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New video shows the moment Russian-backed rebels realized they shot down a civilian airliner in eastern Ukraine
Australia says MH17 footage of rebels rummaging through victims’ bags shows attack was not an accident and urges Russia to cooperate with investigations Footage from the MH17 disaster shows Russian-backed rebels handling bodies and rummaging through the bags of dead passengers as they express shock that the aircraft they brought down was a...
‘Moral duty’ to punish ‘murderers’ who downed MH17: Ukraine leader
Kiev (AFP) – President Petro Poroshenko on Friday called it a “moral duty” to punish those responsible for downing the MH17 flight over Ukraine one year ago, killing all 298 people on board.”Our moral duty to honour the memory of the fallen ones is to ensure a fair punishment for those guilty in downing the aircraft. This...
Microsoft has crushed the economic hopes of Finland’s Salo as it closes its Nokia plant and jeopardises 1,100 jobs
HELSINKI (Reuters) – When U.S. software giant Microsoft bought Nokia’s struggling mobile phone business last year, the inhabitants of Salo – a town of 54,000 in southern Finland – thought the move would revive the local economy. But their hopes were crushed last week when Microsoft announced it would close Nokia’s former product...
Britain wants an international tribunal called over the downing of Malaysia Airlines MH17
LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Friday backed calls for an international tribunal to prosecute those suspected of shooting a Malaysian airline out of the sky over rebel-held eastern Ukraine a year ago. His call comes as commemorations are held in the Netherlands and Ukraine on Friday to mark the anniversary of...
Britain calls for UN tribunal to prosecute MH17 culprits
London (AFP) – British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond called Friday for a UN-backed international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine one year ago.”Justice must be delivered for the 298 innocent people who lost their lives,” said Hammond, whose country is one...
Families of MH17 victims sue ex-rebel leader for $900 mn
Moscow (AFP) – Relatives of MH17 crash victims have filed a nearly $900 million suit against a former leader of Ukrainian insurgents over the shooting down of the passenger jet in July last year.A writ filed in Chicago on Wednesday claimed that Igor Strelkov, a Russian citizen, was acting with the “actual or apparent” authority...
Russia is going to send fuel to Syria from Crimea
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia plans to supply Syria with 200,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) per year via the Crimean port of Kerch, two trading sources told Reuters. The plans are a further sign of cooperation between the two countries despite hopes in the West that Russia might stop shielding President Bashar al-Assad from...
Locals describe what it was like when MH17 was shot out of the sky in eastern Ukraine
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — The field outside Hrabove, littered one year ago with bodies and smelling of burnt flesh and plastic, now smells of wild flowers. But the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 still haunts residents, who remember the bodies that fell from the sky above their sleepy village in eastern Ukraine. “People came out of...
There are a lot of hidden costs to the Iran nuclear deal
What did the Iran deal cost the U.S.? Keeping adversaries like China and Russia at the negotiating table was likely expensive – even though both have much to gain from the relaxation of international sanctions on Iran. Both look forward to ramped-up arms sales and increased trade with Iran, but even so, neither China nor Russia hands out...
Iran’s strategic mastermind got a huge boost from the nuclear deal
The historic nuclear accord between a US-led group of countries and Iran was good news for a man who some consider to be the Middle East’s most effective covert operative. As a result of the deal, Qasem Suleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qods Force and the general responsible for overseeing Iran’s network of...
