Section: US & Canada
Tributes Round the World for Victims of Ukraine Crash
Prayers and tributes across the world for the victims of the Malaysian airliner, which crashed in eastern Ukraine. Here in Sydney, Australia’s Ukrainian community mourned the deaths of the 298 passengers on board MH17 with tears and songs. The victims came from 11 countries, and their deaths are felt across four continents. In the...
OSCE Team Allowed To See Part Of Crash Site
Armed separatists in eastern Ukraine have allowed international inspectors to visit a field strewn with debris from a Malaysian airliner that was shot down on July 17, killing all 298 people aboard. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
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 says Russia helping destroy crash evidence
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of helping separatist rebels destroy evidence at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane shot down in rebel-held territory with 298 people onboard. While the delegation was leaving under orders from armed rebel overseers, two Ukrainian members lingered to look at a fragment of the...
Crash site in Ukraine goes neglected
Debris from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lay splayed for miles across silent rural fields in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. Two days after the jet crashed, some bodies remained strapped in seat belts — wearing inflight headphones. …read more Source:...
Malaysia very 'concerned' over crash site security
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — 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.”Liow Tiong Lai said at a news conference Saturday in Kuala Lumpur that “the...
Ukraine: Russia Helping to Destroy Crash Evidence
Ukraine has accused Russia of assisting pro-Russian separatists in destroying evidence at the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines flight shot down with 298 people onboard. The government said Saturday the rebels have removed 38 bodies from the site and taken them to the insurgent-controlled city of Donetsk. Ukraine said the separatist rebels were...
Ukraine crisis shows divisions in old Soviet bloc
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. …read more Source:...
Plane crash in Ukraine unlikely to halt deepening divisions in old Soviet bloc on Russia
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. …read more Source: FOX...
Ukraine crisis shows divisions in old Soviet bloc
With uncertainty surrounding Thursday’s plane crash, most have little to gain from pointing fingers, especially since the tragedy, which killed 298 people, is unlikely to blunt Russia’s growing clout in the region, experts say. On the plane crash, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said there’s still “no clarity,”...
