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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Putin says crash should not be used for ‘mercenary objectives’ as UN prepares vote for access to site
Russian President Putin has condemned what he says is the exploitation of MH17 for “mercenary objectives,” as rescue workers continue to plough through the remains of the downed plane and the UN Security Council prepares to vote on a resolution demanding full and unfettered access to the Ukraine crash site. …read more Source:...
Swedish reporters detained while reporting on MH17 tragedy
Two journalists from a leading Swedish newspaper were detained yesterday by pro-Russian separatists while they were attempting to report on the MH17 atrocity in eastern Ukraine.Paul Hansen and Jan Lewenhagen, of Dagens Nyheter, were at the morgue in Donetsk when the separatists detained them and then confined them to a building with another seven...
Putin: MH17 Observers Need To Be Protected
Moscow says experts investigating flight MH17 must be kept safe as the UK says tougher sanctions on Russia “may well be required”. …read more Source: Sky...
A chilling echo of Nazi death trains as MH17 victims begin the grimmest journey
The stench of death is thick in the air as onlookers peer inside a freight train containing the bodies of some 200 victims of the MH17 massacre, writes IAN BIRRELL in Grabovo, eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
MH17: ‘Terrorists Blocking Train Of Bodies’
The first train containing bodies from the MH17 crash site is being blocked by “terrorists”, the Ukrainian government has said. …read more Source: Sky...
DOMINIC LAWSON: Conspiracy theories and the useful idiots who are happy to believe Putin’s lies
Dominic Lawson writes about the propaganda machine of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The media organs of the Russian state are concocting alternative accounts of why 298 men, women and children were blown out of the skies above Eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: ‘Make Putin’s oligarchs pay for Ukraine disaster’
Prominent Russian oligarchs, businesses and politicians could face wide-ranging and draconian new EU sanctions as the West united to punish Moscow for the shooting down of Flight MH17. …read more Source: The...
Malaysia Airlines plane shot down: Australians send head of MH370 search to oversee recovery effort
Australian PM Tony Abbott dispatches MH370 search head Angus Houston to Ukraine to oversee Australia’s MH17 recovery effort, saying the crash site is “like a garden clean-up” …read more Source: The...
Malaysia Airlines crash site ‘absolutely shambolic’, says Australian PM video
Tony Abbott has branded the scene at the site of the MH17 disaster ‘absolutely shambolic’ and pushed for the repatriation of the 37 Australians killed. Abbott also said that in his most recent conversations with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president had ‘said all the right things’, ‘but the challenge now is to hold...
MH17: Abbott says Australia would take Russian veto of resolution ‘very badly’
Australian PM Tony Abbott says world leaders are strengthening their resolve over the downing of the Malaysia Airlines planeTony Abbott has warned Australia would take it very badly if Russia vetoed its UN security council resolution for full unfettered access by international investigators to the MH17 crash site as he described the mood of...
