A string of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late on Friday left scores of people dead in the worst such violence in France's history. Follow our coverage of the Paris attacks.
President Francois Hollande said France’s constitution needed to be amended to better deal with crisis situations as he addressed both houses of parliament convened at Versailles.
Hollande said he wanted French law to allow dual nationals to be stripped of their French citizenship if they were convicted of terrorism and dual nationals to be banned from entering France if they presented a “terrorism risk”. He also pledged to increase budgets for security forces and the army.
France will also step up strikes in Syria Hollande said and called on the United Nations Security Council to rapidly issue a resolution against terrorism.
“In the mean time, France will intensify its operations in Syria,” Hollande said, describing the country as “the biggest factory of terrorists the world has known”.
In Turkey, world leaders vowed to boost intelligence-sharing, cut off terrorist funding and strengthen border security in Europe, as they sought to show resolve and unity following the deadly terror attacks in Paris.
“We agreed that the challenge can’t just be tackled with military mean, but only a multitude of measures,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations wrapped up a two-day summit.
Still, the leaders largely spoke of their agreements in broad strokes, with few specifics. Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasised the need to cut off the Daesh’s ability to generate revenue through oil smuggling.
Paris attacks suspect arrested: Belgian police
Paris: Belgian police have arrested Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam, officials said on Monday as French police searched several homes in the town of Bobigny, on the outskirts of the Paris, as part of their investigations into terror attacks that killed at least 129 people and injured over 350 others.
A Belgian public broadcaster, however, has denied that Abdeslam has been arrested.
The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, identified as Belgian Abdul Hamid Abaa Oud, is also linked to thwarted train and church attacks, a French official said.
Investigators are also looking Abdeslam's brother. Abdeslam, 26, rented the car that terrorists later took to the Bataclan theatre where majority of the people were killed.
Two more suicide bombers involved in the deadly attacks have been identified, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Monday.
Prosecutors said that one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall on 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.
France bombs Daesh
France launched "massive" air strikes on Daesh's de-facto capital in Syria on Sunday night, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned.
Twelve aircraft including 10 fighter jets dropped a total of 20 bombs in the biggest air strikes since France extended its bombing campaign against the extremist group to Syria in September, a Defense Ministry statement said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Arabian Gulf, in coordination with US forces.
On the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey on Sunday, France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said his country was justified in taking action in Syria.
"It was normal to take the initiative and action and France had the legitimacy to do so. We did it already in the past, we have conducted new airstrikes in Raqqa today, Fabius said. "One cannot be attacked harshly, and you know the drama that is happening in Paris, without being present and active."
Meanwhile, as police announced seven arrests and hunted for more members of the sleeper cell that carried out the Paris attacks, French officials revealed to The Associated Press that several key suspects had been stopped and released by police after the attack.
The arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old born in Brussels, calls him very dangerous and warns people not to intervene if they see him.
Yet police already had him in their grasp early Saturday, when they stopped a car carrying three men near the Belgian border. By then, hours had passed since authorities identified Abdeslam as the renter of a Volkswagen Polo that carried hostage takers to the Paris theater where so many died.
Three French police officials and a top French security official confirmed that officers let Abdeslam go after checking his ID. They spoke on condition of anonymity, lacking authorization to publicly disclose such details.
Tantalising clues about the extent of the plot have emerged from Baghdad, where senior Iraqi officials told the AP that France and other countries had been warned on Thursday of an imminent attack.
An Iraqi intelligence dispatch warned that Daesh group leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi had ordered his followers to immediately launch gun and bomb attacks and take hostages inside the countries of the coalition fighting them in Iraq and Syria.
Iraqi officials also said that a sleeper cell in France then met with the attackers after their training and helped them to execute the plan. There were 24 people involved in the operation, they said: 19 attackers and five others in charge of logistics and planning.
None of these details have been corroborated by officials of France or other Western intelligence agencies.
All these French and Iraqi security and intelligence officials spoke with the AP on condition of anonymity, citing the ongoing investigation.
Abdeslam is one of three brothers believed to be involved" One who crossed with him into Belgium was later arrested, and another blew himself up inside the Bataclan theater after taking the audience hostage and firing on them repeatedly. It was the worst of Friday's synchronised attacks, leaving 89 fatalities and hundreds of people wounded inside.
