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Malaysia Airlines crash: AIDS experts devastated by loss of colleagues
Leading members of the AIDS research community pay tribute to colleagues who were travelling on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 when it crashed in Ukraine …read more Source: The...
World leaders under pressure to ‘bring those b******* to justice’ for bringing down flight MH17 amid warnings of a ‘war at the heart of Europe’
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said world leaders needed to realised there was ‘a war in the heart of Europe’ taking place, amid growing fury at Moscow’s backing the pro-Russian separatists suspected of carrying out the assault. …read more Source: Daily...
SBU intercepts pro-Russian separatists’ phone conversations: Moment rebels ‘realized they had shot down a jetliner’ released by Ukrainian government
Ukrainian security services claim to have intercepted two phone conversations in which pro-Russian separatists appear to admit to shooting down Flight MH17, railing, ‘They shouldn’t be f*****g flying. There is a war going on.’ …read more Source: Daily...
Ukrainian PM launches furious attack on Russia – but Moscow claims Kiev shot down MH17
Flight MH17, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft, exploded into flames at 33,000ft as it was hit by a surface-to-air missile over territory near Donetsk held by pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: Daily...
How flight MH17 was obliterated in just 12 seconds
The aircraft was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a the BUK missile system over territory near Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Daily...
Putin Defensive Over Ukraine Plane Tragedy
The Russian president says the “awful tragedy” would not have happened if military action had not resumed in southeast Ukraine. …read more Source: Sky...
Russian media point finger at Kiev
Reports of the crash on Russian state controlled broadcasters avoided any suggestion that the separatists may have been responsible …read more Source: Financial...
Was MH17 flying through Ukraine warzone to save fuel?
Safety watchdogs will investigate the doomed passenger jet’s flight plan to see why the aircraft was flying through a warzone. …read more Source: Daily...
MH17 crash: what we know so far
Following new developments and global reaction overnight, here is a roundup of the current state of play around Thursday’s crash in the UkraineFollow today’s live blog on the MH17 crashAuthorities have updated the death toll to 298 people killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine, near the Russian border, to...
Malaysia Airlines crash: Joep Lange among up to 100 Aids researchers and activists on board flight MH17
A prominent Aids expert was among up to 100 scientists, activists, researchers and health workers who died in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash in Ukraine. …read more Source: The...
