Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
MH17 shot down by missile from rebel-held Ukraine
GILZE-RIJEN: Air crash investigators concluded Tuesday that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board. Even before the highly-anticipated release of the official report on the disaster by a Dutch-led investigation, Russian officials were disputing the...
Inquiry finds MH17 shot down by Russian-made missile
GILZE-RIJEN: International investigators have concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile fired from rebel-held eastern Ukraine, a Dutch paper said Tuesday just hours ahead of the official report. The findings into last year’s air disaster, due to be released at 1115 GMT by the Dutch Safety...
Timeline of MH17 air disaster
THE HAGUE: International investigators have concluded that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile, a Dutch paper said Tuesday just hours ahead of the official report. 2014 July 17: A Boeing 777 operated by Malaysia Airlines flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashes near the village of Grabove, in the...
MH17: Dutch report to say Russian-made missile hit plane
AMSTERDAM: The Dutch Safety Board, issuing long-awaited findings on Tuesday of its investigation into the crash of a Malaysian passenger plane over eastern Ukraine, is expected to say it was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile but not say who was responsible for firing it. MH17 was shot down over territory held by pro-Russia rebels in eastern...
Families brace for final MH17 air crash report
THE HAGUE: International investigators will on Tuesday release their final report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn Ukraine, but the burning question of who was to blame will remain unresolved. The Dutch Safety Board (OVV), leading a team of international investigators since the Boeing 777 went down last year,...
MH17: Russian missile firm to hold rival briefing
MOSCOW: The Russian manufacturer of the missile system blamed for shooting down flight MH17 said Friday it would unveil the “real reasons” for the disaster on the same day Dutch investigators present their final report on the tragedy. Almaz-Antey, the maker of the BUK surface-to-air system that the West and Kiev believe downed MH17, said it would...
Some foreign leaders ‘using’ Europe’s refugee crisis
POLAND: The huge influx of migrants into Europe is being used by some foreign leaders to weaken the European Union politically, EU president Donald Tusk said Friday in Poland. “For the first time in my political career I have heard politicians openly declaring that the refugees heading to Europe are their method of getting (us) to act a certain...
Obama warns Russia’s Putin of ‘quagmire’ in Syria
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama warned Russia on Friday that its bombing campaign against Syrian rebels will suck Moscow into a “quagmire,” after a third straight day of air raids in support of President Bashar al-Assad. At a White House news conference, Obama frequently assailed Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he accused of acting...
Australia to bid for UN Security Council seat
SYDNEY: Australia will bid to rejoin the United Nations Security Council by the end of the next decade, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement on Wednesday. Bishop said Australia, whose last two-year term ended in December 2014, would promote greater international cooperation to tackle global security challenges in its bid for a...
Ukraine leader mocks Russia’s call for anti-terrorism coalition
UNITED NATIONS: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday derided Russia’s call for the creation of an international antiterrorism coalition, saying the Russians inspire terrorism on their own doorstep and back bellicose puppet governments. Russian President Putin on Monday called for the creation of a broad international coalition to...
