Section: Australia&NZ
’Control your shameless rebels’
RUSSIAN leader Vladamir Putin is under pressure to show the world he can bring rebels in Ukraine to heel following the MH17 crash. …read more Source:...
MH17: Remembering the victims
Malaysia Airlines have released the names of the 283 passengers and 15 crew on flight MH17, which was shot down over the Ukraine.The manifest confirms the nationalities of all those on board, including New Zealander Mary Menke,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine hits Russia over evidence
UKRAINE has accused Russia of helping insurgents destroy evidence at the crash site amid global condemnation of the Kremlin. …read more Source: THE...
Malaysia demands protection of MH17 crash site (AFP)
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) – Malaysia issued an impassioned plea Saturday for the MH17 disaster site in Ukraine to be protected from tampering, saying evidence was being compromised in what it called a “betrayal of the lives that were lost.” …read more Source: The West...
Ukraine accuses pro-Russia rebels of looting crash site (AFP)
Grabove (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukraine on Saturday accused pro-Russian insurgents of destroying evidence at the crash site of a Malaysian jet whose downing in the rebel-held east has drawn global condemnation of the Kremlin. …read more Source: The West...
Singapore Airlines apologizes over Ukraine remarks
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Singapore Airlines apologized Saturday over social media remarks it posted after the Malaysian jetliner was shot down that were taken by many as being insensitive.After the Malaysia Airlines plane went… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Merkel, Putin agree on international probe of MH17 crash (AFP)
Berlin (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed for an international investigation into the downing of a Malaysian Airlines plane over Ukraine, Berlin said on Saturday. …read more Source: The West...
Kiev says rebels trying to destroy crash evidence (AFP)
Kiev (AFP) – Ukraine on Saturday accused Russia of helping separatist insurgents they say shot down Malaysian airliner MH17 try to destroy evidence at the crash site. …read more Source: The West...
Flight MH17: 186 bodies recovered
WORKERS from Ukraine’s emergency services have now explored 18 square kilometres about the broad MH17 crash site and found 186 bodies from the flight. …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis shows divisions in old Soviet bloc
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Poland’s foreign minister had sharp words on the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jumbo jet in Ukraine blaming the crash on Russia-backed “bandits.” But throughout most of central and eastern Europe, leaders… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
