Section: Australia&NZ
Aussies working to identify the MH17 dead (AAP)
There are 38 Australian forensic experts evenly split between the Netherlands and Ukraine working to identify the MH17 victims. …read more Source: The West...
MH17: Crash site a strategic target for Ukraine troops, rebels
Ukranian and rebel forces are locked in a struggle for control of the MH17 crash site, driving Australian and Dutch investigators to opt for high-risk strategies that so far have failed to win them access to the debris field where the Malaysian aircraft went down. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Aussies working to identify the MH17 dead
There are 38 Australian forensic experts evenly split between the Netherlands and Ukraine working to identify the MH17 victims. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Who’s who: The Russian-linked warlords behind rebellion in Ukraine
Fighting between the Ukraine government and pro-Moscow separatists continues to obstruct access of a joint Dutch-Australian police team to the site of the MH17 crash. …read more Source: ABC...
How did the conflict in Ukraine start?
The region where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down is at the heart of a conflict that has been raging for months. …read more Source: ABC...
Bishop presses for arming of officers at MH17 site
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is hopeful Ukrainian MPs will ratify an agreement to allow Australians to carry weapons on the MH17 crash site. Ms Bishop is in Kiev holding talks with president Petro Poroshenko and other officials and says the plan to carry weapons is just a contingency.Ms Bishop says the Australian Federal Police mission at the...
Rebels claim Kiev now controls part of MH17 site (AFP)
Shakhtarsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s army on Monday seized control of part of the vast site where Malaysian airliner MH17 crashed, insurgents said, as the United Nations announced the downing of the plane could constitute a war crime. …read more Source: The West...
Rebels claim Kiev now control part of MH17 site (AFP)
Shakhtarsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine’s army on Monday seized control of part of the vast site where Malaysian airliner MH17 crashed, insurgents said, as the United Nations announced the downing of the plane could constitute a war crime. …read more Source: The West...
Poland, Britain call for more sanctions on Russia
WARSAW, Poland (AP) The foreign ministers of Poland and Britain have called for more economic sanctions on Russia, saying it is responsible for the downing of the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine this month.Poland’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Some MH17 victims may ‘never be found’ (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – All remains of the 298 people who died on downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in rebel-held east Ukraine may never be recovered, Dutch police chief Gerard Bouman said on Monday. …read more Source: The West...
