Section: US & Canada
Police: 9 dead, 40 injured in bus crash in Germany
BERLIN — Nine people have died and 40 were injured when several buses crashed on a German highway near the eastern city of Dresden, police said Saturday.The crash, which happened about 2 a.m. Saturday, involved a Polish bus, a Ukrainian bus and a Polish minibus, said police spokesman Lutz Zoellner. He was unable to immediately provide...
Downed jet claimed victims from 13 countries
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The human cost of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 hit home around the world Friday, upending scores of families and small communities spanning half of the planet, from a Dutch fishing village to an Australian soccer club and a Dubai cake store.Relatives and colleagues paid emotional tribute to the dead....
Russian or Ukrainian Missiles? Obama Believes Pro-Russian Separatists Had ‘Russian Support’ in Malaysia Flight MH17 Attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States began building a case Friday linking pro-Russian separatists to the shocking downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine. A somber President Barack Obama declared the deaths of those on board, including at least one American, an “outrage of unspeakable proportions.” Obama said the U.S. believes the...
Putin Calls for Cease-fire in East Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Friday for a cease-fire by pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces fighting in eastern Ukraine to allow for negotiations. Putin said he was in contact with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko after a Boeing 777 passenger airliner came down in an area under rebel control, killing all 298...
AIDS conference attendees on downed Malaysian jet
SYDNEY (AP) — World-renowned AIDS researchers and activists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia were on the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine, officials said Friday, news that sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community. Unconfirmed reports said up to 100 passengers were going to the Victoria state...
Fidel Castro: Ukraine to blame for downed airliner
Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro is blaming the Ukrainian government in Kiev for the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane. …read more Source: Miami...
Kyiv Releases Audio Evidence That Donetsk Militants Got Antiaircraft Weapons From Russia
Ukraine’s Security Service has released more audio of purported conversations among militants in eastern Ukraine that Kyiv believes proves they received powerful Buk-M antiaircraft weapons and the crews to man them from Russia on July 14. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Malaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash: 2 Dogs Aboard Airplane
In addition to the 298 people aboard the Malaysian Airlines jet that crashed Thursday in eastern Ukraine, two dogs were also aboard the flight, according to the cargo manifest for the flight made public Friday. MH017 – Cargo Manifest 1 The Kuala Lumpur-bound Flight MH17 crashed Thursday evening in a part of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russian...
Malaysia MH17 blame game: Haunting audio shows separatists shocked they shot down civilians
Audio intercepted by Ukrainian authorities in the hours after the downed Malaysian airplane indicates that Russian separatists at first cheered what they believed was the take-down of a transport plane — and then expressed shock and anger, when they realized the craft contained civilians. The New York Times first reported …...
Fidel Castro says Ukraine to blame for downed airliner, criticizes Israel, US over Gaza action
Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro is blaming the Ukrainian government in Kiev for the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane. …read more Source: FOX...
