Lille Airport in Northern France Evacuated Due to Bomb Scare

(FILES) Check-in counters at Airport Lille-Lesquin, northern France are closed on April 15, 2010 as a result of the volcano eruption in Iceland. Six airports across France were evacuated on October 18, 2023 after emailed "threats of attack", a police source told AFP. (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP)
(FILES) Check-in counters at Airport Lille-Lesquin, northern France are closed on April 15, 2010 as a result of the volcano eruption in Iceland. Six airports across France were evacuated on October 18, 2023 after emailed "threats of attack", a police source told AFP. (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP)
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Lille Airport in Northern France Evacuated Due to Bomb Scare

(FILES) Check-in counters at Airport Lille-Lesquin, northern France are closed on April 15, 2010 as a result of the volcano eruption in Iceland. Six airports across France were evacuated on October 18, 2023 after emailed "threats of attack", a police source told AFP. (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP)
(FILES) Check-in counters at Airport Lille-Lesquin, northern France are closed on April 15, 2010 as a result of the volcano eruption in Iceland. Six airports across France were evacuated on October 18, 2023 after emailed "threats of attack", a police source told AFP. (Photo by PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP)

The Lille airport in northern France is being evacuated due to a bomb scare, the airport said on Wednesday on social media platform X.
"State security teams are on site," the airport said.
According to BFM TV, citing police sources, the Toulouse, Nice and Lyon airports were also evacuated on Wednesday due to security alerts, reported Reuters.
France is on its highest state of alert after the Oct. 13 murder of a teacher in a suspected Islamist attack.
On Tuesday, the Palace of Versailles, one of France's main tourist sites, was closed for a few hours, due to its second security scare in four days.



Kremlin Says Putin Open to Normalizing Ties with Finland if Helsinki Wants to Rebuild Ties

Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool
Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool
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Kremlin Says Putin Open to Normalizing Ties with Finland if Helsinki Wants to Rebuild Ties

Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool
Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin was open to normalizing relations with Finland, which his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said were in a "sad state," if Helsinki wanted to rebuild ties.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb told his British counterpart Keir Starmer on Monday that Helsinki needs to "mentally prepare" for the restoration of ties with Russia, Reuters reported.

Finland, which shares a 1,300-km (800-mile) border with Russia, joined the NATO military alliance in 2023, which Moscow cast at the time as a dangerous historic mistake.