Airlines cancel Ukraine flights as threat of war grows
CNN
Air France and Lufthansa are the latest airlines to suspend flights into Ukraine as fears of a Russian invasion grow.
The French carrier said that it would cancel flights to and from the capital Kyiv on Tuesday as a "precautionary measure," citing the security situation.
"Air France will regularly reassess the situation and reminds that the safety and security of its flights, its customers and its crews, is an absolute imperative," Air France said in a statement on Monday.
The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.