World leaders vow to seek comprehensive climate deal

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orld leaders have vowed to seek a comprehensive climate deal at the upcoming UN conference in Paris, as France says "a whole series" of side events will be cancelled in the wake of Friday's terrorist attacks in the capital.

Speaking three days after Paris was hit by devastating jihadist attacks, French prime minister Manuel Valls said the city would be the "capital of the world" when the crunch climate talks kick off on November 30.

"No head of state, of government — on the contrary — has asked us to postpone this meeting. All want to be there," Mr Valls said on RTL radio.

"To do otherwise would, I believe, be to yield to terrorism. France will be the capital of the world."

But he said the conference would "probably" be reduced to the official negotiation.

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