Daesh claimed responsibility. Its statement mocked France's air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, and called Paris "the capital of prostitution and obscenity."
In all, three teams of attackers including seven suicide bombers attacked the national stadium, the concert hall and nearby nightspots. The attacks wounded 350 people, 99 of them seriously.
Abdeslam rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by the hostage-takers, another French security official said. A Brussels parking ticket found inside led police to at least one of the arrests in Belgium, a French police official said.
Three Kalashnikovs were found inside another car known to have been used in the attacks that was found in Montreuil, an eastern Parisian suburb, another a French police official said.
As many as three of the seven suicide bombers were French citizens, as was at least one of the men arrested in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussells, which authorities consider to be a focal point for extremists and fighters going to Syria from Belgium.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon, speaking to The Associated Press by phone, said suspects arrested in Molenbeek had been stopped previously in Cambrai, France, "in a regular roadside check" but that police had had no suspicion about them at the time and they were let go quickly.
One, identified by the print on a recovered finger, was 29-year-old Frenchman Ismael Mostefai, who had a record of petty crime and had been flagged in 2010 for ties to Islamic radicalism, the Paris prosecutor said.
A judicial official and lawmaker Jean-Pierre Gorges confirmed his identity. A judicial official said police have also identified two other of the suicide bombers, both French nationals who'd been living in Belgium: 20-year-old Bilal Hadfi, who detonated himself outside the Stade de France" and 31-year-old Brahim Abdeslam, the brother of fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who blew himself up on the Boulevard Voltaire.
Police detained Mostefai's father, a brother and other relatives Saturday night, and they were still being questioned Sunday, the judicial official said.
These details stoked fears of homegrown terrorism in France, which has exported more jihadis than any other in Europe, and seen many return from the fight. All three gunmen in the January attacks on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris were French.
The attackers inside the Bataclan seemed quite young, according to one survivor, Julien Pearce, a journalist at Europe 1 radio who escaped by crawling onto the stage, and then out an exit door when the shooters paused to reload. Before making his final dash, he got a good look at one of the assailants, he said.
"He seemed very young. That's what struck me, his childish face, very determined, cold, calm, frightening," Pearce said.
Struggling to keep his country calm and united after an exceptionally violent year, President Francois Hollande met Sunday with opposition leaders - conservative rival and former President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as increasingly popular far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has used the attacks on Paris to advance her anti-immigrant agenda.
Refugees fleeing war by the tens of thousands fear the Paris attacks could prompt Europe to close its doors, especially after police said a Syrian passport found next to one attacker's body suggested its owner passed through Greece into the European Union and on through Macedonia and Serbia last month.
Paris remains on edge amid three days of official mourning. French troops have deployed by the thousands and tourist sites remain shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth. Panic ensued Sunday night as police abruptly cleared hundreds of mourners from the famed Place de la Republique square, where police said firecrackers sparked a false alarm.
"Whoever starts running starts everyone else running," said Alice Carton, city council member who was at the square. "It's a very weird atmosphere. The sirens and screaming are a source of fear."
Officers also moved in, guns drawn, after mourners panicked near the Carillon bar, where crowds have laid flowers and lit candles in memory of the 15 people killed there.
"Lots of people started running and screaming from the Carillon...tables were overturned, plates shattered. It was a terrible panic," said Jonathan Dogan, who took shelter in a nearby hotel. "I think people are terrified," Dogan said.
Second Paris suicide bomber identified: security source
PARIS: The body of a second suicide bomber involved in the Paris attacks has been identified, sources close to the investigation said Sunday, although it was unclear whether he was French or Belgian.
Both sources said he was one of three brothers involved in the attacks, and that his body was found at the Bataclan concert hall, the scene of the worst carnage where 89 people were gunned down.
Car linked to Paris attacks found as probe spreads
PARIS: French police found an abandoned car containing AK47 rifles on the outskirts of Paris, as the investigation into a series of attacks that killed at least 129 widened Sunday to five countries.
As the City of Light mourned its dead and world monuments were lit up in the red, white and blue of the French flag, authorities across Europe picked up suspects or launched probes.
French police discovered a black Seat car in the eastern suburb of Montreuil overnight that witnesses said was used by one of three groups of terrorists responsible for the worst attacks in French history.
