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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...
MH17: purported black box recorder being removed from crash site video
Video taken on Friday purports to show the black box recorder of flight MH17 being removed from its crash site in Ukraine, as cranes were used to remove part of the plane over the weekend. Rebel fighters say they have the black box and are prepared to hand it to international experts when they arrive in the town of Donetsk … …read...
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...
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...
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 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...
MH17: UN resolution on ensuring crash site access set for Monday
Russia will support final version in security council vote if no one is blamed, according to reports in Australian newspaper The UN security council is due to vote Monday on a resolution that would condemn the downing of a Malaysian passenger plane in Ukraine and demands that those responsible be held accountable and that armed groups do not...
