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Photos July 20: Top images from around the world
People release pigeons during an annual memorial ceremony for the victims of Spain’s Franco regime on the San Simon Island, near Vigo, on July 20, 2014. During the Spanish Civil War, the San Simon Island, located at the end of the bay of Vigo, was used as a concentration camp for republicans prisoners, many of whom were executed without...
Malaysia plane crash in Ukraine: Black box likely in separatist hands
The mystery over the whereabouts of the black box of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 seemed to clear up—a little—on Sunday when video surfaced of separatist emergency workers coming upon the device in a field in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
US outlines case against Russia on downed plane
“A buildup of extraordinary circumstantial evidence … it’s powerful here,” said Secretary of State John Kerry, a former prosecutor, and it holds Russian-supported rebels in eastern Ukraine responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, with the Kremlin complicit in the deaths of nearly 300 passengers and crew...
Russian Media on Malaysian Flight MH17 Tragedy: Epic Fail
The Russian media has made one thing clear in the aftermath of the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17: it generates a view of the world corresponding to the political needs of the Kremlin. Yet even the Kremlin spin machine has been incapable of coming up with a plausible account of this tragedy that could deflect responsibility from...
Distraught Dutch mother: 'Send my children home'
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A distraught, grieving mother summed up a swelling mood of despair and anguish in the Netherlands on Sunday at faltering efforts to repatriate the bodies of loved ones killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, appealing directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to return the bodies of her son and his...
AIDS Conference Honors Victims Of MH17
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An international AIDS conference opened in Australia on Sunday with a tribute to several delegates who were killed en route to the gathering when their plane was shot down over Ukraine. Officials at the opening ceremony for the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne held a moment of silence for the six...
Malaysian jetliner downing – Ukraine rebels may have lacked system to distinguish between military, civilian aircraft
If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn’t have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts have told Associated Press. More from the Associated Press article: American officials said Friday that they believe the Boeing 777 was...
Malaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash: Australia Mulls G20 Putin Ban
The giant Létourneau pipe organ at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral sounded particularly somber Sunday morning as Prime Minister Tony Abbott and other Australian dignitaries joined hundreds of mourners at a service to commemorate victims of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was most likely hit by a missile before crashing...
Kerry offers more evidence Russia provided missile that downed jet
Secretary of State John Kerry gave the most detailed account yet of the circumstantial evidence indicating that Russia provided the missiles that shot down a Malaysia Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine, but denied that the administration has reached a conclusion about Russia’s involvement. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Observers in talks to take custody of bodies from MH17 plane crash
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said European monitors at the site of the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are negotiating with pro-Russia separatists to bring a train that is holding dead bodies from the flight under the control of the Ukrainian government. …read more Source:...