Seven of the gunmen wearing suicide belts died in the bloodshed - at the national Stade de France sports stadium and in or around the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris.
But prosecutors say they believe three groups were involved in the carnage claimed by the Islamic State group.
Syrian passport in Paris travelled Balkans route
PARIS : Balkan authorities are tracking the travels of a man whose Syrian passport was found next to a dead suicide bomber at France's national stadium on Friday night.
Officials in Greece say the passport's owner entered the country on Oct. 3 through Leros, one of the eastern Aegean islands that tens of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty have been using as a gateway into the 28-nation European Union.
Serbian police say he registered at its border entry with Macedonia on Oct. 7.
Croatian police say he was checked at a refugee center on Oct. 8. Police spokeswoman Helena Biocic said Sunday the man was not flagged as suspicious and continued his journey toward Hungary and Austria.
It is still not yet clear if the Syrian passport is fake or real, or if it belonged to the dead bomber. European officials say there is a brisk trade in fake Syrian passports to help people get refugee status in the EU.
Three Kalashnikovs found inside car
A French police official says three Kalashnikovs have been found inside a Seat car that was used in the attacks on central Paris.
The official, who could not be named because the investigation is ongoing, said the weapons have not yet been analysed.
Two cars are known to be involved in the attacks that left 129 people dead and over 350 wounded: a Volkswagen Polo parked at the Bataclan concert hall and the Seat where the arms were found Sunday. The Seat appeared to be involved in the carnage at Paris bars and restaurants.
7 detained in Belgium
A Belgian official says seven people have been detained in Belgium linked to the Paris attacks.
The official, who spoke to The Associated Press in Brussels by phone, also said two of the seven attackers who died in Paris on Friday night were French men living in Brussels. He said one of the French attackers was living in the Molenbeek neighborhood, which is considered a focal point for religious extremism and fighters going to Syria.
The official said the seven people who were detained will hear later Sunday whether they will be held in custody longer.
He spoke on condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation.
Two attackers killed in Paris were Frenchmen who lived in Brussels: prosecutor
BRUSSELS: Two of the attackers who were killed in Paris were Frenchmen who had lived in Brussels, Belgian prosecutors said Sunday.
The federal prosecutors also said two of the vehicles used by the Paris attackers were rented in Belgium.
Six detained in Paris attacks probe
Paris: French police on Sunday detained relatives and friends of one of the seven gunmen and suicide bombers who killed at least 129 people in a wave of attacks in Paris claimed by Daesh, as the investigation widened.
The first attacker to be named was 29-year-old Omar Ismail Mostefai, who was identified from a severed finger among the carnage at the Bataclan concert hall, the scene of the worst of the bloodshed with 89 killed.
Police detained six people close to Mostefai, including his father, brother and sister-in-law, judicial and police sources said.
French police also found a black Seat car that witnesses said was used in shootings at a bar and restaurant by one group of the attackers.
The vehicle was recovered from Montreuil, in the eastern Paris suburbs and was being scoured for evidence.
The capital was strikingly quiet again on Sunday as residents struggled to come to terms with the latest shock, 10 months after jihadists hit satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a supermarket.
On the first of three days of national mourning, traditional open-air markets were cancelled under stringent security procedures and many people stayed at home.
'Three teams' identified in Paris attacks
French police have identified three teams of gunmen wearing suicide vests who killed at least 129 people in Paris's worst ever attacks.
A 29-year-old Frenchman was the first to be identified among the seven attackers, all of whom died in the assault, prosecutors said, while at least one man under investigation over the atrocities had registered as a Syrian refugee in Greece.
The discovery of a Syrian passport near the body of one attacker has raised suspicions some of them might have entered Europe as part of an influx of people fleeing Syria's civil war.
"We confirm that the (Syrian) passport holder came through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 where he was registered under EU rules," said the Greek minister for citizen protection, Nikos Toskas.
Gunman identified
The remains of the 29-year-old French gunman were found near the Bataclan concert hall in eastern Paris, the site of the bloodiest attack.
Police have since taken into custody the father and brother of the gunman and were searching their homes, a source close to the probe told AFP.
A total of 89 people were killed at the Bataclan by the armed men who burst in shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) before gunning down concert-goers and executing hostages.
