EU ministers hold emergency talks Friday on tightening border checks after the killing of the ringleader of the Paris attacks in an apartment in the French capital raised troubling questions about the bloc's security. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin suspected of masterminding the attacks that left 129 people dead in the name of the Islamic State group, died in Wednesday's assault by police on an apartment in northern Paris. The 28-year-old was thought to have been in Syria -- where he had boasted of planning attacks on the West -- and his presence in France has raised questions about Europes handling of the region's worst migrant crisis since World World II....
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