In Paris for climate talks, Obama honors attack victims

PARIS — President Barack Obama is paying tribute to those killed in the terrorist attacks in Paris two weeks ago.

After midnight on a cool and clear Paris night, the American president's motorcade went straight from Orly Airport to the famed French concert hall, the Bataclan, that the terrorists struck.

French President Francois Hollande and the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, joined Obama. Each placed a single flower at a makeshift memorial and Obama bowed his head in silence

Some 130 people died in the deadliest attack on French soil in more than a half-century. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.

Obama is in Paris for the opening two days of an international conference on combatting climate change.