THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — It is no longer only grief and mourning sweeping across the Netherlands in the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Fredriksz-Hoogzand was among scores of victims’ relatives expected at a behind-closed-doors meeting Monday near the central city of Utrecht, where they were to be consoled by King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Lawmakers hurried back from their summer recess for a meeting Monday with Rutte, who told them that getting the bodies home as soon as possible was his government’s top priority.
Right-wing lawmaker Louis Bontes urged the government to send …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
