The Islamic State jihadist suspected of orchestrating the Paris attacks was killed in a major police raid in the French capital, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, raising troubling questions about a breakdown in intelligence and European border security.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin linked to a series of extremist plots in Europe over the past two years, died in Wednesday's assault by elite police units on an apartment in northern Paris.

Some 100,000 Bhutanese refugees have been resettled in Western countries from camps in Nepal where they have been living for two decades after being forced out of their homeland, the U.N. said Thursday.

The refugees have been offered new lives in the United States and other nations after the failure of years of negotiations to secure their return to Bhutan, which says they are illegal immigrants.

French leader Francois Hollande has donned the cloak of war chief after the Paris carnage, but has come under fire from the right-wing opposition for wasting time since attacks in January.

A semblance of political unity after the devastating attacks on Friday which left 129 dead has quickly unravelled in a marked shift in the mood seen after attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket 10 months ago.

The longtime owner until two months ago of the Bataclan concert hall, site of the worst of last week's Paris attacks and where some of rock's edgiest names have played, hopes it lives on as a free-spirited venue.

Joel Laloux sold the music hall in September after running it for nearly 40 years and now lives in Israel, where he learned of Friday's hostage-taking and massacre during a rock concert there.

In the Brussels bar they ran before the authorities closed it down for being a drug den a few weeks ago, brothers Brahim and Salah Abdeslam were known to be fond of drink and a joint, according to friends.

As they drank their beer in Les Beguines, their nightspot in the Belgian capital's largely immigrant Molenbeek area, there was no sign in their behavior that they were radical Islamists who would take part in the Paris attacks.

Chad's parliament has decided to prolong a state of emergency in the southern Lake Chad region, prey to bomb attacks by the Nigerian Islamists of Boko Haram, a parliamentary source said Thursday.

The resolution was unanimously passed on Wednesday night by 147 members of parliament and will extend the special powers given to regional authorities until March 22, 2016.

Russia and China have agreed on the sale of 24 advanced Sukhoi Su-35 fighters to Beijing, the Russian state holding Rostec said on Thursday.

The deal -- which military experts say could be worth more than $2 billion (1.87 billion euros) -- represents the first time a foreign state has purchased the Su-35. 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called for a united front by Muslim leaders to fight extremism after the Paris attacks, warning that otherwise jihadists will commit further atrocities. 

Erdogan warned that "calamities will happen again" if the rise of radical Islam is not halted in Europe, after the Paris attacks last Friday claimed by the Islamic State group which killed 129 people and suicide bombings in Ankara that left 103 dead in October 10.

A Libyan man has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to murder a British policewoman who was shot dead outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984, the police said on Thursday.

Police said this was "the first significant arrest" of the investigation into the killing of 25-year-old Yvonne Fletcher, which led Britain to sever diplomatic relations with Libya.

Croatia has refused a request from Slovenia to take back migrants who have crossed the countries' shared border and are not fleeing war, a police spokesman told Agence France Presse Thursday.

"Slovenia asked us for the re-admission of 162 people. We did not accept that and have informed our neighbours about everything," Croatian police spokesman Domagoj Dzigumovic told AFP.