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:...
Ukraine rebels claim to have black boxes, have moved bodies to trains
Rebel leader says crucial evidence from downed MH17 will be handed over to International Civil Aviation Organization; U.S. intel detects movement of SA-11s into Russia …read more Source:...
Separatists storing Ukraine crash site bodies in railway cars
As many as 169 bodies from the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 have been placed in body bags and stored in refrigerated railway cars in Eastern Ukraine, a spokesman for an international monitoring group said Sunday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Malaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash: Rebels Will Hand Over Black Boxes
MoreMalaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash: Families Left in Limbo‘Unreal’ Scenes from UkraineMalaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash: Who Shot Down Flight MH17?Pro-Russia rebels in Ukraine will turn over the black boxes from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to European aviation officials, the separatists’ leaders said Sunday. Flight 17 is widely...
Most Bodies From Downed Malaysian Plane Removed From Crash Site
According to reports, more than 190 bodies of the 298 people aboard a downed Malaysian airliner have been taken from the field in eastern Ukraine where they had been lying since July 17. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
First Video to Show “Black Box” at Ukraine Crash Site
Newly released Reuters video shows men — wearing Ukrainian Emergency Ministry uniforms — recovering a flight recorder from the Malaysian airlines crash site. A man’s voice is heard saying “flight recorder” in Russian. The video was recorded Friday. On Sunday, the Ukrainian Separatist leader said they had found parts...
Ukraine: Rebels Took All Bodies From Plane Crash
TOREZ, Ukraine (AP) — 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. The key question of who controlled the collection...
