Section: US & Canada
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...
Q and A: Sen. Raynell Andreychuk on judges, ethics and Ukraine
Conservative Sen. Raynell Andreychuk is a former judge and ambassador who chairs the committee overseeing the Senate’s new ethics and conflict of interest code. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Q. Justice Minister Peter MacKay recently made controversial remarks on female judges. What was it like for you to be a woman...
UN to vote as early as Monday on crash resolution
Australia’s foreign minister says an urgent vote could take place as early as Monday in the U.N. Security Council on a resolution demanding international access to the Ukraine plane crash site. …read more Source: Miami...
MH17 Ukraine Crash: Russian Roulette II
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UN Security Council to vote as early as Monday on Ukraine crash investigation
Australia’s foreign minister says an urgent vote could take place as early as Monday in the U.N. …read more Source: FOX...
Researchers killed in Malaysia Airlines crash honoured by AIDS Conference
Officials held a moment of silence at the opening of the 20th International AIDS Conference for colleagues killed in the MH17 crash over Ukraine. …read more Source: Toronto...
Bodies from downed jet piled in boxcars in Ukraine
TOREZ, Ukraine — Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders that the rebels were tampering with the site. …read more Source: Boston...
