the attacks, which targeted bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium.
French hoteliers, restaurateurs and bar owners fear the violence will hurt the city's lively nightlife.
The "tous au bistrot" message is backed by restaurant website Le Fooding, which says people should go out to pay tribute to the victims, support the food and drink industry and show that "France will not give in to fear."
Other Parisians are posting pictures on Twitter of themselves on the city's many cafe and restaurant patios, using the hashtag #JeSuisAuTerrasse — I'm on the patio.
4:05 p.m.
German police say they've arrested two more people near the western city of Aachen in connection with the investigation of the Paris attacks.
Police told the dpa news agency Tuesday of the additional arrests in the town of Alsdorf, northeast of Aachen and near the Belgian border.
They had no other details.
Earlier, a police SWAT team arrested two women and one man as they left a job center after receiving a tip from the public that the man might be a suspect in the attacks.
Police said the three were foreign nationals but provided no other details.
4:05 p.m.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, in a phone conversation with his French counterpart, has called for greater international cooperation in combatting the Islamic State group.
Rouhani spoke to French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, four days after attacks claimed by the IS group killed at least 129 people in Paris. Iran, which is helping local forces battle the IS group in neighboring Iraq, condemned the attacks.
A statement on Rouhani's website says he told Hollande that "eradicating terrorism from Syria and Iraq should be our first priority and we should consult and cooperate with each other in this area."
4 p.m.
Germany's foreign minister says his country will not take part in any air attacks against the Islamic State group in Syria.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after talks with his Cypriot counterpart Tuesday that "it doesn't make sense if we add to the 16 nations which are carrying out air attacks" in Syria.
Steinmeier said Germany's decision to provide weapons and military equipment to Kurdish fighters battling IS in northern Iraq "was the right strategy" because they have not only held the front line there, but also made "slight territorial gains."
4 p.m.
Jordan's King Abdullah II says "that both Europe and Islam are under attack from terrorists."
Abdullah, on a visit in Kosovo on Tuesday, said that "we are facing a Third World War, against humanity and this is what brings us all together. This is a war, as I've said repeatedly, within Islam."
He added, "Therefore we must act fast and holistically to tackle and respond to the interconnected threads, whether it is in this region, Africa, Asia or in Europe."
3:55 p.m.
French President Francois Hollande will travel to Washington and Moscow later this month to discuss ways of increasing international cooperation to smash the Islamic State group and settle the Syrian crisis. A statement from Hollande's office says he will meet U.S. President Barack Obama on Nov. 24 and Vladimir Putin on Nov. 26.
3:30 p.m.
Prime Minister David Cameron says the case for British military action against the Islamic State group in Syria has gained strength after the Paris attacks — though he stopped short of committing himself to trying a second time for Parliamentary approval.
Instead, he told lawmakers Tuesday that he would set out a "comprehensive strategy" to deal with the extremists, including making a case for airstrikes in Syria.
Cameron suffered a major defeat when he failed to secure Parliament approval for Syrian airstrikes in 2013, and he has said he would not try again unless he was sure of winning.
He told lawmakers that Britain cannot expect others to "carry the burden" of protecting Britons.
3:20 p.m.
Police in Paris say 16 people have been arrested in the region and detained since Sunday in relation to the attacks.
A Paris police statement on Tuesday said that there have also been 104 police raids, and six firearms have been seized since a state of emergency was declared on Saturday.
Police say that these arrests and raids are targeting "people, arms and objects likely to be linked to activities of a terrorist nature."
2:55 p.m.
Lawyers for two suspects behind bars in Belgium say their clients acknowledge going to France early Saturday and picking up third man who is now the target of an international manhunt.
Both men are being held on charges of terrorist murder and conspiracy.
Defense lawyer Xavier Carrette says Mohammed Amri, 27, denies any involvement in the attacks and says he went to Paris early Saturday to pick up a friend, 24-year-old Salah Abdeslam. Carrette says the only thing Amri admits "is having been in France to pick up a friend."
Carine Couquelet, who represents Hamza Attou, 21, says Amri drove his own car and that her client went along to keep Amri company. Couquelet says that around 4 a.m. Saturday, the pair picked up Abdeslam and they then returned to Brussels.
Belgian media say Amri and Attou are being investigated as potential suppliers of the suicide bombs used in Friday's attacks, since ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be used to make explosives, was discovered in a search of their residence.
The defense lawyers said they could not confirm those reports.
Salah Abdeslam's brother, Brahim, was among the suicide bombers in Paris.
2:35 p.m.
A small Danish company named ISIS is offering a year's worth of sugar-free treats as the prize in an online competition — launched three days after the Paris attacks — to find a new name.
ISIS is one acronym used for the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Spokeswoman Line Krogh Ellesgaard said Tuesday the company wants to "get away from the unfortunate associations that our name can create."
The company's name is from the Danish word for ice and the corporate abbreviation for a partnership company, I/S. The company makes sugar-free ice cream, cookies, sweets and chocolate.
2:20 p.m.
