"I will meet in the coming days with US President Obama and President Putin," also saying that France will intensify operations in Syria.
Belgian authorities have charged two people who were arrested after the Paris attacks with involvement in terrorism, prosecutors said Monday.
The pair were charged "with a terrorist act and participation in the activities of a terrorist group", while five others detained at the weekend were freed without charge, the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Belgian police said the two were accused of "participating in a terrorist attack".
The Islamic State released a video Monday warning countries involved with strikes in Syria that they face same fate as Paris, and specifically threaten Washington. The video has not been independently verified...
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French President Francois Hollande said on Monday France was at war against cowards, and not in a clash of civilisations, after militant attacks killed at least 129 people in and around Paris last week...
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It was the first time in more than six years that a French president addressed both houses of parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly, convened in a so-called Congress at Versailles. It is a procedure reserved for constitutional revisions and major presidential speeches.
"Our democracy has triumphed before over adversaries that were much more formidable than these cowards," Hollande told the legislators in the former royal palace.
Hollande also said France will step up strikes in Syria where Friday's shootings and suicide bombings in Paris had been planned, Hollande 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," he said.............http://www.todayszaman.com/world_hollande-says-france-at-war-against-cowards-not-civilisations_404457.html