The jihadists were heard raging at the French president and his decision in September to begin air strikes on Daesh targets in Syria.
The band on the Bataclan's stage during the attack, US rock group Eagles of Death Metal, survived but have cut short their European tour to return to the United States, promoters said.
As police stormed the venue, two of the gunmen blew themselves up, while the third was shot by police.
Three suicide bombers also detonated their explosives outside the Stade de France stadium where France were playing Germany in a football friendly attended by Hollande, who was evacuated.
The seventh attacker blew himself up on a bustling avenue near the concert hall, injuring one other person.
European investigation
The investigation spread beyond France on Saturday as Belgian police arrested several suspects in Brussels, including one who was in Paris at the time of the carnage.
The arrests - local media said three people were detained - were in connection with a vehicle found near the Bataclan concert hall, they said.
In Germany, the authorities said they were looking into a possible link between the attacks and the arrest in Bavaria last week of a man with a car-load of weapons and explosives.
The Paris attacks were "prepared, organised and planned overseas, with help from inside (France)," French President Francois Hollande said.
In Greece - the main entry point into Europe for hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing conflict and misery - police were investigating a possible Syrian connection to the Paris attacks, though they did not rule out that the Syrian passport may have changed hands before the assault.
World tightens security
World leaders responded to deadly attacks in Paris with defiant pledges of solidarity and Europe tightened security after Daesh said it was behind the assault by gunmen and bombers in the French capital.
From Barack Obama to Vladimir Putin and across Europe and the Middle East, leaders expressed their condolences to Hollande who said the attacks amounted to an act of war against France.
European neighbours including Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and Italy increased security. France temporarily imposed border controls.
London monuments including the London Eye and Tower Bridge were lit up in the red, white and blue of the French tricolour, as were Sydney's Opera House, the Taipei 101 skyscraper in Taiwan, the Senate building in Mexico City, One World Trade Center in New York and several other global landmarks.
In Los Angeles, police said they stepped up patrols at concerts and other places with large crowds.
Belgium imposed additional frontier controls on road, rail and air arrivals from France and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel asked Belgians on Saturday not to travel to Paris unless necessary.
Panama raised its terror alert level, ramping up security at its strategic canal, airports and other sensitive locations, the president said.
In Asia, the Philippines vowed “higher security” for world leaders at an economic summit in Manila next week. Leaders of US, China, Japan, Australia, Canada and 15 others at an annual Asia-Pacific Economic Conference summit in Manila on November 18 to 19.
Singapore raised its security alert level and said it stepped up security measures and border checks.
South Korea issued a travel advisory for its citizens to refrain from visiting Paris.
Death toll rises
Paris attacks death toll now 129, but will rise, says prosecutor.
Several foreigners have been identified as victims of Friday's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris:
BELGIUM: At least two victims, according to the Belgian foreign ministry.
ROMANIA: Two Romanian nationals, according to the foreign ministry in Bucharest.
TUNISIA: Two young Tunisians, sisters who lived in the centre-eastern French region of Creusot and who were celebrating in Paris a friend's birthday, according to the Tunisian foreign ministry.
BRITAIN: One Briton killed, a "handful" feared dead: government source
PORTUGAL: A 63-year-old Portuguese national, who lived in Paris and who worked in public transport, died near to the Stade de France sports stadium, according to the Portuguese authorities.
SWEDEN: Two Swedish citizens may be among the victims of the attacks, the foreign ministry says.
SPAIN: 29-year-old Alberto Gonzalez Garrido, according to the Spanish authorities, was attending a concert at the Bataclan theatre when it was attacked.
Belgian police arrest 'several people' after searches linked to Paris attacks
BRUSSELS: Belgian police on Saturday arrested several people during searches in a district of Brussels following a wave of attacks in Paris claimed by Islamic State, the Belgian justice minister said.
In a Twitter message, Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens said "multiple searches and arrests" had been made, and that they were related to a vehicle with a Belgian number plate.
A Belgian car was seen near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, according to witness accounts.
A Justice Ministry spokeswoman said she could not confirm the precise number of arrests or give any further details.
Paris attacks claim Tunisian sisters celebrating a birthday
TUNIS: Two Tunisian sisters living in France were among at least 128 people killed in Paris after travelling there to celebrate a birthday, officials and media said Saturday.
