Section: US & Canada
Bodies of Malaysia Airlines crash victims bound for Netherlands
The first bodies of victims of the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 will be flown to the Netherlands Wednesday for formal identification and forensic examination, six days after the Boeing 777 fell out of the sky and into a field in eastern Ukraine, near the border with Russia. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine prepares departure ceremony for bodies of Malaysia jet victims
Ukraine is preparing a departure ceremony for the bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster, which are being flown to the Netherlands. …read more Source:...
In international flight, volatile conflicts abound
In Africa, the entire Sahel region is awash with weapons that include portable air defense systems leftover from the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi. The world is pockmarked with volatile hot spots stretching from West Africa to Central Asia — a wide arc where commercial flights and airline passengers could potentially be at risk from...
Bodies of Malaysia jet victims to leave Ukraine
Ukraine is preparing a departure ceremony for the bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster, which are being flown to the Netherlands. …read more Source: Miami...
Bodies of Malaysia jet victims to leave Ukraine
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukraine is preparing a departure ceremony for the bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster, which are being flown to the Netherlands.Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Wednesday’s ceremony was set for 11 a.m. local time (0800 GMT) at the airport in Kharkiv. Dutch officials say at least 200...
Bodies of Malaysia jet victims to leave Ukraine
U.S. officials say Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was probably shot down by a missile on Thursday, and fell on territory controlled by pro-Russian separatists who have been battling the Kiev government since April. …read more Source: San Francisco...
Ukraine Vice PM: bodies of Malaysia jet disaster victims to be flown to the Netherlands
Ukraine is preparing a departure ceremony for the bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster, which are being flown to the Netherlands. …read more Source: FOX...
Putin can’t back down now
Pressure from at home and narrative he has constructed is preventing the Russian President from discontinuing support for rebels in Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
Ukraine jet disaster won’t distract Australia from solving first Malaysia Airlines catastrophe
Australia says the hunt for the Malaysian airliner that vanished off the Australian coast continues uninterrupted despite the top search official shifting his attention to recovering bodies from the Ukraine air disaster. …read more Source: FOX...
Work continues in recovering bodies at Ukraine crash site
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Bodies and the flight recorders from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, destroyed by a missile last week over eastern Ukraine, were delivered safely Tuesday from rebel control to this northeast Ukrainian city. Forensics officials raised the strong possibility that the remains of many victims were still buried in the wreckage,...
