Section: US & Canada
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...
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...
Hillary Clinton on Malaysia Airlines : ‘Should be outrage in European capitals’ if Russia shot down plane over Ukraine
If Russian separatists shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in Ukraine, it’s up to European countries to get tough on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton said hours after the tragedy. …read more Source: New York Daily...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Israel Launches a Ground Invasion of Gaza—and No One Knows How It Will End
MoreMarkets React to Malaysian Jet Crash and Gaza InvasionIsrael Begins Gaza Ground OffensiveWhy the Israel-Gaza Cease-Fire FailedIsraeli tanks rolled into the Gaza Strip Thursday, marking the start of a ground offensive in the Palestinian territory. After ten days of aerial bombardment and frequent threats of ground invasion, troops moved on the...
AP Interview: Ukraine blames Russia for plane crash, says separatists reacted like ‘animals’
Ukraine’s U.N. …read more Source: FOX...
