Section: US & Canada
Multiple Bus Crash Kills 9, Injures 40 in Germany
A Polish bus collided with a Ukrainian bus, and then broke through the central barrier and collided with a minibus traveling in the other direction. …read more Source:...
Ukraine Accuses Insurgents of Blocking Access to Crash Site
“Russian-led terrorists” are keeping international investigators and foreign governments from the site where Malaysian Airlines 17 crashed after being shot down by a missile, the Ukrainian government said Saturday. …read more Source: The New York...
Ukraine accuses Russia of helping destroy plane crash evidence
Kiev says militiamen removed 38 bodies from crash site and are “seeking large transports to carry away plane fragments to Russia” …read more Source:...
Ukraine crisis shows divisions in old Soviet bloc
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s foreign minister had sharp words on the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jumbo jet in Ukraine — blaming the crash on Russia-backed “bandits.” But throughout most of central and eastern Europe, leaders withheld judgment, expressing shock but refusing to say more until more facts are in....
Ukraine: Russia is helping separatists destroy Malaysia Airlines crash evidence
By Peter Leonard KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of assisting separatist rebels in destroying evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down with 298 people onboard. The government in Kyiv said militiamen have removed 38 bodies from the crash site and have taken them to the rebel-held city of Donetsk....
Forensic experts gather material to ID victims
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Forensic teams fanned out across the Netherlands on Saturday to collect material including DNA samples that will help positively identify the remains of victims killed in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine.Police said in a tweet that 40 pairs of detectives from the National Forensic...
Forensic experts gather material to ID victims
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Forensic teams fanned out across the Netherlands on Saturday to collect material including DNA samples that will help positively identify the remains of victims killed in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine. The spokesman, who declined to be named in line with company policy, said the team...
AIDS Society Mourns Researchers, Experts Killed in Crash
The International AIDS Society has confirmed that at least six high-level researchers and AIDS experts were among those killed on the Malaysia Airlines flight downed Thursday over volatile eastern Ukraine. The victims include the former president of the society, which is holding its annual week-long conference beginning Sunday in Melbourne....
Malaysia ‘deeply concerned’ MH17 crash site not secured
Malaysia’s transport minister says the country is “deeply concerned” that the site in Ukraine where a Malaysia Airlines jetliner was shot down with 298 people onboard “has not been properly secured.” …read more Source: CTV...
Analysis: Putin’s Frankenstein comes back to haunt
Russian president’s dangerous courting of nihilistic rebels in eastern Ukraine could prove impossible to control …read more Source: Toronto...
