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    Ukraine Releases Audio It Claims Proves Rebels’ Ties To Malaysia Airlines Crash
    Jul18

    Ukraine Releases Audio It Claims Proves Rebels’ Ties To Malaysia Airlines Crash

    Ukraine’s intelligence agency claimed on Thursday it had intercepted phone calls that connected separatists in the country’s east to the crash of a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane. Ukraine’s state security agency, also known as S.B.U., released an edited version of the purported audio tapes between separatist rebels and...

    How Do We Respond to This Really Horrible Day?
    Jul18

    How Do We Respond to This Really Horrible Day?

    What a horrible day. Israel has begun a ground offensive in Gaza, the White House is on lockdown, and a plane has been shot down in Ukraine. Today’s news piles on an already shaking landscape of ISIS in Iraq, immigrant children suffering on the U.S. border, and still missing Nigerian girls. My Twitter feed has been raging with information...

    AP Interview: Ukraine blames Russia for plane crash, says separatists reacted like ‘animals’
    Jul18

    AP Interview: Ukraine blames Russia for plane crash, says separatists reacted like ‘animals’

    Ukraine’s U.N. …read more Source: FOX...

    Scenes From the Malaysia Jet Crash Site
    Jul18

    Scenes From the Malaysia Jet Crash Site

    A Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 295 passengers and crew crashed in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, and American officials said it was most likely shot down by an antiaircraft missile. …read more Source: The New York...

    Intercepted Audio of Ukraine Separatists
    Jul18

    Intercepted Audio of Ukraine Separatists

    Ukraine released what it said is audio from intercepted phone calls between separatist rebels and Russian officers. In one call, a rebel is heard saying, “We have just shot down a plane.” …read more Source: The New York...

    Israel Launches a Ground Invasion of Gaza—and No One Knows How It Will End
    Jul18

    Israel Launches a Ground Invasion of Gaza—and No One Knows How It Will End

    MoreMarkets React to Malaysian Jet Crash and Gaza InvasionIsrael Begins Gaza Ground OffensiveWhy the Israel-Gaza Cease-Fire FailedIsraeli tanks rolled into the Gaza Strip Thursday, marking the start of a ground offensive in the Palestinian territory. After ten days of aerial bombardment and frequent threats of ground invasion, troops moved on the...

    Incredible Map Shows Airplanes Getting The Heck Out Of Ukranian Airspace
    Jul18

    Incredible Map Shows Airplanes Getting The Heck Out Of Ukranian Airspace

    On a normal travel day, the airspace over Ukraine is some of the most congested in the world. It serves as a major cross roads for flights connecting major hubs in Europe with megacities in Asia. However, after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was reportedly shot down earlier today, most of the world’s major airlines have ordered their planes...

    Local Ukraine activist not surprised by Malaysia jet tragedy
    Jul18

    Local Ukraine activist not surprised by Malaysia jet tragedy

    AUSTIN (KXAN) – As investigators try to piece together what happened, people here in Austin are still trying to make sense of the tragedy. A local Ukranian activist has been closely following the crisis between Ukraine and Russia, and says she’s not surprised something like this happened. Chris Wynnyk Wilson has had many sleepless...

    Putin: Responsibility for plane crash is Ukraine’s
    Jul18

    Putin: Responsibility for plane crash is Ukraine’s

    Russian President Vladmir Putin says Ukraine bears responsibility for the crash of a Malaysian airliner. …read more Source: CNY...

    MSNBC Prank Call Malaysia Airlines: Howard Stern Referenced in Crude Flight MH17 ‘Analysis’ (+Video)
    Jul18

    MSNBC Prank Call Malaysia Airlines: Howard Stern Referenced in Crude Flight MH17 ‘Analysis’ (+Video)

    MSNBC host Krystal Ball was on the receiving end of a bad prank call during a television coverage of the downed Malaysia Airlines plane on Thursday. During MSNBC’s The Cycle spot on the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash, a prank caller going by the name of “Staff Sgt. Michael Boyd.” gave his opinion of what he supposedly...