Section: Boston Herald (USA)
Distraught Dutch mother: 'Send my children home'
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A distraught, grieving mother summed up a swelling mood of despair and anguish in the Netherlands on Sunday at faltering efforts to repatriate the bodies of loved ones killed in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, appealing directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to return the bodies of her son and his...
Rebels take full control of plane crash bodies
TOREZ, Ukraine — Rebels in eastern Ukraine took full control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and European leaders issued a strong call for Russian President Vladimir Putin to make sure international investigators had full access to the crash site. …read more Source: Boston...
Cameron demands Russia cease support for rebels
LONDON — British Prime Minister David Cameron is demanding that Russia end its support for the rebels in Ukraine, arguing that Russia’s policies destabilized the country and created the conditions that appear to have led to the downing of Malaysian Airways flight MH17.In an unusual front-page op-ed in the Sunday Times, Cameron says...
Plane crash bodies put on train for rebel city
HRABOVE, Ukraine — Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then had them loaded onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said Sunday.The surprising, rapid-fire developments Sunday morning came after a wave of...
Prayers across Netherlands for Ukraine crash dead
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels’ hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.The chairman of the Dutch Bishops Conference, Cardinal...
Ukraine: We have proof
Ukrainian officials yesterday claimed to have proof that Russia armed rebels with the surface-to-air missile that blew a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet out of the sky, killing all 298 people on board, while accusations of a cover-up continued to hamper the international investigation of the debris-strewn crash site. …read more Source:...
Experts: Whoever brought down Malaysian jet had extensive training
WASHINGTON—Whoever fired the surface-to-air missile that brought down a passenger jet over eastern Ukraine would have needed extensive training to execute the mission, according to military experts.Taking down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, traveling about 600 mph at an altitude of 33,000 feet, required vastly more expertise than, say, firing...
DNA being collected to ID Ukraine crash victims
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Forensic teams fanned out across the Netherlands on Saturday to collect material that will help positively identify the remains of victims killed in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine. Families and friends of the dead huddled to console one another at churches, schools and sports clubs across...
Monitors try to secure Ukraine plane crash site
HRABOVE, Ukraine — International monitors moved gingerly Saturday through fields reeking of the decomposing corpses of the victims of a Malaysian airliner shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine, trying to secure the sprawling site in hopes that a credible investigation of the disaster can be conducted.The crash that killed all 298 people...
Rebels hamper access to plane crash site
HRABOVE, Ukraine — Armed separatists hampered access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site Saturday, limiting the movements of international monitors and raising concerns that evidence showing who brought the plane down and killed the 298 people onboard would be lost, tampered with or destroyed. …read more Source: Boston...
