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Dutch repatriation ceremony to honour more MH17 victims
Jul25

Dutch repatriation ceremony to honour more MH17 victims

The remains of 74 more people who died when Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down last week are set to return to the Netherlands on Friday as the Australian and Dutch governments pushed to secure the site where the jet was downed in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...

Dutch repatriation ceremony honours more MH17 victims
Jul25

Dutch repatriation ceremony honours more MH17 victims

The remains of 74 more people who died when Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 returned to the Netherlands on Friday as the Australian and Dutch governments pushed to secure the site where the Malaysian Airlines was downed in Ukraine. …read more Source:...

MH17: Europe crafts preliminary deal on Russia sanctions over Ukraine
Jul25

MH17: Europe crafts preliminary deal on Russia sanctions over Ukraine

Ambassadors asked the EU’s Executive Commission to draw up a legal text setting out economic sanctions that the EU would impose for possible agreement next week …read more Source: The Globe and...

Rebels attack troops from Russia, says Ukrainian army
Jul25

Rebels attack troops from Russia, says Ukrainian army

Ukrainian forces are trying to close in on the rebels, cutting them off from the border with Russia which Kyiv believes is the source of arms. …read more Source: Toronto...

Ukraine says overnight rebel attacks on border crossing come from Russian side
Jul25

Ukraine says overnight rebel attacks on border crossing come from Russian side

MOSCOW — The Ukrainian army on Friday claimed that soldiers came under artillery fire from the Russian side of the border overnight and were attacked by rebels in several other places in the restive east. Ukrainian forces are trying to close in on the rebels, cutting them off from the border with Russia which Kyiv believes is the source of...

French president says no survivors in Air Algerie crash
Jul25

French president says no survivors in Air Algerie crash

PARIS — French president Francois Hollande announced Friday that there were no survivors in the crash of an Air Algeria MD-83 aircraft. The jetliner carrying 116 people — including five Canadians — crashed Thursday in a rainstorm over restive Mali, and its wreckage was found near the border of neighbouring Burkina Faso. It was...

MH17: Australia nears deal to send troops to secure Ukraine crash site
Jul25

MH17: Australia nears deal to send troops to secure Ukraine crash site

Armed pro-Russian separatists control the area and have hampered investigators’ attempts to access the site …read more Source: The Globe and...

Ukraine reports overnight rebel attacks on border crossing
Jul25

Ukraine reports overnight rebel attacks on border crossing

The Ukrainian army on Friday claimed that soldiers came under artillery fire from the Russian side of the border overnight and were attacked by rebels in several other places in the restive east. …read more Source: CTV...

Australia readies 90 police officers for Ukraine crash site
Jul25

Australia readies 90 police officers for Ukraine crash site

Australia is close to finalizing a deal with Ukraine to send police and a small number of troops to secure the Malaysian plane crash site as part of a multinational team, the Australian prime minister said Friday. …read more Source: CTV...

Australia readies 90 police to secure Malaysian jet crash site
Jul25

Australia readies 90 police to secure Malaysian jet crash site

Australia is close to finalizing a deal with Ukraine to send police and a small number of troops to secure the Malaysian plane crash site as part of a multinational team, the Australian prime minister said Friday. …read more Source:...