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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)
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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.

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Iran Unveils New Underground Naval Base

A screenshot from Iranian state TV shows a newly built underground naval base, January 18, 2025.
A screenshot from Iranian state TV shows a newly built underground naval base, January 18, 2025.
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Iran Unveils New Underground Naval Base

A screenshot from Iranian state TV shows a newly built underground naval base, January 18, 2025.
A screenshot from Iranian state TV shows a newly built underground naval base, January 18, 2025.

The naval arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) unveiled on Saturday an underground base in the country’s southern waters, according to footage aired by state television.

The broadcaster, AFP said, showed that the base houses dozens of assault boats equipped with missile launchers.

“This facility, which houses missile assault boats, lies 500 meters underground on the southern waters of Iran,” the report said. It did not reveal the location of the base.

IRGC commander General Hossein Salami toured the base with naval arm commander, Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, the footage showed.

“We assure the great nation of Iran that their young people are capable of coming out honorable and victorious from a battle on the seas against enemies big and small,” Salami said.

Salami's visit comes just days before Donald Trump's inauguration as US president on Monday for a second term of office.

During his first term, Trump pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran, abandoning a 2015 nuclear agreement and reimposing sweeping sanctions.

State television said some of the vessels kept at the base unveiled on Saturday were “capable of destroying US warships and destroyers.”

In a rare video released on January 10, the Iranian state TV showed Salami and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh touring an underground missile storage facility that had been used to launch around 200 missiles at Israel last October. These included for the first time hypersonic weapons.

At the time, Iran said the attack came in retaliation for the assassination in July of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, and in response to the Israeli air strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on September 27 that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Brig-Gen Abbas Nilforoushan, the operations commander of the IRGC’s overseas arm, the Quds Force.

Israel announced in late October that it had struck military targets inside Iran in response to the Iranian attacks.