Section: US & Canada
Scenes From the Malaysia Jet Crash Site
A Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 295 passengers and crew crashed in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, and American officials said it was most likely shot down by an antiaircraft missile. …read more Source: The New York...
Intercepted Audio of Ukraine Separatists
Ukraine released what it said is audio from intercepted phone calls between separatist rebels and Russian officers. In one call, a rebel is heard saying, “We have just shot down a plane.” …read more Source: The New York...
Putin Says Ukraine ‘Bears Responsibility’ for Jet Crash
Putin said the crash would not have happened if there was peace in Ukraine, and “the state over whose territory this took place bears responsibility.” …read more Source:...
MSNBC prankster blames Malaysia crash on Howard Stern
The caller claimed to be a sergeant with the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine. …read more Source: USA...
Voices: Global hot spots need to be put in perspective
A downed airliner in Ukraine and a violent flare-up in Gaza shake a world’s uneasy calm. …read more Source: USA...
Fisher: Moscow has a lot of explaining to do in wake of plane crash
Moscow has a lot of explaining to do about Thursday’s crash of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 civilian airliner near the Russian-Ukrainian border. Ukraine has called what happened to Flight 17 early in its journey from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur “a terrorist attack.” Mass murder is another term that accurately describes the...
Ukraine: Pro-Russia rebels downed Malaysian plane
HRABOVE, Ukraine — Ukraine accused pro-Russian separatists of shooting down a Malaysian jetliner with 298 people aboard Thursday, sharply escalating the crisis and threatening to draw both East and West deeper into the conflict. The rebels denied downing the aircraft.American intelligence authorities believe a surface-to-air missile brought...
AP Interview: Ukraine blames Russia for crash
Ukraine’s U.N. ambassador said Thursday that the Malaysian airliner would not have crashed if Russia hadn’t given pro-Russian separatists a sophisticated missile system that can hit planes. …read more Source: Miami...
Ukraine Releases Audio It Claims Proves Rebels’ Ties To Malaysia Airlines Crash
Ukraine’s intelligence agency claimed on Thursday it had intercepted phone calls that connected separatists in the country’s east to the crash of a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane. Ukraine’s state security agency, also known as S.B.U., released an edited version of the purported audio tapes between separatist rebels and...
How Do We Respond to This Really Horrible Day?
What a horrible day. Israel has begun a ground offensive in Gaza, the White House is on lockdown, and a plane has been shot down in Ukraine. Today’s news piles on an already shaking landscape of ISIS in Iraq, immigrant children suffering on the U.S. border, and still missing Nigerian girls. My Twitter feed has been raging with information...
