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MH17: UN resolution on ensuring crash site access set for Monday
Jul21

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...

MH17: Vladimir Putin will be held to his word on open inquiry, says Tony Abbott
Jul21

MH17: Vladimir Putin will be held to his word on open inquiry, says Tony Abbott

Australian PM says crash site appeared ‘more like a garden clean-up than a forensic investigation’Tony Abbott has insisted he will not just accept Vladimir Putins assurances of support for Australias call for a full and open investigation but will hold him to his word. … …read more Source: The...

MH17: ‘Terrorists Blocking Train Of Bodies’
Jul21

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...

MH17: Australia pushes for international access to crash site – live updates
Jul21

MH17: Australia pushes for international access to crash site – live updates

International pressure builds on Russian-backed rebels to allow free access to crash site and train containing bodies of the passengers. 10.14am AESTJust in from the Russian government’s press office, this statement from president Vladimir Putin:In connection with the terrible tragic events that occurred in the skies over the Donets, I...

Scottish MH17 victim was a former RAF rescue chief
Jul21

Scottish MH17 victim was a former RAF rescue chief

A Scottish man was among the ten Britons killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. Stephen… …read more Source: The...

Kerry attacks Russia over MH17 crash
Jul21

Kerry attacks Russia over MH17 crash

US Secretary of State John Kerry says there is overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in Ukraine. …read more Source:...

U.S. presses case against Russia on downed jet as horror deepens
Jul21

U.S. presses case against Russia on downed jet as horror deepens

HRABOVE Ukraine/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims’ remains. …read more Source:...

Martin Rowson on the world’s current conflicts  cartoon
Jul21

Martin Rowson on the world’s current conflicts cartoon

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Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: ‘Make Putin’s oligarchs pay for Flight MH17’
Jul21

Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: ‘Make Putin’s oligarchs pay for Flight MH17’

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...

Cameron tells Putin shooting down of MH17 was ‘unacceptable’
Jul21

Cameron tells Putin shooting down of MH17 was ‘unacceptable’

Anger grows in EU and leaders prepare fresh sanctions against Moscow as separatists obstruct access to crash siteDavid Cameron expressed anger about the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on Sunday as EU leaders started preparing fresh sanctions against Moscow for its alleged role in the...