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Spotlight: Netherlands to coordinate victim identification efforts as UN set to vote on MH17 disaster resolution
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Sunday a team of international forensic experts will finally reach the Ukrainian crash site of flight MH17 on Monday, and that the Netherlands will coordinate the efforts for identifying the victims. …read more Source:...
Fighting Erupts in Ukraine as Crash Investigators Arrive
Donetsk, Ukraine. Ukrainian army tanks were reported to be launching an assault to break pro-Russian rebels’ hold on the eastern city of Donetsk on Monday in the first major outbreak of hostilities in the area since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down last week. A separatist leader said Ukrainian government forces were trying to...
Interview with father who lost a son on MH17
Malaysia Airlines stewardSanjidSingh Sandhu was not supposed to be on Flight MH17 that crashed in eastern Ukraine. But the 41-year-old swapped flights with a colleague to return home a day earlier to visit his parents. AP Television spoke toJijarSingh Sandhu,Sanjid’sfather, about the loss of his son. “Nothing in this world can bring...
Fighting erupts in Ukraine as crash investigators arrive
Ukrainian army tanks were reported to be launching an assault to break pro-Russian rebels’ hold on the eastern city of Donetsk on Monday in the first major outbreak of hostilities in the area since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down last week.UN Security Council to hold emergency meetingU.N. Security Council mulls resolution on...
Dutch say train with MH17 bodies to leave station in east Ukraine
A Dutch forensic team on Monday said a train carrying the bodies of victims from a downed Malaysian jet will set off from the railway station in east Ukraine, to a place where “we can do our work”. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch investigators inspect MH17 bodies in east Ukraine
Dutch investigators on Monday inspected bodies recovered from downed passenger airliner MH17 which had been loaded onto a train under rebel control not far from the crash site, an AFP reporter said. There was little sign that the bodies were stored in refrigerated condition. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine agrees Dutch should lead MH17 crash probe
Kiev on Monday agreed that the Dutch should lead the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in east Ukraine. Dutch forensics experts were reportedly at a train station where the victims’ bodies are stored. …read more Source: Channel...
Angry Australia PM Says Ukraine Crash Probe Resembles ‘Garden Clean-Up’
Members of the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry, medical personnel and a crane operator work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region in Ukraine on July 20, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Maxim Zmeyev) Sydney. Australia’s prime minister voiced deep concern on Monday that Russian-backed rebels...
Australian AIDS Conference Remembers Crash Victims With Silence
Delegates observe a minute’s silence during the opening session, as a tribute to colleagues killed in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, at the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne on July 20, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Mark Dadswell) Delegates heading to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, were among the...
DFA expediting travel papers of kin of Filipino victims in MH17 crash
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is assisting the relatives of Filipinos who perished in the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in getting their passports and visa to travel to the Netherlands. “The next of kin of the Filipino victims were here in the (DFA) to apply for their travel documents and we...
