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MH17 wreckage arrives at Dutch base
The eight-truck convoy began its long journey from Ukraine last week, crossing into The Netherlands from Germany early Tuesday, travelling under police escort to the airbase in the southern Netherlands. …read more Source: Channel...
Dutch to begin assembling MH17 wreckage for investigation
AMSTERDAM – Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar on Tuesday. Members of the national Safety Board will… …read more Source:...
Dutch to begin assembling flight MH17 wreckage for investigation
December 10, 2014 12:41 AMAMSTERDAM (REUTERS) – Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought by truck to a Dutch air force hangar on Tuesday. …read more Source: The Straits...
MH17 wreckage arrives at Dutch base for reconstruction
Netherlands – A convoy carrying wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived at a Dutch airbase on Tuesday where it will be reconstructed as part of a probe into the shooting down of the doomed plane.Around 50 relatives of some of the 298 people killed when the plane was blown out of the sky over war-torn Ukraine in July were allowed...
Ukraine ceasefire holding, says President Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday a ceasefire along the front line in the east of his country appeared to be holding after Kiev declared a “day of silence” in the war with pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: Channel...
Ukraine peace talks delayed but ceasefire largely holds
The Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Tuesday (Dec 9) that planned peace talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels had been delayed and would probably not be held until Friday. …read more Source: Channel...
2014 devastating year for children: UN
UNITED NATIONS, United States – 2014 has been a devastating year for children with up to 15 million swept up in wars in the Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, the Palestinian territories, Syria and Ukraine, the UN children’s agency said Monday.”Never in recent memory have so many children been subjected to such...
War-torn Ukraine to test sweeping new ceasefire
Ukraine and pro-Russian insurgents prepared to put to the test a comprehensive truce on Tuesday (Dec 9) aimed at calming an upsurge of violence that has further eroded trust between Moscow and the West. …read more Source: Channel...
US, UK join major nuclear weapons conference
VIENNA – The United States and Britain on Monday for the first time attended a global conference discussing the risks posed by nuclear weapons, reversing their snubbing of previous rounds.The two countries are permanent UN Security Council members and among the nine states confirmed or believed to possess nuclear weapns, but shunned...
MH17 wreckage due in Netherlands on Tuesday
THE HAGUE – Wreckage from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will arrive from Ukraine at a Dutch air force base on Tuesday where the plane will be reconstructed as part of probe into the crash.The convoy of lorries carrying pieces of wreckage from Ukraine is due to arrive at the Gilze-Rijen airbase in the south of the country at around 2 pm...
