President Francois Hollande called the terror attack that killed 127 people in Paris on Friday night an “act of war” against France by Islamic State militants. The coordinated assaults on cafes, a soccer match and a concert hall were carried out “by a terrorist army,” Hollande said in a televised address to the nation on Saturday morning. France declared a national state of emergency, and ordered cultural and tourist sites closed after the assaults, in which men armed with suicide belts and Kalashnikovs struck seven locations in and around the capital in rapid succession.

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