The Islamic State jihadist suspected of orchestrating the Paris attacks was killed in a major police raid, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, as French lawmakers extended emergency powers imposed after the carnage. 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. A second person also died in the raid, but their identity remains unclear. The 28-year-old Abaaoud was thought to have been in Syria -- where he had boasted of planning attacks on the West -- and his presence in France raises troubling questions about a breakdown in...
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