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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Russia votes for independent investigation into downing of jet in UN Security Council
After days of heavy diplomatic pressure, Russia joined with other nations on the United Nations Security Council this evening in voting in support of a resolution demanding an independent investigation into the downing of MH17 over eastern Ukraine and an end and to military activity around the crash site. …read more Source: The...
How far do EU-US sanctions on Russia go?
Do Western sanctions hurt the Russian elite? …read more Source:...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: France and Germany accused of going soft on Putin as sanctions talks stall
American and British attempts to persuade other European leaders to impose a package of tough new EU sanctions on Russia appeared to have stalled this evening. …read more Source: The...
Bodies, black boxes handed over from Ukraine crash site
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – The remains of some of the nearly 300 victims of the Malaysia Airlines plane downed over Ukraine were making their way to the Netherlands on Tuesday as a senior Ukrainian separatist leader handed over the plane’s black boxes to Malaysian experts. …read more Source:...
MH17 death train carrying bodies of 298 crash victims FINALLY sets off to morgue as Russia agrees to hand black boxes to the Malaysians
Finally, after repeated calls from leaders to speed up the chaotic clean-up operation, officials at the site in eastern Ukraine have agreed to hand over the bodies to the Dutch at 7pm today. …read more Source: Daily...
China stays quiet on MH17 disaster
Closer Sino-Russian relations mean Chinese leaders are loth to apportion blame for downing of Malaysia Airlines planeWhile western countries are pressing Russia over the MH17 disaster, China has so far steered clear of stating even that a missile downed the plane, let alone tying the event to rebels in Ukraine.That has been little surprise to...
MH17: Obama says Putin ‘directly responsible’ for investigators’ safety
Russian leader must ‘compel separatists to cooperate’ Secure recovery of bodies is ‘least that decency demands’ Dutch experts arrive at scene as violence resumesMH17: live coveragePresident Barack Obama says his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, should be held “directly responsible” for ensuring the site of...
‘MH17 lost speed, altitude and veered 14km off course before being tailed by Ukrainian jet’: Sensational claims from Russia who say ‘all will be revealed in the black box’
Senior military sources today attempted to shift the blame on to Ukraine with the theory, which opposes that put forward by the West. It came as victims’ bodies continued to decompose in eastern Ukraine (pictured). …read more Source: Daily...
Russia challenges US accusations on MH17
Defence ministry in Moscow says its radar registered a Ukrainian military aircraft sweeping up towards Flight MH17 immediately before Boeing disappeared from radar …read more Source: Financial...
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17: Forensic team arrives at the crash site in Ukraine
Forensic team begins examining bodies from the plane disaster in Ukraine …read more Source: The...
