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Bodies rained down on village after plane was shot out of sky
First came the loud explosion that made buildings rattle: Then it started raining bodies. One of the corpses fell through the rickety roof of Irina Tipunova’s house in this sleepy village, just after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 exploded high over eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting government forces. “There...
Malaysia Airlines may face global legal claims
Malaysia Airlines may need to convince judges from several countries that it was not negligent to send a plane over war-torn eastern Ukraine if the airline hopes to avoid an outsize legal exposure for the downing of Flight MH17, aviation lawyers said. The lawyers said they expected at least some of the families of the […] The post Malaysia...
Rebels refuse access to Ukraine crash site until truce
GRABOVE, Ukraine (AFP) ― Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebels defied mounting world outrage on Sunday and said they would allow …read more Source: The Korea...
Pro-Russian rebels find MH17 black boxes as bodies loaded onto trains from crash site
A separatist leader said on Sunday that pro-Russian rebels were keeping what they presumed were the black boxes from the downed Malaysian airliner in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. …read more Source: South China Morning...
Spotlight: Clash after crash: EU confronts Russia over crashed Malaysian plane
Although there is no definitive evidence proving insurgents were responsible for the crash of a Malaysian passenger plane in eastern Ukraine that killed 298 people, there is increasing international anger toward Russia. …read more Source:...
Insurgents in Ukraine say black boxes of crashed Malaysian plane found
Insurgents said on Sunday that black boxes of a crashed Malaysian airliner had been found and brought to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported. …read more Source:...
Ukraine PM says MH17 not downed by “drunken gorillas”
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said in comments published on Sunday that Russia was likely behind the downing of a Malaysian airliner as such an operation takes professionals and not “drunken gorillas”. …read more Source: Channel...
MH17: Four Shell Malaysia employees onboard flight
KUALA LUMPUR: Shell Malaysia has confirmed that four of the company’s employees were on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which crashed in Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
Malaysia Airlines retires MH17 flight code
Malaysia Airlines on Sunday said it would retire flight code MH17 of the plane that was shot down over Ukraine as a mark of respect for the 298 people aboard, the second time the carrier has done… …read more Source: The...
Pro-Russian rebel claims MH17 black boxes in Donetsk
A pro-Russian rebel on Sunday tweeted that the black boxes from the crashed Malaysia Airlines jet MH17 had been brought to rebel stronghold Donetsk in east Ukraine, after a rebel leader said they had never recovered the data recorders. …read more Source: Channel...
