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    Buk Missile That Shot Down Flight MH17 Hidden In Russia After Plane Crash, Rebel Commander Admits
    Jul24

    Buk Missile That Shot Down Flight MH17 Hidden In Russia After Plane Crash, Rebel Commander Admits

    One of the most powerful Ukrainian rebel leaders has confirmed for the first time that pro-Russian separatists were in possession of the missile system that US intelligence analysts claim is responsible for shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 last Thursday. …read more Source: International Business...

    Bleak Homecoming: Ukraine Crash Bodies Land in Netherlands
    Jul24

    Bleak Homecoming: Ukraine Crash Bodies Land in Netherlands

    The bodies of the first victims from the Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine last week arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday. …read more Source:...

    Malaysian Jet Shootdown Joins Long List of Civilian-Military Air Disasters
    Jul24

    Malaysian Jet Shootdown Joins Long List of Civilian-Military Air Disasters

    The unfolding story of the Malaysian passenger jet shot down last week by an anti-aircraft missile over Ukraine joins a substantial list of similar military-civilian air disasters that have killed hundreds of non-combatants through decades of aviation history. In the early 1980s, the Soviet Union shot down a Korean Air Lines jet, killing 269...

    40 bodies from jet solemnly returned to Dutch soil
    Jul24

    40 bodies from jet 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. …read more Source: Boston...

    Video: Fist fight breaks out in Ukraine parliament
    Jul24

    Video: Fist fight breaks out in Ukraine parliament

    Lawmakers attacked one another following a decree that would enlist citizens as soldiers. …read more Source: USA...

    Football team in Ukraine war zone changes homes
    Jul24

    Football team in Ukraine war zone changes homes

    After Brazilian midfielder Douglas Costa said he was “afraid” to return to Shakhtar Donetsk, the Ukrainian club located in a war zone announced that it would play its home games elsewhere. …read more Source:...

    Associated Press Bungles Malaysia Airlines Crash Alert, Sends Newsrooms Into Panic
    Jul24

    Associated Press Bungles Malaysia Airlines Crash Alert, Sends Newsrooms Into Panic

    For a brief moment on Wednesday morning, Twitter users nearly had a collective blip of a heart attack when the AP tweeted that one of the Dutch planes carrying bodies from the downed Malaysia Airlines flight “crash lands in Eindhoven.” The apparent news from one of the most trusted news sources in the world, that one of the planes...

    MH17 Victims’ Phones Answered by ‘Eastern European Accents’ Amid Looting Reports, Dutch Families Say
    Jul24

    MH17 Victims’ Phones Answered by ‘Eastern European Accents’ Amid Looting Reports, Dutch Families Say

    Grief-stricken relatives of the victims killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot out of the sky over Ukraine with a missile have reported calling their family members’ phones to find them not only working, but answered by strangers. …read more Source: International Business...

    MH17’s Black Box Of Little Use In Event Of ‘Instant Decompression’ Caused By Buk Missile Strike
    Jul24

    MH17’s Black Box Of Little Use In Event Of ‘Instant Decompression’ Caused By Buk Missile Strike

    After a brief time under rebel control, rumors of a trip to Moscow and a long flight from Ukraine, the black boxes that could provide essential insight into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 have arrived in the United Kingdom. Investigators from the U.K.’s Air Accident Investigation Branch will examine the boxes’ contents,...

    Malaysia jet victims’ bodies arrive in Netherlands
    Jul24

    Malaysia jet victims’ bodies arrive in Netherlands

    EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (AP) — 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…. …read more Source: Associated...