Section: The West Australian (Australia)
MH17 bodies still en route to Holland (AAP)
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has visited Kharkiv in Ukraine as MH17 victims continue to be flown to the Netherlands for forensic identification. …read more Source: The West...
Australia to send troops to Ukraine crash site: PM (AFP)
Sydney (AFP) – Australian troops plan to join a police contingent in helping secure the Flight MH17 crash site in Ukraine, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Friday, while stressing the mission would be humanitarian in nature. …read more Source: The West...
Aust police to probe MH17 disaster (AAP)
Australian police guarded by ADF personnel will be sent in to protect the MH17 crash site in the Ukraine and help investigators find the culprits. …read more Source: The West...
Parents head to Ukraine convinced MH17 daughter still alive (AFP)
Sydney (AFP) – The parents of an Australian victim of the MH17 disaster are clinging to hopes their daughter may still be alive, travelling to Ukraine to find her, reports said Friday. …read more Source: The West...
Dyczynskis push on towards crash site (AAP)
The Perth parents of one of the passengers on board flight MH17 are in Ukraine and travelling east towards the rebel-controlled crash site. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine’s PM resigns, complicating MH17 probe (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s prime minister resigned Thursday 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: The West...
Ukraine’s PM resigns amid deadly rebellion complicating MH17 probe (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s prime minister resigned Thursday 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: The West...
MH17 black box data downloaded, no evidence of tampering (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Dutch investigators into the shooting down over Ukraine of flight MH17 said Thursday they had downloaded data from the black box flight recorder and that it had not been tampered with. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine prime minister resigns over coalition break up (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday resigned in protest at the disbanding of the ruling parliamentary coalition. …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine fighting rages as Australia ready for MH17 site deployment (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Fighting between Ukrainian troops and rebels raged Thursday near the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, as countries which lost 298 citizens in the disaster moved to deploy their police to secure the impact zone. …read more Source: The West...
