View gallery Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins holds a press conference in Paris on November 18, 2015 (AFP Photo/A … 
 
 The police assault was launched at 4:20am (0320 GMT), putting Saint-Denis on lockdown as helicopters buzzed in the sky and snipers took up position on rooftops. Police say two suspects in last week's Paris attacks, a man and a woman, have been killed in a police... (Associated Press) 
 
 A soldier walks through Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. Molins says heavily armed police squads initially were thwarted by a reinforced door to the apartment in Saint-Denis north of Paris where the terror cell had holed up, and faced nearly incessant fire as they worked to enter. The two European officials from different countries, who have followed the case closely, said they had received the information about Abaaoud’s death from French authorities. The siege appeared to have been aided by another potential breakthrough in the probe: the discovery of a mobile phone in a garbage can near the Bataclan concert hall, the site of one of Friday’s assaults. ___ 
 
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 French lawmakers are paying tribute to police and security forces involved in the raid of a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's deadly attacks in Paris was believed to be hiding. Molins said a discarded cellphone helped identify safe houses used by attackers to plan Friday’s coordinated assaults, which killed 129 people and wounded more than 350 in a series of attacks at a stadium, a concert hall and restaurants across Paris. Speaking outside the building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, he says "I learned it was at my place, and the individuals barricaded themselves in my place ...I didn't know they're terrorists." He says "I don't know where they come from ... ___ 
 
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 Sweden's security service says it has raised the Scandinavian country's terror alert to the second-highest level. Francis' personal security detail was nearly doubled during his Wednesday general audience, and the carabinieri were out in force in St. Peter's Square. __ 
 
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 Overnight raids by French police across France have resulted in 25 arrests and the seizure of 34 weapons. That brought to 414 the number of raids launched throughout France since Friday, the Interior Ministry said. ___ 
 
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 A Spanish security official says French authorities have sent out a bulletin to police across Europe asking them to watch out for a Citroen Xsara car that could be carrying Salah Abdeslam, the fugitive wanted in the Paris attacks 
 
 The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of department rules preventing the official from being named. The message was sent at 9:42 pm, before the attack on the Bataclan, Molins said, adding that police were investigating who the message was sent to. In Copenhagen, a terminal at the Danish capital’s international airport was briefly evacuated after “an overheard conversation about a bomb,” police said in a Twitter post. The airport said Terminal 3 was reopened but check-ins had been moved to Terminal 2 and delays were to be expected. [LIVE updates from Paris and elsewhere] 
 
 Paris prosecutor François Molins, speaking to reporters hours after the siege, said he could not provide the identities of the people killed at the scene. ___ 
 
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 French President Francois Hollande says France is 'at war' against terrorism by the Islamic State group. “We are at war against terrorism, terrorism which declared war on us,” Hollande said at a meeting of French mayors. On Tuesday, authorities in Hanover, Germany, abruptly called off a friendly soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands that Chancellor Angela Merkel had planned to attend, officials said. But yesterday it was taken in favor of security, and that's right." ___ 
 
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 Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says authorities are working to determine the fate of the suspected mastermind of last week's Paris attacks after a seven-hour police raid on an apartment where he was believed to be hiding. Francois Molins says the police began the raid Wednesday after gathering information that suspect Abdelhamid Abaaoud could be in a safe house apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. A gargantuan probe undertaken since the Friday attacks saw police pore over video footage, telephone surveillance and witness reports which led them to the apartment in the poor multi-ethnic suburb of Saint-Denis. He said that neither Abaaoud nor another wanted suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was among eight people who were arrested at the apartment and surrounding locations on Wednesday. The two officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. Several police were injured and seven people were arrested. View gallery Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian suspected of orchestrating the Paris attacks, pictured in a February … 
 
 Another body "riddled with bullets" was found in the debris, but the state of the corpse did not allow for it to be identified. The National Police said in a tweet that a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois named Diesel, a SWAT team assault dog, was "killed by terrorists" during the raid in Saint-Denis, north of Paris. Three suspects were arrested inside the building, while outside police took into custody a man who lent the apartment to the jihadists and a woman accompanying him. It has killed here.” 
 
 He renewed his case to extend a state of emergency decreed after the attacks and to make changes to the constitution that he said would make France safer. Therefore, Molins said: "I am not able to give you a precise number and identity of those killed. More than 100 police officers and soldiers stormed an apartment building in Saint-Denis, a bustling suburb home to many immigrants, during a seven-hour siege that left at least two people dead, officials said. —By Jamey Keaten 
 
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 Police say two suspects in last week's Paris attacks — a man and a woman — have been killed in a police operation north of the capital. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) 
 
 The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks was killed Wednesday in a massive pre-dawn raid by French police commandos, two senior European officials said, after investigators followed leads that the fugitive Islamic State militant was holed up north of the French capital and could be plotting another wave of violence. Authorities in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis have evacuated about 20 residents from a building where suspects linked to the Paris attacks are holed up in a standoff with police. Witnesses documented the flood of police into the historic suburb as the raid grew. [How officials may have missed their chance to stop Paris terror suspects ] 
 
 After the raid, forensics experts combed through blown-out windows and floors collapsed by explosions, presumably seeking DNA and other evidence. "Very sustained gunfire continued for nearly an hour," he said, adding that "the complex nature of the operation required the use of assault rifles, snipers and explosives." But Belgian officials said there was no indication that the brothers were going to get involved with terrorism, so they were released. The blood of the terrorists.” 
 
 Residents were evacuated or instructed to stay inside their homes.
– Paris prosecutor Francois Molins gave new details on the police raid on an alleged ISIS terror cell just north of Paris in a press conference Wednesday. Some highlights : Molins said about 5,000 rounds were fired by police during an hourlong gunfight between heavily armed police and those inside the Saint-Denis hideout, the AP reports. Investigators found "a total war arsenal" of Kalashnikovs, ammo, and explosives, per the Guardian. Law enforcement was bombarded with gunfire as they tried to fight their way in through a reinforced door, the AP notes. There's confusion whether alleged mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was among those killed in the raid. Molins said during the press conference that two suspects were dead and eight arrested, though he said he can't yet ID them, per the Guardian. He added that neither Abaaoud nor Salah Abdeslam were among those arrested. But two anonymous senior EU intelligence officials tell the Washington Post that Abaaoud was indeed killed during the siege and that forensic experts had gathered evidence at the scene after the chaos had ended. The suspected terror cell was caught just in time, per authorities. "A new team of terrorists was neutralized and all indications are that given their arms, their organizational structure, and their determination, the commando could have struck," Molins said, per AFP.