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MH17 likely downed by outside impacts, say Dutch experts
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was likely struck by multiple “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft,” causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine, a preliminary report into the deadly aviation disaster concluded on Tuesday. The report by the Dutch Safety Board stopped short of saying t...
Malaysia to send team to jet crash site in Ukraine
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysia aims to send a search team to the crash site in Ukraine of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 before winter sets in to gather physical evidence to prove that it was shot down, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday. …read more Source: Saudi...
Uneasy calm holds in eastern Ukraine after ceasefire
A destroyed Ukrainian army tank is seen near the village of Lebedynske, on the highway joining Mariupol and Novoazovsk, Ukraine, on Saturday. — AP DONESTSK/MARIUPOL, Ukraine — A ceasefire struck between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine was largely holding …read more Source:...
Australia to sign uranium trade deal with India; imposes ban
SYDNEY — Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday he hoped to sign a deal this week to sell uranium to India for peaceful power generation, but halted uranium exports to Russia over Moscow’s role in Ukraine. Work on an India-Australia agreement has been underway since Australia, which has 40 percent of the world’s...
Ukraine says truce deal agreed
KIEV — The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached agreement on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, but there was no immediate indication that the fighting would stop. The brief statement said “mutual understanding was reached regarding the steps that will...
Russia and NATO square off over Ukraine
MOSCOW — Russia vowed on Tuesday to adopt a beefed up new military doctrine over NATO’s plans to establish a rapid-response team that could ward off the Kremlin’s expansion into Ukraine and feared push further west. Moscow’s surprise announcement added a new and threatening new layer of tensions ahead of NATO...
Kiev warns of ‘great war’ with Russia as its forces retreat
KIEV — Ukrainian forces ceded a strategic eastern airport to pro-Russian insurgents on Monday as the government in Kiev accused Moscow of launching a “great war” that could claim tens of thousands of lives. The sense of foreboding in Kiev came as European-mediated talks over the fast-escalating crisis opened in the Belorussian c...
Death toll in Ukraine fighting hits 2,593
KIEV — A total of 2,593 people, including civilians as well as Ukrainian and separatist combatants, have been killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine since it erupted in mid-April, a senior UN human rights official said on Friday. “The trend is clear and alarming. There is a significant increase in the death toll in the...
Ukraine seeks NATO membership
KIEV — Ukraine said on Friday it would seek the protection of NATO membership after what Kiev and its Western allies say is the open participation of the Russian military in the war in Ukraine’s eastern provinces. Formal Ukrainian membership in the Western military alliance — which would come with the full protection of a...
Russian troops involved in Ukraine
DONETSK — Washington and Kiev said Thursday that Russian troops were actively involved in the fighting tearing apart eastern Ukraine, raising fears of a direct military confrontation on Europe’s eastern flank. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko scrapped a trip to Turkey and called an urgent meeting of his security...