The women, aged 34 and 35, were from the Tunisian town of Menzel Bourguiba but living in Creusot in central France, foreign ministry spokesman Naoufel Laabidi said.
Mosaique FM radio identified them as Houda and Halima Ben Khalifa Saadi.
It said they were celebrating in one of the restaurants targeted by gunmen during the wave of shootings and bombings claimed by the Islamic State group.
Around 700,000 Tunisians live in France, the former colonial power in the North African country.
Police raid Brussels neighbourhood in link with Paris attacks: Belgian TV
BRUSSELS: Belgian police raided Saturday a neighbourhood of the capital Brussels in connection with the deadly attacks in Paris, public television RTBF reported.
Belgian police blocking a street during a police raid possibly in connection with the November 13 deadly attacks in Paris (AFP)
The network quoted an unidentified source as saying up to three raids were being carried out in the Molenbeek district in connection with the Paris attacks but police were not immediately available for comment.
RTBF said one man was arrested.
The French-language tabloid newspaper La Derniere Heure added that the raids were carried out to find evidence in homes of three young people who it claimed took part in the attacks.
In Paris, several witness reported that some of the attackers arrived in a vehicle with Belgian license plates.
The Belgian station RTL also said there were raids underway in Molenbeek without immediately linking them to the Paris attacks.
UN climate conference to go ahead near Paris despite attacks: France
PARIS: The UN climate conference will go ahead as planned near Paris later this month despite the terror attacks that killed 128 people in the French capital, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Saturday.
"COP21 must be held," Fabius said, using the conference's name, but he added security would be increased.
In Washington, an American official said President Barack Obama would participate in the meeting.
The November 30-December 11 meeting, taking place under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is being held at Le Bourget, on the northern rim of Paris.
France-bound plane evacuated at Schiphol airport after 'threats': police
THE HAGUE: A France-bound plane was evacuated in order to carry out a search before departing Amsterdam airport after "threats" against it were posted on Twitter, Dutch police said Saturday.
"We always take threats very seriously and we decided here to evacuate the passengers and to search the aircraft," police spokesman Dennis Muller told AFP, without making any links to the deadly Paris attacks.
Don't link Paris attacks to migrant influx: German interior minister
BERLIN: Germany's interior minister on Saturday made a plea against linking the terror attacks in Paris to the record influx of asylum seekers into Europe.
"I would like to make this urgent plea to avoid drawing such swift links to the situation surrounding refugees," Thomas de Maiziere said, after a crisis cabinet meeting on Friday night's attacks.
Poland won't accept refugees
WARSAW: Poland will not take in refugees under a hotly contested EU programme to distribute them among member states because of the Paris attacks, the country's incoming European affairs minister said on Saturday.
"The European Council's decisions, which we criticised, on the relocation of refugees and immigrants to all EU countries are part of European law," Konrad Szymanski wrote on right-leaning website wPolityce.pl.
But "after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them," he said.
"Poland must retain complete control of its borders, as well as its asylum and migration policy," Szymanski insisted.
300 hospitalised after Paris attacks, 80 in 'critical' condition
PARIS: Some 300 people were hospitalised following the deadly attacks in Paris of whom 80 are in "critical" condition, the city's hospital authority said Saturday.
Fifty-three people have already been discharged, the authority said in a statement, adding that the city's hospital system had the "necessary capacity" to handle the influx of patients from Friday's attacks, which left at least 128 dead.
Paris attacks evoke dark memories for Mumbai
MUMBAI: For residents of the bustling Indian city of Mumbai, the horrific attacks in Paris on Friday night carry sombre echoes of a bloody series of killings in their own city seven years ago.
A total of 166 people were killed in November 2008 when Islamist gunmen stormed luxury hotels, the main railway station, a Jewish centre and other sites in the booming metropolis, the financial heart of India. Read the report here.
Sweden confirms 1 death in Paris
PARIS: Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven says a Swedish citizen was killed in the Paris attacks, and there are unconfirmed reports of a Swede wounded by gunfire.
Lofven said Saturday "We have been in contact with the next of kin. They should of course know that the whole of the Swedish people and my sympathy is with them, our hearts are with you."
