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Russia Appeals to UN Aviation Body to Open New MH17 Probe
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russia has appealed to the International Civil Aviation Organization to open a new probe into last year’s downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, the chief of the Russian aviation agency said Wednesday. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Trial starts for three Crimean Tatar activists
Hearing by Russian authorities in cases of three Crimea Tatars to start today in Crimea …read more Source: World...
Soldier killed in east Ukraine despite truce
Despite a truce with rebels, a Ukrainian solider has been killed by grenade launchers. …read more Source: World...
Soldier killed in east Ukraine despite truce with rebels: military
A Ukrainian soldier was shot dead in the conflict-torn east of the ex-Soviet nation, shattering a weeks-long ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian separatists, Kiev said Wednesday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Jeb Bush says Putin’s Russia should face consequences over Syria
Calling Putin a ‘bully’, Bush said the U.S. and Europe should also extend sanctions against Moscow over its military aggression in Ukraine …read more Source: Al...
Final moments of MH17: Passengers ‘alive for 90 seconds after blast’ [video]
A partial reconstruction of a Malaysia Airlines jet made of wreckage found strewn across eastern Ukraine told the More… …read more Source: Emirates...
MH17 ‘shot down by Russian-made missile’
GILZE-Rijen, Netherlands — Air crash investigators have concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, sources close to the inquiry said on Tuesday, triggering a swift Russian denial. The findings are likely to exacerbate the tensions between Russia and the West, as ties have...
Russia, Slovakia clinch Euro Finals spots
LONDON — Russia, which hosts the World Cup in 2018, made sure it will be guest at France’s party next year when it beat Montenegro to make sure of its place in the Euro 2016 Finals Monday. On the penultimate night of qualifiers, it was joined by Slovakia, which beat Luxembourg, while Ukraine, Slovenia and Sweden must take their chances in...
Flight MH17 ‘downed by missile’
GILZE-RIJEN: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board concluded on Tuesday in its final report on the crash in July 2014 that killed all 298 people on board, most of them Dutch. But the long-awaited findings of the board, which was not empowered to address questions of...
Ukraine explains not closing airspace before MH17 downed
Foreign minister says Kiev unaware of presence of sophisticated missiles in eastern Ukraine …read more Source: Anadolu...



