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MH17 wreckage removal starts in east Ukraine
Workers started winching debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on to trucks in eastern Ukraine Sunday, paving the More… …read more Source: Emirates...
Local emergency services recover MH17 wreckage in Ukraine
The recovery process is expected to take several days, with the wreckage eventually being taken to the Netherlands. …read more Source: Khaleej...
Experts collect MH17 wreckage
AMSTERDAM: Work started on Sunday to remove the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, four months after it was shot down, killing 298 passengers and crew. Dutch experts supervised a crew from the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic’s emergency ministry as they began...
Putin leaves G20 meeting early amid storm of criticism over Ukraine
While European leaders berated Mr Putin for the crisis in Ukraine, they also held a series of bilateral meetings with him to seek a way forward and avoid further sanctions. …read more Source: The...
MH17 wreckage removal starts in rebel-held east Ukraine
Investigators from the Netherlands heading the probe into the disaster, say it could take “several days” …read more Source: Gulf...
G20 summit: Western leaders warn of further sanctions on Russia
British prime minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama hammered home the West’s determination to curb Russia’s actions in Ukraine at the summit in Brisbane, where President Vladimir Putin faced a barrage of criticism from other world leaders. …read more Source: The...
Russia warned of further sanctions as G20 ends
Barack Obama accuses Russia of invading Ukraine and Britain warns of a possible conflict in Europe. …read more Source: Gulf...
2 kids among 5 dead in east Ukraine: Officials
KIEV: Five civilians, including two children, and three more Ukrainian soldiers have died in the latest fighting in Ukraine, officials said on Saturday. The civilian deaths came in Gorlivka, some 30 kilometres north of the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, late Friday, the local council in the rebel-held city said. It added that a further 12 people...
Over 30,000 rally in Tbilisi against government
Tbilisi: Over 30,000 opposition supporters rallied on Saturday in the Georgian capital Tbilisi against the government’s Russia policy and the Kremlin’s backing of separatists in the breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions. Carrying Georgian and Ukrainian flags and placards that read “Stop Putin!”, the protesters gathered on the...
Ukraine to close state offices, bank services in rebel-held east
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko issued several decrees on Saturday to shut state institutions and banking services in pro-Russian eastern regions, pressing a move to cut links with the rebel-held territory. Ukraine has cut all state funding to separatist parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions after separatists held elections in late...
