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    Dutch PM Urges Russia’s Putin to Help Plane Disaster Probe
    Jul19

    Dutch PM Urges Russia’s Putin to Help Plane Disaster Probe

    Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he had a “very intense” phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday, in which he urged the Russian leader to use his influence over Ukraine’s separatists to help in the investigation of the Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine. Rutte said he told Putin that he must...

    Blame Game Over Malaysia Plane Crash
    Jul19

    Blame Game Over Malaysia Plane Crash

    Emergency crews continue with their grisly task, as OSCE investigators help comb through the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight 17. They say that overall, access is improving at this rebel-held site in eastern Ukraine. But as the investigation takes shape, fingers are being pointed in all directions. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says...

    DNA being collected to ID Ukraine crash victims
    Jul19

    DNA being collected to ID Ukraine crash victims

    A woman carries flowers on her way to attend a gathering at soccer club Altius in Hilversum, Netherlands, Saturday, July 19, 2014. A family, father, mother, daughter and son, from which the fa… …read more Source: The Bismarck...

    Malaysia Airlines staff try to cope with disasters
    Jul19

    Malaysia Airlines staff try to cope with disasters

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Coping with two disasters within a few months has left some Malaysia Airlines employees so shaken that they’ve been unable to function properly at work, a union official said Saturday.The airline suffered its second disaster in less than five months Thursday when Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was...

    Pro-Russia Rebels Hamper Access to Malaysian Plane Crash Site
    Jul19

    Pro-Russia Rebels Hamper Access to Malaysian Plane Crash Site

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    Rebels hamper access to plane crash site
    Jul19

    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...

    Malaysia Airlines Crash Photos: Pictures of MH17 Victims’ Belongings That Survived the Crash
    Jul19

    Malaysia Airlines Crash Photos: Pictures of MH17 Victims’ Belongings That Survived the Crash

    Pictures of the MH17 victims’ belongings have surfaced. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was flying over Ukraine from Amsterdam when it was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. All 298 passengers and crew perished in the flight, which was headed for Kuala Lumpur. Some of pictures of the passenger belongings that have survived the crash have...

    Is this how to secure the scene?
    Jul19

    Is this how to secure the scene?

    Bodies, backpacks, passports and other piles of debris lay splayed across a miles-long area in the remote area in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 came down. The crash site is massive — an international observer called it “one of the biggest — or the biggest — crime scenes in the world right now.”...

    Putin under scrutiny after downing of Malaysia Airlines jet
    Jul19

    Putin under scrutiny after downing of Malaysia Airlines jet

    The downing of a passenger jet over separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine puts Russian President Vladimir Putin in a tight spot. …read more Source: Los Angeles...

    Multiple bus crash in Germany kills 10, injures 69
    Jul19

    Multiple bus crash in Germany kills 10, injures 69

    BERLIN — A crash involving several buses on a highway in eastern Germany killed 10 people and injured 69, police said Saturday.The crash near Dresden occurred shortly before 2 a.m. when a Polish bus hit the rear of a Ukrainian bus and then broke through the median barrier, slamming into a Polish minibus traveling in the opposite direction,...