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MH17: Rescuers find 251 bodies at crash site
KIEV: Rescuers found 251 bodies and 86 fragments of bodies by late on Sunday at the crash site of a Malaysian airliner and a second train with refrigerator wagons to take the remains away has arrived, a Ukrainian government committee said. …read more Source: New Straits...
‘My parents are watching from heaven’: Son pays tribute to Hong Kong chef and mother killed on MH17
The son of a celebrated Hong Kong-born chef killed in an airliner shot down over Ukraine has pledged to keep his family’s restaurants open in the Netherlands. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Observers have access to Malaysian jet crash site in Ukraine: OSCE
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) do have access to the crash site of a Malaysian airliner, a representative of the mission said Sunday. …read more Source:...
World › Rebels move MH17 air crash bodies as U.S. accuses Russia
Pro-Russian militiamen in Ukraine loaded almost 200 bodies from downed flight MH17 into refrigerated train wagons on Sunday as an outraged United States pointed the finger of blame directly at Moscow and demanded it ensure full access to the crash site for international investigators. In what is the most unequivocal… …read more...
World › AIDS conference honors victims of jet crash
An international AIDS conference opened in Australia on Sunday with a tribute to several delegates who were killed en route to the gathering when their plane was shot down over Ukraine. Officials at the opening ceremony for the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne held a moment of silence for… …read more Source: Japan...
Rebels to hand over MH17 black boxes to international aviation group
Rebels have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and will hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organization, a rebel leader said Sunday. Alexander Borodai also said the bodies recovered from the crash site in eastern Ukraine would remain in refrigerated train cars at a station in the rebel-held town...
Most Bodies Recovered from MH17 Downed Over Ukraine
The Ukrainian government says 219 bodies have been recovered from the site where a Malaysian airliner crashed after being shot down on Thursday, as well as what they believe are parts of 28 additional bodies. That would leave 51 of the people on the plane still unaccounted for. Also, a Eu… …read more Source: The Chosun...
Putin says ‘all the right things’ to Australia PM over MH17
SYDNEY — Russian President Vladimir Putin said “all the right things” in a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who Monday demanded he back his words with action over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. The two leaders spoke overnight in their first conversation since the plane, carrying 298 people,...
LIVE BLOG: MH17 crash aftermath July 21
Live coverage of the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on Thursday (July 17). All 298 people on board were killed. …read more Source: Channel...
MH17 AIR DISASTER: Send UN troops to secure crash site
BEFORE we could even begin to get over the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the nation has to contend with the shooting down of MH17, allegedly by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew members in a blink of an eye at the height of 10,000m. …read more Source: New Straits...
