Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
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...
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...
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: 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...
Martin Rowson on the world’s current conflicts cartoon
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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...
Three pro-Russia rebel leaders at the centre of suspicions over downed MH17
Igor Strelkov, Igor Bezler and Nikolai Kozitsyn reportedly discussed the shooting down of a plane soon after jet explodedAs the world searches for answers over the Malaysia Airlines flight downed in eastern Ukraine, suspicion has fallen on the leaders of the pro-Russia rebels who have shot down three government planes in the past week.Attention...
Punishing Russia for the MH17 tragedy will not help Ukraine | Oliver Bullough
Anger at Russias actions is hardening. Yet our leaders should recognise that the west had its own role in Ukraines collapseUntil Thursday, the world was ready to let Ukraine fail: hollowed out by corruption, dismembered by Russia, given up on by western countries. The downing of flight MH17 has changed that.Visitors can be forgiven for not...
