Section: US & Canada
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,...
Britain to Formally Investigate Former Russian Spy’s Death
Britain said it would launch a formal inquiry into the death seven years ago of ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, but they said it has nothing to do with suspected Russian involvement in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine last week. Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokesman said there is “no link whatsoever”...
They Did This? In Rebel Country, Disbelief
In eastern Ukraine, many residents may side with the pro-Russian rebels, but they don’t see the fighters as capable of having taking down the Malaysia Airlines plane with a missile. …read more Source: The New York...
Pentagon team dispatched to Ukraine amid crisis with Russia
A team of Pentagon officials is heading to Ukraine to help the country rebuild its fractured military, a mission that lawmakers and analysts expect will result in recommendations for greater military assistance in the country’s fight against pro-Russia separatists amid international outrage over the downing of a commercial airplane. Within...
Safe skies? How pilots avoid flying near conflict hot spots
Whether or not airspace is “safe” may not always be best judged by the nation controlling it. That was made clear following outrage over the doomed Malaysian Airlines jet’s flight path over volatile Ukraine, and again when international airlines ordered their Tel Aviv-bound commercial jets to divert due to rocket attacks....
Ukrainians, Awaiting International Action After Crash, Fear Complacency
Although the investigation into the downing of a Malaysian jetliner is in its early stages, the lack of a swift concrete response and aggressive denials by Russia have many Ukrainians worried. …read more Source: The New York...
US: Russia ‘created the conditions’ for shoot-down
A Malaysian air crash investigator takes pictures of wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. A team of M… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
Obama Pledges Justice In Visit To Dutch Embassy
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama paid tribute Tuesday to the nearly 200 citizens of the Netherlands who died when a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down in Ukraine, visiting the Netherlands Embassy in Washington and pledging unity during a phone call with the Dutch leader. At the embassy, Obama said he wanted to assure the Dutch...
Putin’s Power: Why Russians Adore Their Bare-Chested Reagan
There he is, the President of Russia, riding bare-back and bare-chested astride a galloping steed; spending $50 billion on a resort town most Russians will never see; seizing Crimea, instigating unrest in Ukraine; maybe even making himself indirectly responsible for the murder of nearly 300 innocents aboard a downed passenger plane: Vladimir...
