Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
MH17: relatives in the Netherlands await victims’ bodies video
Military aircraft prepare to fly the first bodies retrieved from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 to Eindhoven in the Netherlands. One hundred and ninety-three Dutch nationals were among the 298 people killed when the flight was shot down by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. Wednesday is a day of national mourning in the country … …read...
Australia’s Tony Abbott criticises search for MH17 bodies as ‘unprofessional’ video
The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, says trying to determine the number of bodies retrieved from the site of the MH17 crash has been difficult. Abbott says a number of factors including heat and interference from wildlife are hindering an already ‘unprofessional’ effort. He says his country will do its ‘absolute...
MH17: BBC veteran supports Sky News reporter over his ‘error of judgment’
Colin Brazier has apologised for his “serious error of judgment” in rifling through a child’s suitcase during a live Sky News broadcast from the MH17 disaster area in Ukraine. Although he has been widely condemned, a former BBC reporter, Andy Johnson, has written a supportive blog pleading: “Let’s not hang Colin...
MH17: governor general Peter Cosgrove to receive bodies in Netherlands
He will join special envoy Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston to take change of remains as part of Operation Bring Them HomeThe governor general, Peter Cosgrove, has been sent to the Netherlands to receive the aircraft carrying the remains of the victims of the flight MH17 crash as reports emerged there may not be as many of the bodies recovered as...
MH17: Rebels likely shot down plane ‘by mistake’ live updates
US says no evidence of Russias direct involvementEyewitnesses tell the Guardian of likely Buk system in TorezEU foreign ministers line up new sanctions on RussiansInternational teams receive trains carrying bodies in KharkivHeavy fighting roils on near Donetsk and Luhansk 9.27am AESTRussian must face increasing costs if it continues to support...
MH17: US intelligence says Russia ‘created conditions’ for plane disaster
US officials stop short of blaming crash directly on Moscow and say separatists likely shot down plane by accidentUS intelligence officials accused Moscow of “creating the conditions” that resulted in the death of 298 people aboard the Malaysian Airlines jet shot down last week over a part of Ukraine controlled by Russia-backed...
Flight MH17: identification begins after bodies from crash site arrive in Kharkiv
Interpol says it has begun preliminary work on remains, which are to be flown to the Netherlands this weekInternational experts have begun the process of identifying the bodies of those who died in last Thursday’s Malaysian Airlines plane crash, after a train carrying their remains arrived in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on...
EU announces further sanctions on Russia after downing of MH17
Proposals will not be applied immediately as Putin urges rebels to cooperate with investigators for the first timeThe European Union will expand its sanctions blacklist to target Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and draw up further broad measures including an arms embargo and financial restrictions on Russian businesses, EU foreign ministers...
Ukraine’s ‘hotheads’ | @guardianletters
Angus Roxburgh (Comment, 22 July) describes the “rebels” in eastern Ukraine as “drunken, gun-toting hotheads”. Some facts are in order. Ukraine’s democratically elected President Yanukovich was overthrown in a western-backed and largely fascist-led coup. In response the people of Donetsk and Luhansk, who had...
Why did so many people share graphic images of MH17 crash site on social media?
Horrific and unfiltered images of plane debris, dead bodies and the personal belongings of those who died in the Malaysian Airlines crash were shared widely on social media within minutes of the disasterEyewitness photos from the crash site of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 appeared on Twitter within minutes of it crashing into fields near the...
