Section: US & Canada
Russian missile smuggled into Ukraine before Malaysia jet downed: tapes
Secretly intercepted chatter suggests a deadly Russian missile system was smuggled across the border to Ukraine just hours before a Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down. …read more Source: New York Daily...
US: Can't rule out Russian role in plane downing
UNITED NATIONS — U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Friday that the United States cannot rule out that Russia helped in the launch of the surface-to-air missile that shot down a Malaysia Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board.Power said the U.S. believes the...
Defense Minister: Ukraine Troops Control Part Of Luhansk
Ukraine’s Defense Minister has told President Petro Poroshenko that government troops had taken control of the southeastern part of the city of Luhansk in the country’s east. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
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...
Australian loses family in both Malaysian flight disasters
SYDNEY – In an almost incomprehensible twist of fate, an Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learned on Friday that her stepdaughter was on the plane shot down over Ukraine. …read more Source: Calgary...
Putin urges Ukraine cease-fire after plane attack
ROZSYPNE, Ukraine — Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners spread out Friday across the sunflower fields and villages of eastern Ukraine, searching the wreckage of a jetliner shot down as it flew miles above the country’s battlefield.The attack Thursday afternoon killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations...
