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    Gaza Fighting Continues Even As FAA Lifts Flight Ban To Tel Aviv
    Jul24

    Gaza Fighting Continues Even As FAA Lifts Flight Ban To Tel Aviv

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 9:21 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 23 (Reuters) – Gaza fighting raged on Wednesday, displacing thousands more Palestinians in the battered territory as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said efforts to secure a truce between Israel and Hamas had made some progress. U.S. aviation authorities lifted a ban on flights to Tel Aviv which had been in force for...

    FAA Lifts Its Ban on Flights to Israel
    Jul24

    FAA Lifts Its Ban on Flights to Israel

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 8:20 (EEST) Section: Time (USA)

    MoreMichael Bloomberg Blasts FAA for Halting Israel FlightsUnder pressure from Israeli and American officials, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a temporary ban on flights by American carriers to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport late on Thursday night. MoreWhy Obama Wants Israel to ‘Do More’ About Civilian...

    U.S.: Downed Ukraine Jets Part Of Russia Influenced Pattern
    Jul24

    U.S.: Downed Ukraine Jets Part Of Russia Influenced Pattern

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 8:20 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House cast the downing of two fighter jets in Ukraine on Wednesday as part of a pattern of Russian-backed separatists using Russian weapons to pose risks to aircrafts and further destabilize the conflict in the former Soviet republic. The Ukrainian jets were downed just 20 miles south of the wreckage from the...

    Dutch solemnly view return of jet victims
    Jul24

    Dutch solemnly view return of jet victims

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 6:59 (EEST) Section: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (USA)

    EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine finally returned Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...

    Tonight We Are All Dutch
    Jul24

    Tonight We Are All Dutch

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 6:59 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    The achievements of the Dutch people and the tragedies they have suffered have, at times, been disproportionate to the small population and the tiny size of this remarkable nation. Back in the 16th and 17th centuries, “tiny Holland” — the “Northern Low Countries” with less than 2 million people — experienced an...

    MH17’s ‘Black Boxes’ Could Reveal Crash Details
    Jul24

    MH17’s ‘Black Boxes’ Could Reveal Crash Details

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 6:59 (EEST) Section: Voice of America (USA)

    The government of Malaysia now has custody of the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was hit by a missile over Ukraine before crashing last week. As VOA’s Carolyn Presutti reports, the so-called black boxes may hold information about the final minutes of the flight. …read more Source: Voice...

    Pro-Russia Militant: We Shot Down The Malaysia Airliner
    Jul24

    Pro-Russia Militant: We Shot Down The Malaysia Airliner

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 6:20 (EEST) Section: Business Insider (USA)

    A Ukrainian militiaman who says he witnessed the downing of Malaysia Flight MH17 gave a vivid interview to Lorenzo Cremonesi of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “We shot down a Kiev plane, our superiors told us,” said the pro-Russian rebel, who lived worked locally as a miner before the uprising in eastern Ukraine. “We...

    Gaza Death Toll Climbs As Kerry Pushes For Truce
    Jul24

    Gaza Death Toll Climbs As Kerry Pushes For Truce

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 6:20 (EEST) Section: The Huffington Post (USA)

    * Israeli tank fire kills 16 Palestinians before dawn * Kerry reports progress in ceasefire talks; Israel is mum * U.S. extends ban on U.S. flights to Israel for second day By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Allyn Fisher-Ilan GAZA/JERUSALEM, July 24 …read more Source: The Huffington...

    MH17 Families Shouldn’t ‘Lust For Revenge,’ Father Of Lockerbie Bombing Victim Says
    Jul24

    MH17 Families Shouldn’t ‘Lust For Revenge,’ Father Of Lockerbie Bombing Victim Says

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 6:20 (EEST) Section: International Business Times (USA)

    The English father of a woman killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, 26 years ago reached out to the victims’ families of MH17, assuring them that their loved ones didn’t suffer when the Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine last week. …read more Source: International Business...

    EU Envoys To Discuss Tougher Russia Sanctions
    Jul24

    EU Envoys To Discuss Tougher Russia Sanctions

    Thursday, July 24 , 2014 - 4:31 (EEST) Section: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (USA)

    European Union ambassadors on July 24 are due to discuss widening sanctions on Russia after the downing of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, allegedly by Moscow-backed rebels. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...