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    Eurozone Growth Rebounds in July
    Jul24

    Eurozone Growth Rebounds in July

    A private-sector survey showed that business activity rose, but that worries about the Ukraine crisis have begun to cloud the outlook. …read more Source: The New York...

    Long odds for justice in Malaysia jet disaster
    Jul24

    Long odds for justice in Malaysia jet disaster

    Ukrainian honor guards lift up a coffin, holding the body of one of the Malaysian Airlines plane passengers, to load it onto a Dutch cargo plane in Kharkiv airport, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 23… …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    What This Photograph Might Tell Investigators About What Really Happened to MH17
    Jul24

    What This Photograph Might Tell Investigators About What Really Happened to MH17

    Much has been made of the possibility that the loss of Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was the work of an anti-aircraft missile. Even without confirmation or corroboration, investigators will have a wealth of evidence from the crash site and images from the scene to piece together the aeroplane’s last moments. For the moment, there must remain...

    German Officials Say The EU Will Hit Putin With Biting Sanctions
    Jul24

    German Officials Say The EU Will Hit Putin With Biting Sanctions

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The German government believes the European Union could move to sanctions on sectors of the Russian economy by the end of July unless Russia acts quickly to defuse the crisis in eastern Ukraine, an EU source said on Thursday. German officials in Brussels have also briefed that Berlin favors a time limit on how long new...

    Plane with more crash victims leaves Ukraine
    Jul24

    Plane with more crash victims leaves Ukraine

    In this framegrab made from a video provided by press service of the rebel Donetsk People’s Republic and icorpus.ru, pro-Russians collect parts of the burning debris of a Ukrainian military fi… …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    Anthony Maslin And Marite Norris, Parents Of 3 Kids Killed On Flight MH17, Speak Out
    Jul24

    Anthony Maslin And Marite Norris, Parents Of 3 Kids Killed On Flight MH17, Speak Out

    Anthony Maslin and Marite Norris, who lost their three children and Norris’ father when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, have released a statement describing their anguish. The couple had remained in Amsterdam while Nick Norris, 68, brought the kids — Otis, 8, Evie, 10 and Mo, 12 — home...

    40 Bodies From MH17 Solemnly Returned to Dutch Soil
    Jul24

    40 Bodies From MH17 Solemnly Returned to Dutch Soil

    (EINDHOVEN, Netherlands) — Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine returned at last Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind. MoreEU Preparing Further Sanctions Against Russia After MH17 CrashMalaysia Airlines Ukraine Crash:...

    Amsterdam Remembers MH17 Victims In Silent March
    Jul24

    Amsterdam Remembers MH17 Victims In Silent March

    Dressed in white, Amsterdam residents walked silently through the city’s streets on July 23 in memory of the victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, 193 of whom were Dutch. Flags on government and private buildings flew at half mast as mourners released hundreds of white balloons into the sky from the capital’s Dam Square....

    Disenchanted With Putin, Some Russians Are Voting With Their Feet
    Jul24

    Disenchanted With Putin, Some Russians Are Voting With Their Feet

    By Alissa de Carbonnel MOSCOW (Reuters) – Most of Vladimir Paley’s clients want him to dig up their family history with one goal in mind: making a case to obtain foreign citizenship and leave Russia. Six months ago the soft-spoken genealogist had few such requests, but this month he hired an assistant to help him with the flow of...

    Ukraine Separatists Had Surface-to-Air Missiles, Rebel Leader Admits
    Jul24

    Ukraine Separatists Had Surface-to-Air Missiles, Rebel Leader Admits

    A separatist commander in Ukraine admitted Wednesday that pro-Russian fighters possessed the surface-to-air BUK missiles that are believed to have brought down the Malaysia Airlines commercial flight in the east of the country last week. Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok Battalion, told Reuters that separatist groups had possession...