Section: The West Australian (Australia)
New hope MH17 remains will be recovered (AAP)
Police are hopeful of having safe access to the MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine and recovering bodies and personal items. …read more Source: The West...
RAAF medics ready to fly to Ukraine (AAP)
A seven-person RAAF aero-medical evacuation team is on standby in the Netherlands in case things don’t go exactly to plan at the MH17 crash site. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 probe inches forward as experts reach Ukraine site (AFP)
Rozsypne (Ukraine) (AFP) – An international probe into the downing of flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine inched forward on Thursday as experts risked attack to reach the site for the first time in nearly a week after Kiev announced a halt to its military offensive. …read more Source: The West...
Blasts as experts reach MH17 crash site in Ukraine (AFP)
Rozsypne (Ukraine) (AFP) – Explosions rang out near the crash site of downed flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine on Thursday as international investigators arrived for the first time in nearly a week after Kiev announced a surprise one-day halt to its offensive against rebels. …read more Source: The West...
Ex-spy Litvinenko death inquiry to open in Britain (AFP)
London (AFP) – Britain will on Thursday formally open an inquiry into the radioactive poisoning of Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko in a case that threatens to increase tensions with Moscow amid the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 airbridge to Ukraine ‘smashing it’ (AAP)
The RAAF is flying sorties every day from the Netherlands to Kharkiv in Ukraine to assist experts hoping to retrieve bodies from the MH17 crash site. …read more Source: The West...
Russia warns sanctions will backfire on West (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – A defiant Russia said Wednesday that Western sanctions over Ukraine would backfire on the United States and lead to energy price hikes in Europe after Brussels and Washington unveiled the toughest punitive measures against Moscow since the Cold War. …read more Source: The West...
Aviation officials call for anti-air weapons law (AFP)
Montreal (AFP) – Aviation officials called for better dissemination of flight risks and a UN law restricting anti-aircraft weapons use, at an emergency meeting Tuesday on the downing of Flight MH17 over Ukraine. …read more Source: The West...
After shaky start, Ukraine turns eastern offensive around (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – When Ukraine’s military offensive to oust pro-Russian rebels from the restive east began in mid-April with humiliated soldiers meekly surrendering their armoured vehicles it looked doomed to failure. …read more Source: The West...
US, Europe slap Russia with toughest sanctions yet (AFP)
Washington (AFP) – The United States and Europe targeted Russia’s key financial, arms and energy sectors Tuesday with tough new sanctions in response to Moscow’s intervention in the Ukraine crisis. …read more Source: The West...
