Section: Australia
- ABC News (Australia) (311)
- NEWS.com.au (Australia) (203)
- SBS (Australia) (245)
- The West Australian (Australia) (2,557)
Netherlands mourns as bodies of MH17 crash victims return (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Bodies recovered from the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17 will be flown to the Netherlands Wednesday as the country mourns 193 citizens killed in what US officials said was a “mistake” by pro-Russian separatists. …read more Source: The West...
MH17: satellite photos show impact of crash
Satellite photos taken near the Ukrainian town of Grabovo show MH17 debris strewn far from the primary crash site in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: ABC...
MH17 propaganda: Russians fed conspiracy theories about crash
An assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin. A desperate ploy to draw the West into the battle for Ukraine’s east. A botched mission to commit mass murder against Russian citizens. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
MH17 black boxes handed to Dutch investigators (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Malaysian officials have handed over the black boxes from flight MH17 to Dutch lead investigators of the crash in rebel-held Ukraine, the Netherlands government said. …read more Source: The West...
MH17: Bodies missing as forensic experts begin identifying victims
The head of the Dutch forensic team in Ukraine says a train carrying the remains of MH17 victims contains significantly fewer bodies than claimed by pro-Russian rebels.The separatists said there were 282 bodies on the train but only 200 have been found.”We are sure of having 200 bodies and body parts, that is all that I know,” said...
MH17: EU imposes new sanctions on Russian officials, stops short of tougher penalties
BERLIN – The European Union agreed Tuesday to expand a list of Russian entities and individuals subject to asset freezes and travel bans and threatened to target vast sectors of the Russian economy if Moscow did not act swiftly to rein in rebels believed to have shot downing a Malaysia Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine. …read more...
MH17: Bodies missing on train carrying remains of victims, says Dutch official
A train carrying bodies and black boxes from a shot-down Malaysia Airlines flight arrived in this eastern Ukrainian city on Tuesday morning, but the remains of nearly a third of the people aboard the plane were missing, a Dutch forensics expert said. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Transfer of French warships to Russia ‘inappropriate’: US (AFP)
Washington (AFP) – The delivery of French Mistral-class warships to Russia would be “completely inappropriate” given the West’s misgivings about Moscow’s role in Ukraine, the United States said Tuesday. …read more Source: The West...
Evidence mounts of MH17 missile strike, but proof elusive (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – With evidence mounting that a surface-to-air missile brought down flight MH17 in Ukraine, experts warned Tuesday that proof remains a long way off and only satellite images can identify who pushed the button. …read more Source: The West...
Dutch prepare to fly out MH17 bodies as EU moves to punish Russia (AFP)
Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Dutch experts on Tuesday prepared to fly out bodies recovered from downed Malaysian flight MH17, as Europe moved to punish Russia for fanning the rebellion in east Ukraine that it believes led to the crash. …read more Source: The West...
