Section: US & Canada
Dutch Experts Hope To Travel To Plane Crash Site
A team of Dutch experts is hoping to travel to the crash site of the Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine on July 21. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Focus shifts to trainload of bodies from plane crash site in Ukraine
The battle for control at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 entered a new chapter Sunday focused on the fate of victims’ bodies, and U.S. and British leaders pointed fingers at Russia for nurturing the separatists suspected of bringing down the airliner. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EDT
US tries to make case that Ukraine separatists downed passenger plane, with Russian complicity WASHINGTON (AP) – Video of a rocket launcher, one surface-to-air missile missing, leaving the likely launch site. Imagery showing the firing. Calls claiming credit for the strike. Recordings said to reveal a cover-up at … …read more...
John Kerry: Growing evidence Russia armed rebels that shot down plane
Pro-Russia separatists seized control of recovered bodies from the downed Malaysian airliner Sunday in eastern Ukraine as U.S. and international officials urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to rein in the rebels so investigators could have unimpeded access to the crash site. Secretary of State John F. Kerry also said there … …read...
U.S. builds case against rebels, Russia
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration expanded its case Sunday accusing Ukrainian separatists and Russian forces of working hand in hand to acquire and operate a missile battery believed to have shot down a Malaysia Airlines jetliner last week, killing nearly 300 people. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
Putin blames others for exploiting Ukraine crash
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has lambasted those who use the downing of a passenger jet in eastern Ukraine for “mercenary objectives,” the Kremlin said Monday.In a statement posted on the Kremlin website, Putin again lashed out at Ukraine for ongoing violence with pro-Russian rebels in the eastern part of the...
Russia could lose sovereign immunity if implicated in Flight 17 downing
The Russian Federation and its agents may face civil and criminal liability if it is proved that the Kremlin or its operatives supplied the missile that Ukrainian separatists are suspected to have used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Pro-Russia separatists reportedly have taken custody of the jetliner’s black … …read...
Putin blames others for exploiting Ukraine crash
Putin also says he supports a crash investigation by a “full team of experts” under the auspices of the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency. Since a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet was downed Thursday over Ukraine, killing everyone on board, the U.S. and others have blamed Moscow, which they say supplies and...
U.S. Presses Case Against Russia On Downed Jet
By Anton Zverev and Matt Spetalnick HRABOVE, Ukraine/WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims’ remains. Kerry demanded that...
UN to vote on crash resolution; Russia has doubts
CANBERRA, Australia — The U.N. Security Council will vote Monday on an Australia-proposed resolution demanding international access to the Ukraine plane crash site and a cease-fire around the area, with diplomats pressuring a reluctant Russia to approve it.Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said his country would view a Russian veto of...
