Section: Australia&NZ
Ukraine civilians flee fighting around Donetsk train station (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Intense shelling rocked the area around the train station in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Monday, an AFP reporter at the scene said. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 bodies to go to Netherlands: Ukraine (AAP)
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says the bodies of the MH17 victims will be transferred to the Netherlands as soon as possible. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 recovery effort: no word on where train will take bodies
So far 251 bodies and 66 fragments of human remains have been recovered from the MH17 crash site and placed in refrigerated train wagons, Ukraine authorities say. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Aust team poised to probe Ukraine crash (AAP)
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is hopeful Australian and other investigators can access the MH17 crash site quickly following a UN Security Council resolution. …read more Source: The West...
Bodies wait in train as pressure mounts on Russia
Four days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky in eastern Ukraine the bodies of more than 100 victims remain scattered across the debris field. …read more Source: ABC...
Bodies from downed jet piled in boxcars in Ukraine
TOREZ, Ukraine (AP) Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Refugees crisis grows as Ukraine conflict shows no sign of ending
As the MH17 tragedy focuses the world’s attention on Moscow and Kiev’s deadly fight over eastern Ukraine, thousands of locals continue to flee their homes amid widespread conflict. …read more Source: ABC...
MH17 crash seals fate of Malaysia Airlines
After the MH17 crash there is almost no chance Malaysia Airlines can survive, at least in its current form.Even before disaster struck in March with the mysterious disappearance of MH370, the airline was in a perilous financial position, perhaps the worst in the region, burning cash at an unsustainable rate.After last week’s tragic loss,...
Rebels guard bodies in chilled trains
PRO-Russian militiamen in Ukraine have loaded almost 200 bodies from downed flight MH17 into refrigerated trains. …read more Source: THE...
Premier Denis Napthine slams ‘abomination’, calls on UN to secure and investigate MH17 site
Victorian Premier Denis Napthine has called on the United Nations to send forces to secure and investigate the MH17 crime scene in the Ukraine. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