German police say they are questioning three people arrested near the western city of Aachen after a tip that one of them might be linked to the Paris attacks.
Police spokesman Werner Schneider says the trio were arrested Tuesday morning by a SWAT team in Alsdorf, just northeast of Aachen and near the border with Belgium.
The two women and one man were arrested as they left a job center at around 9:30 a.m., according to local media reports.
Schneider said on German news channel n-tv that it was "much too early to go into detail" about the identity of those arrested, but said they were foreign nationals.
He says police were conducting searches in the area.
2:05 p.m.
A high school class in New York state has canceled a class trip to Paris because of concerns over security.
Jim Thomas, a French teacher at Irondequoit High School near Rochester, tells WHAM-TV that he notified 26 students that the trip to Paris was called off after one of the French chaperones, a member of the military, told him it wasn't safe to go there.
The trip had been in the works for two years.
1:50 p.m.
Belgium is to deploy up to 300 extra soldiers to help provide security in major cities.
A government statement on Tuesday said the extra troops would allow police to take on additional duties since authorities raised the threat level over the weekend.
The move would bring the total number of troops in the streets to 520.
The Paris attacks on Friday are believed to have been partly organized in Belgium, and a number of police raids have been conducted in Brussels since then.
Police are particularly concerned about public safety at large gatherings like sports events, concerts or rallies.
1:40 p.m.
The Eiffel Tower has closed again, one day after it reopened following the Paris attacks.
Spokeswoman Marthe Ozbolt says the tower did not open Tuesday morning. She did not give a reason but alluded to the current situation in the city.
The landmark reopened to visitors Monday after being shut for two days after the Paris gun and bomb attacks that killed 129 people.
On Monday night it was lit in the red, white and blue of France's tricolor flag. Buildings around the world have shown the colors in a sign of solidarity with France.
1:40 p.m.
NATO is providing support to France in the wake of the Paris attacks but has not triggered a little-used defense clause that would mobilize the armies of member countries.
The secretary general of the world's biggest military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said Tuesday that "many NATO allies have offered France support and help, and we are doing so in many different ways."
He told reporters on Tuesday at an EU defense meeting in Brussels that NATO allies were sharing intelligence and working closely with France to fight the Islamic State group.
NATO's Article 5 has only ever been triggered once, by the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks. The article designates an attack on one of the 28 allies as an attack on them all.
1:35 p.m.
Austria's interior ministry says a key suspect sought in Friday's attacks in Paris is known to have entered the country about two months ago.
Ministry official Karl-Heinz Grundboeck identifies him as Salah Abdeslam. Grundboeck said Tuesday that Abdeslam entered Austria from Germany Sept. 9 with two companions he said were not identified.
Abdeslam, 26 is the suspected driver of one group of gunmen carrying out the attack. French police accidentally permitted him to avoid arrest at the border Saturday and cross to Belgium.
Abdeslam's brother, Brahim, was among the suicide bombers and killed one civilian when he blew himself up.
Grundboeck says Abdeslam's identity was established during a routine traffic check.
1:30 p.m.
A French judicial official says two brothers linked to the Paris attacks both rented residences in the days prior to Friday's carnage.
The official, who has knowledge of the case, told The AP that one of the Abdeslam brothers used an online rental site to book lodging at a long-stay hotel in the southeastern suburb of Alfortville Wednesday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak about the ongoing investigation.
The official said that the other brother rented a house in the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, the day before, on Tuesday Nov. 10.
The official could not identify which of the two brothers, Brahim Abdeslam, who died on Friday, or Salah Abdeslam, who is a fugitive, rented which residence.
—By Jamey Keaten
1:25 p.m.
German police say three people have been arrested near the western city of Aachen in connection to the Paris attacks.
The dpa news agency reported Tuesday that the three were arrested in the town of Alsdorf, just northeast of the city.
Local police did not immediately answer their telephones and no other information was available.
1:10 p.m.
Prime Minister David Cameron's office says he will join Prince William at the friendly soccer match between England and France in a show of solidarity with France after Friday's attacks.
Police in London promise a robust presence at Wembley Stadium on Tuesday to reassure the public. The match has been the subject of concern because the targets in Paris included Stade de France, where tens of thousands were watching Germany play France.
Scotland Yard says armed police officers will be visible — unusual in a country where many officers don't carry guns.
To underscore solidarity with France, British fans will be encouraged to sing the French national anthem.
12:55 p.m.
A lawyer for one of the two people arrested in Belgium in the wake of the Paris attacks says his client admits going to France, but says it was only to pick up a friend.
Defense lawyer Xavier Carrette told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his client, Mohammed Amri, 27, was arrested over the weekend and is being held on charges of terrorist acts and being part of a terrorist conspiracy.
Belgian media reports said Amri and another person arrested in the Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighborhood of Brussels, identified as Hamza Attou, are being investigated as potential suppliers of the suicide bombs used in Friday's attacks, since ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be used to make explosives, was discovered in a search of their residence.
12:50 p.m.
French Sports Minister Patrick Kanner has praised security officials at the Stade de France for keeping their nerve when faced with the attacks that hit Paris last week. He says a major tragedy had been avoided.