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Victoria Bell said a Swedish national may have gun wounds. She didn't give further details about his condition.
Parisians scramble to find missing friends
PARIS: Parisians desperate to get in touch with family and friends missing since Friday's coordinated attacks in Paris are taking to social media under the hashtag #rechercheparis - "Paris Search" in English - posting heartfelt messages and photos.
Scores of people that attended the six sites targeted in the attacks in which at least 127 people died are still unaccounted for.
One post reads: "Waleed is missing. We last contacted him at the match, Please share & contact me if u have any info. #rechercheParis".
Another: "I've been looking for my cousin since last night... He's 25 and 1m75. He's called Younes. #rechercheParis"
The photos and messages are garnering hundreds of retweets - from users eager to help in the search for survivors.
Eiffel Tower closed
The Eiffel Tower will be closed indefinitely following the wave of deadly attacks in Paris, the iconic landmark's operator said on Saturday.
The company decided to close the monument - normally visited by up to 20,000 people a day - after Friday's attacks which claimed at least 128 lives, a spokeswoman told AFP. It will remain closed "until further notice," she added.
Assad blames France's 'flawed' policy for attacks
BEIRUT/AMMAN: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad on Saturday condemned Friday's deadly attacks by Daesh in Paris but said the West's "flawed" policies in Syria, especially that of France, was partly to blame.
Daesh has claimed responsibility for a coordinated assault by gunmen and bombers that killed 128 people at locations across Paris. President Francois Hollande said the attacks amounted to an act of war against France.
France launched air strikes against Daesh in Syria in September, saying it wanted to prevent the group from carrying out attacks against French interests and protect Syrian civilians.
David Cameron says UK casualties expected
PARIS: British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned his nation to brace for casualties from the attacks in Paris, but he has left the nation's terror alert warning unchanged.
The British leader says the country "must be prepared for a number of British casualties" from the Paris atrocity. He condemned the "brutal and callous murderers". Cameron said Saturday that the terror threat level in the UK would remain at "severe," - the second-highest level - but that authorities would review plans amid an "evolving" threat from Islamic state.
Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with the Don Guanella charity organization
Pope Francis 'shaken' by 'inhuman' Paris attacks
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis said on Saturday he was "shaken" by what he described as the "inhuman" attacks on a string of Paris venues which left at least 128 people dead.
"I am shaken, I don't understand these things, done by human beings... There cannot be justification, religious or human. It's inhuman," an emotional pontiff said during a telephone interview with TG2000 television.
Grappling to find the right words, the Pope added: "I am with all those with suffer, and with France, which I love so much."
France suspends Schengen agreement
France has suspended the Schengen agreement and imposed border controls, reports say.
The move by the French Government is temporary and the country will suspend its participation in the Schengen Agreement for a month starting November 13. This precaution was taken to decrease the likelihood of another terror attack which occurred on Friday night.
Worst violence in France's history
Paris: A string of coordinated attacks in and around Paris late on Friday left scores of people dead in the worst such violence in France's history.
On Saturday, police sources said the death toll had risen to 128, with 180 people injured, 80 of them in critical condition. The death toll does not include at least eight militants killed during the attacks.
Investigation underway
Police said a Syrian passport was found on the body of a suicide bomber at the Paris stadium. A French official told reporters there was "reason to believe" a man arrested in Germany is linked to the Paris attackers. Paris prosecutors earlier said their investigation would allow them to see if any "accomplices or co-authors are on the loose" after Friday's attacks.
Daesh claims responsibility
Daesh on Saturday claimed responsibility for the attacks. In an official statement, the group said its fighters strapped with suicide bombing belts and carrying machine guns carried out the attacks in various locations in the heart of the capital which were carefully studied.
France bans public demos
Meanwhile, Paris city authorities called on residents to stay at home after the deadly attacks in at least six places across the French capital. All public demonstrations have been banned in Paris region until Thursday following the terror attacks, police say.
Hollande: attacks were 'act of war'
French President Francois Hollande, speaking to the nation, said the attacks on Friday were "an act of war."
He said the attacks on a stadium, concert hall and Paris cafe diners were "committed by a terrorist army, [Daesh], a jihadist army, against France, against the values that we defend everywhere in the world, against what we are: A free country that means something to the whole planet."
