Section: The United Kingdom
Parents visit Malaysia Airlines crash site in Ukraine ‘to find daughter’
Australia parents ignore officials warnings to fly to crash site in eastern Ukraine to find their daughter, Fatima Dyczynski, 25, who was on MH17 …read more Source: The...
Dutch, Australians seek MH17 access
The Netherlands and Australia seek access to the rebel-controlled crash site of MH17 in eastern Ukraine as more bodies are flown out. …read more Source:...
Australia sends 100 more police for MH17 mission, as rhetoric softens
Police may be armed and backed up by defence personnel, but Tony Abbott stresses their only brief is to bring bodies homeAustralia is sending 100 more federal police officers to Europe in the hope they will be able to join a Dutch-led mission to secure the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.Tony Abbott said some of the police could...
US says new evidence shows Russia ‘firing artillery into Ukraine’
US officials claim to have evidence that Russia has been firing artillery from within its own territory across the border into Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
MH17 crash victim Cameron Dalziel ‘had credit cards stolen’
One of the British victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has had his belongings stolen from the crash site in eastern Ukraine, his brother-in-law has said. …read more Source: The...
More journalists detained in Ukraine while reporting on MH17 tragedy
Further to my posting yesterday about the pressures placed on journalists in Ukraine, there have been more abductions. Both sides in the conflict were responsible for detaining reporters.CNN reports that a Ukrainian journalist working as a fixer for the broadcaster, Anton Skiba, is being held by pro-Russian separatists. … …read more...
MH17: Australia ready to send police to secure crash site
Tony Abbott says 90 police officers are ready to be deployed to eastern Ukraine site where Malaysia Airlines plane was downedAustralia’s prime minister has said his country is close to finalising a deal with Ukraine to send police and a small number of troops to secure the Malaysia Airlines MH17 plane crash site as part of a multinational...
Parliament says yet to receive PM’s resignation, work stalls
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament said on Friday it had yet to receive a resignation letter from Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk so could not vote on whether to accept it or not, stalling work at the heart of government. …read more Source:...
Australia to send 100 extra police, troops to Ukraine: PM Abbott
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will send 100 additional police and some defense force personnel to Europe to join a planned Dutch-led international security force to secure the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash site, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday. …read more Source:...
VIDEO: MH17 crash scene still unsecured
A week after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 came down in Ukraine, the crash site has yet to be secured raising concerns that vital evidence will be lost. …read more Source:...