The Stade de France was packed with 79,000 fans when three attackers blew themselves up outside the venue, killing one bystander and injuring several dozen others.
Kanner, who attended the friendly game between France and Germany on Friday and returned to the stadium on Tuesday to thank its employees, said the decision to keep spectators inside after the blasts was decisive "because a Heysel-type panic could have happened."
Kanner referred to the former Heysel stadium in Brussels where 39 people died during fan violence at the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus.
12:50 p.m.
Germany's vice chancellor says "we must not change our lives" out of fear in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Speaking in a video podcast Tuesday, Sigmar Gabriel said Germany would improve border controls, deploy more police officers, and do everything possible to work with other European security agencies.
But he also says the "best defense against terror and violence" from the so-called Islamic state is to work prudently and with determination.
He says "we do not need new security laws, nor should we change our lives, our lives together, our culture, or our events out of fears of terrorism."
12:45 p.m.
Finland says it is "ready and willing to assist France with means available."
Prime Minister Juha Sipila wrote Tuesday on Twitter that the Nordic country will "abide by the mutual assistance clause," adding Finnish lawmakers already have been informed of the government's decision.
In Denmark, Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen said the Scandinavian EU member could not participate in a military operation within the European Union framework because of 1992 Danish defense opt-out. Jensen stressed Danes could take part if such calls were made within NATO or the United Nations.
12:35 p.m.
Two French officials say that a car found in northern Paris with Belgian license plates could be linked to Friday's attacks.
The black Renault Clio with a shattered front passenger window was discovered Tuesday near the commuter train line that links to France's national stadium, a site targeted by three suicide bombers.
It's unclear how the window was broken.
The officials refused to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.
It is the third car identified as having possible links to the Paris attacks.
—By Thomas Adamson
12:25 p.m.
London's police chief says he wants more officers to carry guns.
Moving to reassure Londoners following the Paris attacks, Bernard Hogan-Howe says he believes the city has the capability to thwart such attacks for now, but he is reviewing the number of armed police officers. Only about 2,000 of London's 32,000 officers carry firearms.
Hogan-Howe told LBC radio that "Paris showed us, with so many attackers with so many scenes, moving around at speed ... we need to have a mobile reserve."
He says he hopes soccer fans will be reassured by additional officers being deployed to the international friendly between England and France Tuesday night.
12:05 p.m.
A French official says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday to express his condolences in the wake of Paris attacks.
Rouhani pointed the "crucial importance to fight against terrorism and Daesh with all our might", the official says, speaking anonymously in line with government policy.
Both presidents agreed to quickly reschedule a visit by Rouhani to France.
Rouhani had planned to come for a two-day visit on Monday and Tuesday, but canceled following the attacks.
By Sylvie Corbet
11:55 a.m.
Poland's new defense minister says Poland is ready to "immediately" discuss any form of assistance that France may need in fighting terrorism.
Antoni Macierewicz was on his first foreign trip since taking office in the conservative government. He spoke to Polish reporters Tuesday in Brussels following EU defense ministers' talks.
Macierewicz said: "We treat the attackers as a criminal, felonious group and we will do everything to crush it."
11:50 a.m.
British police are appealing to Eurostar passengers for any witness accounts of Friday's deadly Paris attacks.
Train travelers from Paris to London are receiving Metropolitan Police pamphlets asking for witness accounts, photos, and video and cell phone footage from the scene.
Eurostar personnel were seen handing out the sheets Sunday night before the customs section of the St. Pancras International terminal.
Those with information are asked to make themselves known to police.
11:30 a.m.
A United Nations human rights expert says the attacks in Paris "may constitute a crime against humanity."
Karima Bennoune, a professor at the University of California-Davis School of Law appointed by the U.N. as an expert on cultural rights issues, said in a statement Tuesday that the claims of responsibility from the Islamic State demonstrate a "hateful worldview motivating this violence."
She says the attacks "viciously and deliberately targeted sites of arts and leisure where people come together to enjoy their cultural rights."
Bennoune says an attacker's cry of "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great," ''grossly misuses a religious pronouncement sacred to hundreds of millions of Muslim believers."
The implications of classifying the attacks as a crime against humanity were unclear.
It is likely that France would want to prosecute any suspects, in which case the International Criminal Court would not be involved. It's a court of last resort that takes cases only in situations where local authorities can't or won't prosecute.
11:05 a.m.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said EU partners could help "either by taking part in France's operations in Syria or Iraq, or by easing the load or providing support for France in other operations."
In the wake of the attacks in Paris, France has become the first nation to invoke an EU treaty provision to require all states to offer aid and assistance "as they are able."
11:00 a.m.
France is demanding security aid and assistance from the European Union in the wake of the Paris attacks and has triggered a never-before-used article in the EU's treaties to secure it.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Tuesday that member states had indicated their "full support and readiness to provide all the aid and assistance needed."
Article 42.7 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty states that if a member country "is the victim of armed aggression on its territory," other member states have an obligation of aid and assistance.
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