Section: US & Canada
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...
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...
Russia’s Putin Calls for Ukraine Cease-fire After MH17 Is Downed
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...
