Section: Australia&NZ
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...
Putin ‘will help recover bodies, black boxes’: Dutch PM (AFP)
The Hague (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday promised Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte he will help retrieve bodies and black boxes from the Ukrainian rebel-held crash site of flight MH17. …read more Source: The West...
Deadly fighting rages on in east Ukraine despite plane crash (AFP)
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pensioner Oleksandr had just stepped out of his house in eastern Ukraine to say hello to a neighbour when a mortar shell landed at his feet. …read more Source: The West...
MH17 black boxes under rebel watch in Donetsk, according to separatist leader
Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine say they are keeping what they believe to be the MH17 black boxes in the eastern city of Donetsk, but they say they will need experts to confirm the boxes are in fact the doomed plane’s flight recorders. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Rebels move MH17 air crash bodies as US accuses Russia (AFP)
Grabove (Ukraine) (AFP) – Pro-Russian militiamen in Ukraine loaded almost 200 bodies from downed flight MH17 into refrigerated train wagons on Sunday as an outraged United States pointed the finger of blame directly at Moscow and demanded it ensure full access to the crash site for international investigators. …read more Source: The...
Putin’s Russia risks burning bridges over jet crash (AFP)
Moscow (AFP) – Russia risks burning bridges with the West over the deadly Malaysian plane crash in Ukraine, as analysts warn that President Vladimir Putin might never accept responsibility for the disaster. …read more Source: The West...
US turns up heat on Russia over downed plane
WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration on Sunday turned up the heat on Russia for its support of Ukrainian separatists accused by the United States and others of shooting down a Malaysian passenger plane.In some of the administration’s… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Australia leads push for international access to MH17 crash site
Australia leads a mounting international push demanding armed insurgents in Ukraine allow access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site and co-operate with investigators. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
MH17: Victims loaded onto ‘train of the dead’
A ‘‘train of the dead” sits in a dilapidated eastern Ukraine station, which is said to contain more than 150 bodies from the MH17 crash site. …read more Source: The Sydney Morning...
Bodies moved from MH17 site as world demands probe (AFP)
Grabove (Ukraine) (AFP) – International monitors said Sunday that pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine had loaded scores of bodies from the crash site of downed Malaysian jet MH17 into train wagons as grieving families clamoured to have their loved ones brought home. …read more Source: The West...
