Section: US & Canada
'Massive explosive decompression' downed MH17: Kiev
Downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may be a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says …read more Source: The Globe and...
Access hindered to MH17 site
Uncertainty hangs over an international effort to retrieve human remains from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Fighting forces police team to turn back from Ukraine crash site
An international police team has failed to reach the crash site of a Malaysian Airlines plane for a second day running as clashes rage in a town on the road to the area. …read more Source: CTV...
Japan to step up sanctions against Russia following Malaysian airliner disaster
Japan is stepping up sanctions against Russia over the unrest in Ukraine. …read more Source: FOX...
Russia hopes for ‘impartial’ Malaysia jet crash investigation
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday dug his heels in on the war in Ukraine and Russia’s alleged involvement in the conflict, saying that Kiev had overstepped its bounds in fighting the insurgency. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
US: Russia has fired rockets into Ukraine
WASHINGTON — Stepping up pressure on Moscow, the U.S. has released satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for separatists has crossed the border. …read more Source: Boston...
Black boxes show MH17 suffered massive decompression after shrapnel hit
A Ukrainian security spokesman says data from the recovered flight data recorders shows Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed due to a massive, explosive loss of pressure after being punctured multiple times by shrapnel. …read more Source:...
Ukraine: Missile Shrapnel Destroyed Plane
Data retrieved from the black boxes aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 showed the plane was destroyed by “massive explosive decompression” caused by shrapnel from a missile, Ukrainian authorities said. …read more Source: The Wall Street...
World War I Anniversary: Five Historians, Two Questions
One hundred years after the beginning of World War I, historians are still wondering how it started. Meanwhile many of the rest of us wonder if the global situation today is as perilous as it was on the eve of that cataclysm. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Black boxes show MH17 suffered massive decompression after hit
A Ukrainian security spokesman says data from the recovered flight data recorders shows Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed due to a massive, explosive loss of pressure after being punctured multiple times by shrapnel. …read more Source: CTV...
