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Malaysians rally outside embassies in first major public expression of outrage over MH17
Hundreds of Malaysians demonstrated outside the Russian and Ukrainian embassies in Kuala Lumpur yesterday demanding justice over a Malaysia Airlines jet shot down over rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Russia backs UN resolution demanding international access to MH17 crash site
Even as a reluctant Russia backed a UN Security Council resolution demanding international access to the crash site of MH17, military officials in Moscow came out swinging in defence, saying there was evidence suggesting that Ukrainian air defence forces could be to blame for the tragedy and lambasting the west for “unfounded...
Hong Kong: At eight-month high
STOCKS surged 1.69 per cent to an eight-month high yesterday as tensions over Ukraine eased and speculation grew that China would ease property purchase rules to kickstart the sector. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Britain to analyse black boxes – PM Cameron
LONDON : Britain has agreed to a Dutch request for air accident investigators to retrieve data from the black boxes of the Malaysia Airlines plane that was downed over Ukraine with the loss of 298 lives, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine welcomes UN resolution on MH17 disaster
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday welcomed the U.N. resolution on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 disaster demanding ceasefire at the crash site and independent investigation into the incident, which resulted in the deaths of nearly 300 people. …read more Source:...
Malaysian PM welcomes progress on MH17 agreement
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Tuesday that he welcomed the progress in the agreement Malaysia brokered with Ukrainian rebel leaders, and praised the Malaysian team for their work in securing the return of the remains of the victims, and taking custody of the black boxes. …read more Source:...
Dutch to recover MH17 bodies from morgue train
Dutch experts on Tuesday prepared to take custody of some 280 bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, as a train carrying the remains arrived in the government-held Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. Rebels controlling the crash site released the morgue train under intense international pressure, finally allowing a great majority of...
Britain to hold public inquiry into ex-spy Litvinenko death
The British government on Tuesday announced a public inquiry into the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the Russian dissident who was poisoned in London with radioactive tea in 2006. The move comes as Britain presses for further sanctions against Russia over the downing of a passenger plane over eastern Ukraine, allegedly by pro-Moscow separatists....
MH17 victims’ identification could take months: Dutch PM
The first bodies from the MH17 crash in Ukraine will be flown on Wednesday (July 23) to Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where their identification could take months, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said. …read more Source: Channel...
Shakhtar Midfielder Says Players’ Lives at Risk
Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder Douglas Costa says he and his fellow players who refused to return to the Ukrainian champion did so because the conflict in the country puts their lives at risk. …read more Source:...
