Section: Bangkok Post (Thailand)
Ukraine’s PM resigns, complicating MH17 probe
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – Ukraine’s prime minister resigned after his governing coalition collapsed, plunging the former Soviet state into political limbo as it struggles to quell a deadly rebellion in the east. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Russia firing across border on Ukraine troops: US
The United States on Thursday said it had evidence Russian forces are firing artillery from inside Russia on Ukrainian troops, in what officials called a “clear escalation” of the conflict. …read more Source: Bangkok...
‘Evidence’ Moscow firing from Russia on Ukraine troops: US
WASHINGTON – The United States has evidence that Russian troops are firing artillery from inside Russia on Ukrainian military positions, a US official alleged Thursday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
First MH17 bodies arrive in grieving Netherlands
EINDHOVEN (NETHERLANDS) – The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, as the conflict flared yet again near the Malaysian airliner’s crash site. …read more Source: Bangkok...
First MH17 bodies reach Netherlands
EINDHOVEN – The first bodies from flight MH17 arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday almost a week after it was shot down over Ukraine, as the conflict flared yet again near the Malaysian airliner’s crash site. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Calls in Germany to strip Russia of 2018 World Cup
BERLIN – German politicians demanded Wednesday that Russia be stripped of the right to host the 2018 World Cup for fuelling the Ukraine conflict, although football officials quickly rejected the idea. …read more Source: Bangkok...
No evidence of tampering with MH17 voice recorder: probe
THE HAGUE – Dutch lead investigators into the shooting down over Ukraine of flight MH17 said Wednesday that data from the cockpit voice recorder was intact and had not been tampered with. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Possible many more MH17 bodies with wreckage: Australia PM
SYDNEY – Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Wednesday it was possible that many bodies from the MH17 crash were still lying in the open in Ukraine. …read more Source: Bangkok...
MH17 has strong echoes of 1983 Korean tragedy
SEOUL – The downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine has stirred memories of a 1983 incident when a Korean passenger jet was shot down by Soviet fighters in what then US president Ronald Reagan called a mid-air “massacre”. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Rebels return 80 fewer bodies than promised from MH17, experts say
DONETSK (UKRAINE) – International monitors on Tuesday said body parts still lay scattered at eastern Ukraine’s unsecured crash site of downed flight MH17, as Dutch experts said they were given 80 fewer corpses than promised by the rebels. …read more Source: Bangkok...
