Obama leads chorus of world outrage over Paris attacks

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose country was hit by two major attacks in 2006 and 2008 that saw a total of 355 people killed, said on Twitter the “news from Paris is anguishing & dreadful”.

It will also work towards letting Singaporeans enjoy even more seamless travel to Australia, and paves the way for increased intelligence sharing to combat terrorism, greater access to military training areas in Australia, and collaboration on fighting cybercrime.

“There are no reports of any Australians killed or injured at this stage”.

“Turkey is going to be hit again”, he said.

“It’s opened itself up, opened up its borders perhaps in a foolish way, to vast networks of IS supporters and they’ve now got vast support networks there as well”.

Japan will work closely together with the worldwide community, including Australia, to fight terrorism, Abe said. The first of the seven gunmen to be identified was named as Ismael Omar Mostefai, a 29-year-old who lived in the city of Chartres, south-west of Paris.

Authorities are on high alert amid concerns Islamic State’s deadly assault on Paris could inspire similar attacks in Australia.

“One of the reasons France was first is there were networks (of IS supporters) established there and able to communicate on the ground”. The minister’s comments came as French warplanes pounded the IS stronghold in Syria’s Raqa, destroying a command post and a training camp. When quizzed about ground troops he said “this is not something that I think I should be giving public advice to prime ministers and presidents on”.

Bishop has been in contact with the other members of the national security committee.

“Clearly we have to strike a balance, and to show compassion, but that is hard as has been seen with the horrific events in Paris”, Mr Gulaptis said.

Australia has been warned of copycat style attacks.

Mr Turnbull condemned the violence and described the attackers as “mass murderers” and “barbarians”, who committed the “double crime” of defaming Islam.

“We simply can’t afford Malcolm Turnbull to be Tony Abbott in drag when it comes to taking action on climate change”, he said.

Ms Bishop addressed Australian media on Saturday morning as word broke from the French capital that up to 140 may have been killed in six separate attacks involving gunfire and explosives.

“We can’t pretend the risk is not there, but we have to recognise that the security agencies spend their days ensuring that these attacks do not occur”, he told ABC television on Sunday.