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Malaysia Airlines Plane Crash: Ukraine Workers Find More Bodies Amid Debris
HRABOVE, Ukraine (AP) — The chaotic Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 recovery effort stumbled again Monday, with more bodies found at the sprawling crash site but a worrisome power outage in the refrigerated train holding over 200 of the dead. The shambolic attempts to investigate by the pro-Russia separatists who control the verdant farmland...
Putin Demands Access For International Experts At Malaysia Airlines Crash Site
MOSCOW, July 21 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the downing of a Malaysian airliner in east Ukraine must not be used for political ends and urged separatists to allow international experts access to the crash site. “Everything must be done to guarantee the security of international experts at the site of...
Maarten de Jonge, Dutch Cyclist, Was Supposed To Fly On Both Doomed Malaysia Airlines Flights
Maarten de Jonge is an incredibly lucky man. He managed to twice cheat death this year by simply changing his plane reservations. According to The Independent, the 29-year-old Dutch athlete who competes for Malaysia’s Terengganu Cycling Team was scheduled to fly on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot out of the sky on July 17 while...
U.S. Presses Case Against Russia On Downed Jet
By Anton Zverev and Matt Spetalnick HRABOVE, Ukraine/WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as international horror deepened over the fate of the victims’ remains. Kerry demanded that...
MH17 and the Long Term Costs of Russia’s Ukraine Incursion
Policymakers, especially policymakers who have never seen action, are often seduced by covert operations. They see them as the perfect policy instrument: cheap, deniable, effective. Yes, there can be tremendously effective covert or at least non-conventional operations and campaigns, but just as all intelligence operations must come to terms with...
Brzezinski: Europe Risks Becoming A ‘Satellite’ Of Russia If It Doesn’t Stand Up To Putin
Former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski came out swinging in an interview on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS show on Sunday. He challenged Europe’s leaders to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the wake of the crash of the Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, which US and Ukrainian intelligence believe was shot...
Lindsey Graham Calls John Kerry ‘Delusional,’ Obama ‘King Of Indecision’
Sen. Lindsey Graham expressed his qualms with the Obama administration’s approach to foreign policy during a “Meet the Press” interview on Sunday, calling Secretary of State John Kerry’s foreign policy analysis “delusional.” Kerry appeared on NBC Sunday morning to discuss the state of foreign affairs amid the...
Russian Media on Malaysian Flight MH17 Tragedy: Epic Fail
The Russian media has made one thing clear in the aftermath of the destruction of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17: it generates a view of the world corresponding to the political needs of the Kremlin. Yet even the Kremlin spin machine has been incapable of coming up with a plausible account of this tragedy that could deflect responsibility from...
AIDS Conference Honors Victims Of MH17
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An international AIDS conference opened in Australia on Sunday with a tribute to several delegates who were killed en route to the gathering when their plane was shot down over Ukraine. Officials at the opening ceremony for the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne held a moment of silence for the six...
Pro-Russian Rebel Commander Suggests Malaysia Plane Victims Long Dead
MOSCOW (AP) — A top pro-Russia rebel commander in eastern Ukraine has given a version of events surrounding the Malaysian jetliner crash — suggesting many of the victims may have died days before the plane took off. The pro-rebel website Russkaya Vesna on Friday quoted Igor Girkin as saying he was told by people at the crash site that...
