3rd body- a woman- found at Paris raid scene

Prosecutors in France say a third body was found at the scene of a Paris suburb raid linked to last week's deadly terror attacks.

The body is reportedly that of a woman.

French authorities say police have conducted 793 raids since last week's attacks on a rock concert, Parisian cafes and the national stadium.

The new tally was announced Friday by the Interior Ministry.

Last night alone, police reported performing 182 raids, detaining 17 people, and seizing 76 weapons plus drugs.

After five nights of raids, authorities says police have detained 90 people and seized 174 weapons, including 18 military-style firearms, 84 rifles and 68 handguns.

In addition, 164 people have been placed under house arrest with new powers permitted under France's state of emergency. Police also seized 250,000 euros.

The Senate is expected to vote Friday afternoon to extend the state of emergency for three more months.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says that EU interior and justice ministers have assigned the EU's executive Commission to draw up a proposal for the Schengen free-travel zone to allow for "the systematic control" of all people entering through the bloc's external borders.

Cazeneuve said such controls would be "a crucial change" since the external borders of the EU are still considered far too porous to prevent foreign fighters from returning home from Syria and Iraq.

A senior Greek security official says there is no record of the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, passing through the country, which is at the forefront of Europe's immigration crisis.

The officials said "it is reasonable to think that someone setting off from the Middle East (for Europe) would go through Greece or Italy." However, he says no Greek agency has a record of Abaaoud's presence.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly, said he could not rule out Abaaoud's having entered the country on a fake passport.

A European Union official says members have agreed to "considerably strengthen" means for the 28 nations to cooperate to combat violent extremism.

Luxembourg Justice Minister Etienne Schneider, who chaired the emergency meeting, said quick and strengthened action "is not an option but an obligation."

He says EU nations assigned the EU Commission to look at changes in the Schengen border system to make sure loopholes are closed.

Belgium is keeping in custody two of the nine people detained during a spate of raids on Thursday.

One person was linked to stadium suicide bomber Bilal Hadfi in an investigation that was not direcly related to the Paris attacks last Friday. Another suspect, who was detained in relation to the Paris attacks, also had his custody extended by a day.

The seven others, including one whose detention was linked to Paris, were let go, a statement from the proscecutor's office said.

No other details were released.

France's army recruitment spokesman says the number of people wanting to join up has tripled since the Paris attacks.

Col. Eric de Lapresle told Le Monde newspaper that the number of people inquiring through the army website has gone from 500 to 1,500 a day since the Nov. 13 carnage that killed 129 people.

He says it's a "totally new phenomenon."

He says applications had already gone up from about 150 a day after attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in Paris in January.

The French army currently has almost 112,000 troops and 8,400 civilian employees.

After last week's attacks, President Francois Hollande froze plans to cut more than 9,000 troops by 2019.

A French security official says the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was seen on surveillance camera in the subway around the time of the shootings and suicide bombings in cafes, a rock concert and a stadium.

The official, not authorized to be publicly named discussing an ongoing investigation, says Abdelhamid Abaaoud was seen at the Croix de Chavaux metro station in the suburb of Montreuil at 10:14 p.m. on Nov. 13.

Teams of attackers started the violence at 9:20 p.m. at the national stadium north of Paris, then started firing on Paris cafes a few minutes later.

The metro station where Abaaoud was seen is not far from where police later found a Seat car believed used by the attackers.

Prosecutors say Abaaoud was killed in a police raid north of Paris on Wednesday.

French artists and cultural figures are calling for people to mark a week since the start of the Paris attacks with an outpouring of "noise and light."

The call is going out on social media under the Twitter hashtag 21h20 -- or 9:20 p.m., the time the attacks began on Nov. 13.

A letter in the Huffington Post is signed by dozens of artists, writers, musicians and other cultural figures, including singer Charles Aznavour, journalist Anne Sinclair and former French Culture Minister Jack Lang.

It says the killers' attack on "culture and freedom" should unite people of all races, faiths and backgrounds.

The letter calls for people to turn on lights, light candles and play music so that the attackers "will understand that they have lost." The writers hope the gesture will show, "that culture will continue to shine out and to burnish the light of hope and fraternity."

The Paris prosecutor's office says that a third body was found overnight in an apartment raided by police searching for suspects in last week's Paris attacks.

The office said in a statement Friday that the body is that of a woman but her identity is unclear.

Prosecutors earlier identified one of the others killed in Wednesday's raid in Saint-Denis as suspected mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

Under gray skies and rain, Paris is marking a week since the deadly attacks with silence and reflection.

Most demonstrations have been banned in Paris since the attacks, but Parisians have been spontaneously gathering outside the restaurants, cafes and concert halls hit in the attacks all week to leave flowers, light candles or hold quiet vigils.

A demonstration planned for Friday at France's oldest mosque to show inter-community solidarity after the attacks was canceled for security concerns.

Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked cafes, restaurants and the national soccer stadium on the evening of Nov. 13, killing 129 people and injuring more than 350.

The attacks, claimed by the Islamic State group, were the deadliest violence in Paris since World War II.