He said France "will be merciless toward the barbarians of [Daesh]." France "will act by all means anywhere, inside or outside the country."
UAE's Gargash says more must be done to combat terror
Reacting to news of deadly attacks in Paris, Dr Anwar Mohammad Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs, said on Twitter on Saturday that more must be done to combat terrorism.
"The terrorist outrage in Paris proves that much more must be done to combat extremism and terrorism by all of us. None is immune," he posted on Twitter. Read more
Witnesses tell of 'bloodbath'
Terrified survivors from the Paris concert hall targeted during Friday's attacks have described running over bodies and hiding after gunmen stormed the venue and began executing rock fans with barrages of automatic gunfire.
Pierre Janaszak, a radio presenter, was sitting in the balcony with his sister and friends when they heard shots from below about one hour into the concert by US rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
"At first we thought it was part of the show but we quickly understood," he told AFP.
"They didn't stop firing. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. We heard screaming. Everyone was trying to flee."
Janaszak and his friends hid in a toilet where they would spend the next two hours waiting for police to storm the building and rescue the survivors. Around 80 people are believed to have died in the assault.
"They had 20 hostages, and we could hear them talking with them," said Janaszak.
"I clearly heard them say 'It's the fault of Hollande, it's the fault of your president, he should not have intervened in Syria'. They also spoke about Iraq."
'10 horrific minutes'
Another radio reporter described the "10 horrific minutes" when the black-clothed gunmen calmly opened fire. "It was a bloodbath," Julien Pearce, a reporter for France's Europe 1 radio station, told CNN.
"People yelled, screamed and everybody lying on the floor, and it lasted for 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 horrific minutes where everybody was on the floor covering their heads."
"We heard so many gunshots and the terrorists were very calm, very determined and they reloaded three or four times."
"People started to try to escape, to walk on people on the floor and try to find the exits, and I found an exit when the terrorists reloaded their guns. I climbed on the stage and we found an exit," said Pearce.
The journalist said he took a teenage girl who was bleeding heavily and carried her to a taxi, telling the driver to take her to hospital. He said he saw the face of one gunman, who was probably 20 to 25 years old.
"We heard people screaming - the hostages particularly - and the threats from the kidnappers shouting 'Look at me!'" added another survivor, 34-year-old Charles.
Along with around 20 others, he fled to a toilet where they pushed through the ceiling and hid in the crawl space.
A missing fiancee
But others face an agonising wait to hear from loved ones lost during the chaos.
"My friend Claire was celebrating her best friend's birthday at the concert. We don't have any news, the phones are going to answer machine," said Yvan Pokossy, a 24-year-old party organiser.
"I'm supposed to get engaged to her in three weeks. I don't know if I'll ever see her again." Marielle Timme hid in a bathroom for close to three hours before being rescued by police. "What scared us the most was that the last terrorist was killed just near us so we heard all the conversation and gunfire. The bombs, too. We didn't dare open the door to the police, because we didn't know if it was them or the terrorists."
"There's nothing but the sound of gunfire and carnage running through my head," said another young woman who hid in a side room with around 25 people. "We had one chance in two of taking a bullet," she said, shaking.
Global condemnation
World leaders joined a chorus of global condemnation of a wave of attacks in Paris as nations pledged solidarity with France and others stepped up security efforts. Iran's Hassan Rouhani branded the Paris attacks as "crimes against humanity". Rouhani also postponed a planned trip to Europe after the attacks, an official said.
The assailants struck at least six different venues, ranging from the national sports stadium to a pizzeria. Paris prosecutors said their investigation would allow them to see if any "accomplices or co-authors are on the loose" after Friday's attacks.
An initial investigation has been opened for "killings in relation to a terrorist enterprise", said chief prosecutor Francois Molins.
Witnesses said that scores of people were massacred by attackers during a rock concert and others in a suicide bombing near the national stadium. Witnesses said the attackers shouted "Allahu akbar" and blamed France's military intervention in Syria as they sprayed bullets into the crowd. Earlier on Friday, the United States and Britain said they had launched an attack in the Syrian town of Raqqa on a British Daesh militant known as "Jihadi John" but it was not certain whether he had been killed.
Attackers killed
A total of eight militants were killed, including seven by their suicide belts, during Friday's attacks in Paris that left at least 120 dead, a source close to the investigation said.
