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Train carrying bodies of Flight 17 victims arrives in Kyiv-controlled Kharkiv
KHARKIV, Ukraine — A train carrying the remains of people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday on their way to the Netherlands, a journey which has been agonizingly slow for relatives of the victims. An AP reporter saw the train Tuesday as it pulled into a station in Kharkiv, a...
U.S. blames Russian President Vladimir Putin, rebels for barring crash investigators
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama has demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin immediately take steps to assure that independent investigators have free and unimpeded access to the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down last week in eastern Ukraine by a surface-to-air missile. In a statement delivered...
Will the International Criminal Court prosecute anyone for downing of Malaysia Airlines jet?
As international investigators continued Monday to clamour for access to the site in Ukraine where a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was shot down, the question over whether those responsible would ever face justice remained unclear. Ukraine’s prime minister has suggested that the International Criminal Court should investigate the downing...
New satellite imagery shows MH17 crash site
New satellite imagery released Monday shows the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight that went down in eastern Ukraine July 17. The photos, released to journalists by Google, were taken by a third-party firm July 20 and 21 as international aviation experts were still making their way to the rebel-controlled region of Ukraine to investigate...
More bodies found at plane crash site in east Ukraine as UN vote looms
HRABOVE, Ukraine — Rescuers retrieved more bodies Monday in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed, killing all 298 people aboard. The chaotic rescue effort, which was marred by an outage in the refrigerated train that was to transport many of the dead, continued ahead of an expected vote later by...
Fisher: Russia’s Vladimir Putin cranks up Soviet-era propaganda machine
When a bear is cornered it becomes angrier and more unpredictable. That is where Vladimir Putin’s Russia has found itself since a Malaysian airliner was shot down out of the sky near the Russian border on Thursday. The president’s dream of making Russia a respected global player again has run into trouble at its first stop in Ukraine....
Photos July 20: Top images from around the world
People release pigeons during an annual memorial ceremony for the victims of Spain’s Franco regime on the San Simon Island, near Vigo, on July 20, 2014. During the Spanish Civil War, the San Simon Island, located at the end of the bay of Vigo, was used as a concentration camp for republicans prisoners, many of whom were executed without...
Complete list of passengers and crew on flight MH17
Malaysia Airlines has released the manifest for flight MH17, the plane that was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday. The list of 298 passengers and crew includes Canadian Andei Anghel, a 24-year-old man from Ontario who had been studying medicine in Romania. The other people on board include 193 from the Netherlands, 43 from Malaysia, 27 from...
Ukraine: Russia is helping separatists destroy Malaysia Airlines crash evidence
By Peter Leonard KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of assisting separatist rebels in destroying evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down with 298 people onboard. The government in Kyiv said militiamen have removed 38 bodies from the crash site and have taken them to the rebel-held city of Donetsk....
Fisher: How long until the West takes meaningful action against Russia?
What to do about Russia? The question that has been largely unanswered since Moscow seized Crimea in March and subsequently began encouraging a violent revolt by ethnic Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. The question looms much larger since 298 people were killed Thursday when the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet they were travelling on was...
