Section: US & Canada
AIDS conference holds moment of silence for Malaysian jet crash victims
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. …read more Source:...
Russia’s Putin Not Blinking in ‘Last Chance Saloon’
Russian President Vladimir Putin is in the “last chance saloon” over the Ukraine crisis but appears to be doing little to get out of it. Since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down over east Ukraine, Putin has been under intense international pressure to persuade pro-Russian separatists accused by the West of shooting it down...
Rebels take full control of bodies from plane crash
Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site. …read more Source: CTV...
Rebels take full control of bodies from MH17 plane crash
Rebels in eastern Ukraine took full control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, and European leaders issued a strong call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to make sure international investigators had full access to the crash site. …read more Source:...
Rebels take full control of plane crash bodies
TOREZ, Ukraine — Rebels in eastern Ukraine took full control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and European leaders issued a strong call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to make sure international investigators had full access to the crash site. …read more Source: Boston...
Pro-Russian Rebel Tweets Black Boxes In East Ukraine’s Donetsk
KIEV, July 20 (Reuters) – A pro-Russian rebel who calls himself “Novorossiya”, or New Russia, on Twitter tweeted on Sunday that the black boxes belonging to the downed Malaysian airliner had been brought to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Sergei Kavtaradze, a senior official of the pro-Russian rebels’ self-proclaimed Donetsk...
Rebels Agree to Hand Over Black Boxes From Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
TOREZ, Ukraine—Rebels have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and will hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organization, a rebel leader said Sunday. Alexander Borodai also said the bodies recovered from the crash site in eastern Ukraine would remain in refrigerated train cars at a station in the...
Rebels to give MH17 black boxes to aviation group
Rebels have recovered the black boxes from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 and will hand them over to the International Civil Aviation Organization, a rebel leader said Sunday. …read more Source:...
Rebels find Malaysian plane’s black boxes, promise to hand them over to world aviation body
HRABOVE, Ukraine — A separatist leader in eastern Ukraine says rebels have recovered the black boxes for the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. …read more Source: Calgary...
Netherlands Mourns The Many Killed In MH17
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels’ hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.The chairman of the Dutch Bishops Conference,...
