Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
Malaysia Airlines MH17 wreckage reconstruction unveiled by crash investigators – video
Dutch investigators reveal a partial reconstruction of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which came down over Ukraine in July last year, killing 298 people. The wreckage was revealed ahead of a press conference at the Gilze-Rijen Air Base in the Netherlands by the Dutch safety board, which confirmed that the plane was bought down by a Buk...
MH17: plane partially reconstructed as crash report blames Buk missile strike
Dutch Safety Board says it found sufficient reason to close airspace above eastern Ukraine, which Kiev had failed to doA partial-reconstruction of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, shot down in July 2014 over eastern Ukraine with the deaths of all 298 on board, was unveiled on Tuesday as the Dutch safety board published its report into the...
MH17 crash report to be published by Dutch investigators – live updates
Dutch Safety Board expected to say missile hit plane over UkraineReport will not apportion blameOpen source evidence points to Russian involvement 10.10am BSTThe father of a British man who was killed when MH17came down says he hopes the report will conclude that all of the passengers were killed as soon as the plane was hit.Barry Sweeney’s...
MH17: Dutch to unveil official crash report
Investigators to give technical account of how Malaysia Airlines flight came down in Ukraine but will not apportion blameThe father of a British man who was killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 came down over eastern Ukraine says he hopes an official report into the crash, to be released later on Tuesday, will conclude that all of the...
MH17 crash report is set for release, but it is unlikely to offer closure
Technical report on 2014 air disaster in Ukraine will avoid ‘blame and culpability’ – though its evidence may further bolster argument Russia was involvedIn a hangar at an airfield in southern Holland, a ghost has been conjured from the gloom. Over the past nine months Dutch investigators have been fitting together pieces of recovered plane...
Ukraine could destroy 3.7m polio vaccines despite risk of major outbreak
Unvaccinated children at risk as healthcare lobbyists claim UN-donated vaccines are unsafe in spite of assurances from World Health OrganisationA healthcare lobby group is arguing for the destruction of 3.7 million polio vaccines donated to Ukraine by the UN, despite the risk (pdf) that a new outbreak of the disease could spread across the...
Loose ends in efforts to untangle the Gordian knot of Syria | Letters
Every means possible should of course be explored to protect Syrian civilians from the various foreigners waging war in their country (Editorial, 2 October).However, having asserted that removing Assad is a precondition for ending the war, you have a duty to explain what the alternative is. Your front-page story (Putin moves to prop up Assad, 2...
Abandoned places – in pictures
The French photographer David de Rueda travels the world in search of unusual places. He is captivated by the aesthetic beauty of derelict buildings and teamed up with Nikon to create a striking photo project based on abandoned places in Europe … …read more Source: The...
Moscow and Kiev in ‘positive mood’ over talks to end east Ukraine conflict
Paris talks also involving France and Germany see Russia pushing for Ukraine to take back legal control of territoriesRussian and Ukrainian officials have expressed cautious optimism following a long bout of negotiations in Paris to end the conflict in east Ukraine which has raged for a year and cost more than 8,000 lives.A Kremlin spokesman...
He called the US a wolf – now it is Putin who’s on the prowl – Natalie Nougayrède
Europe must not be tempted to trade away Ukraine for the sake of a deal with the Russians over SyriaRussia’s military action in Syria raises the stakes for Europe in a significant way, but how should we react? One temptation is to pull back from anything that might smack of provocation: the Russian bear is growling; let’s see how we...