Four of the attackers were killed in the Bataclan concert hall, three by activating their suicide vests and one shot by police. Three more died near the national stadium and a fourth was killed in a street in eastern Paris.
Scene at Bataclan concert hall
A full house of 1,500 people were packed into the popular venue in eastern Paris for a concert by the US band Eagles of Death Metal. About an hour after the band took to the stage, the whole concert hall was turned into "a bloodbath" according to a French radio reporter at the scene.
Black-clad gunmen wielding AK-47s stormed into the hall and fired calmly and methodically at hundreds of screaming concert-goers. Fellow radio presenter Pierre Janaszak heard the first shots and thought it was part of the act.
"But we quickly understood. They were just firing into the crowd."
He said he heard an attacker say, "It's the fault of Hollande, it's the fault of your president, he should not have intervened in Syria."
Four assailants were killed after police stormed in - three by activating their suicide vests and a fourth shot dead - but not before they had mown down some 100 people.
French fire brigade members aid an injured individual near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France on Friday. - Reuters
Scene at Stade de France
Three loud explosions were heard outside France's national stadium during the first half of a friendly international football match between France and Germany.
At least five people died outside the glittering venue which staged the 1998 World Cup final with several others seriously hurt. One of the explosions was near a McDonald's restaurant on the fringes of the stadium.
At least one of the two explosions in rue Jules-Rimet was a suicide bomb attack. French President Francois Hollande, who was watching the game, was immediately evacuated.
The match was eventually completed and the stadium emptied in a relatively calm atmosphere.
Scene at Rue Bichat
Pierre Montfort lives close to a Cambodian restaurant on Paris' Rue Bichat, a little further north, was the scene of another attack. "We heard the sound of guns, 30-second bursts. It was endless. We thought it was fireworks," he said.
Florence said she arrived by scooter a minute or so after.
"It was surreal, everyone was on the ground. No one was moving inside the Petit Cambodge restaurant and everyone was on the ground in bar Carillon," she said. "It was very calm - people didn't understand what was going on. A young girl was being carried in the arms of a young man. She seemed to be dead."
Scene at Rue de la Fontaine au Roi
A few hundred metres from the Bataclan, the terrace of the Casa Nostra pizzeria was targeted. Five people were killed by attackers wielding automatic rifles, according to witness Mathieu, 35.
"There were at least five dead around me, others in the road, there was blood everywhere. I was very lucky."
French police secure the area outside a cafe near the Bataclan concert hall following fatal shootings in Paris, France, November 13, 2015. - Reuters
Scene at Rue de Charonne
A little further east on Rue de Charonne 18 people were killed, with one witness saying a Japanese restaurant was the main target. "There was blood everywhere," the witness said. Another man said he heard shots ring out, in sharp bursts, for two or three minutes. "I saw several bloody bodies on the ground. I don't know if they were dead," he said.
Scene at Boulevard Voltaire
A judicial source said one of the attackers exploded his suicide vest on the Boulevard Voltaire, near the Bataclan. It is not yet known if there were any injuries from the explosion.
State of Emergency and world reaction
French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency across France, closing borders after the Paris attacks.
Intelligence sources say French the border was closed out of concern Daesh may have infiltrated migrants flooding Europe and that recent intelligence warned of it.
Hollande said 1,500 soldiers is being deployed around city.
Following the attacks, Hollande and US President Barack Obama vowed to reinforce their counter-terrorism cooperation. Belgian authorities said they have boosted checks on their borders, especially with France.
The Philippines on Saturday vowed "higher security" for world leaders at an economic summit in Manila next week, while Singapore on Saturday raised its security alert level.
In London, UK Prime Minister David Cameron (@David_Cameron) said: “I am shocked by events in Paris tonight. Our thoughts and prayers are with the French people. We will do whatever we can to help.”
EU Commission President Juncker (@JunckerEU): I am deeply shocked by the events in Paris. We stand in solidarity alongside the French.
In Washington, Obama said: “This is an attack on all of humanity.” He added: “ We don't yet know all the details on Paris attacks; we are in contact with French officials, situation still unfolding.”
Streets were cordoned off near Bataclan concert hall in Paris.
With input from agencies
