国际英语新闻:France Hunts 2nd Fugitive Linked to Paris Attacks

Also Tuesday, investigators identified the voice of a French jihadi convert, Fabien Clain, 36, of Toulouse, on the Islamic State claim of responsibility for the Paris strike. Clain is suspected of having been behind a failed attack on a church in the Paris suburb of Villejuif early this year.

In a rare address to both houses of France’s parliament in Versailles on Monday, Hollande said Friday's "acts of war … were decided and planned in Syria, prepared and organized in Belgium, [and] perpetrated on our soil with French complicity."

Hollande called on the United Nations Security Council to rapidly issue a resolution against terrorism. He also called for building a coalition to defeat IS.

In addition to meeting with Obama, Holland's office said Tuesday he would meet on Nov. 26 with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country confirmed Tuesday that terrorism caused the crash of a Russian airliner over Egypt.

EU response

The French government invoked a never-before-used article of the EU's Lisbon Treaty obliging members of the 28-nation bloc to give "aid and assistance by all the means in their power" to a member country that is "the victim of armed aggression on its territory."

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said all 27 of France's EU partners responded positively.

In Geneva, the United Nations urged European countries to refrain from blaming or demonizing refugees following the attacks in Paris.

"We are concerned about reactions by some states to end the programs being put in place, backtracking from commitments made to manage the refugee crisis or proposing the erection of more barriers," U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.

Speed up screening

Speaking on French radio Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said authorities still don’t know if there are accomplices in France and Belgium – or the number of people involved in the attacks, suggesting there may be other assailants on the loose.

Meanwhile, security in France has been sharply ramped up.

Soldiers have been patrolling Paris streets for months – ever since the last set of terrorist attacks, in January. The government now says about 115,000 police, gendarmes and military are mobilized across the country.