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UN Calls Emergency Meeting Over Plane Crash


Leaders around the world are calling for an investigation of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine that killed nearly 300 people.

Witnesses and reporters say smoldering debris and body parts from Thursday’s crash of a Boeing 777 are scattered across a charred field in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. There are no survivors. Most of the passengers on the flight, headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, were Dutch. Many were headed to an international AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon led the call for a transparent investigation into Thursday’s crash. The U.N. Security Council will hold …read more

Source: Voice of America

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