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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?
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...
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Shot Down Over Ukraine
A passenger plane traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 aboard. Body parts were scattered for miles around the crash site, near towns held by Russian-backed separatists. An emergency services rescue worker said that at least 100 bodies had been found at the scene. Ukrainian officials...
Putin Blames Malaysia Plane Crash On Ukraine’s Renewal Of Military Campaign
MOSCOW, July 18 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said Ukraine bore responsibility for the downing of a passenger plane in the country’s east, saying it would not have happened if Kiev had not resumed a military campaign against separatists. “This tragedy would not have happened, if there had been peace on...
Joe Biden: Malaysia Plane ‘Apparently Shot Down’ Over Ukraine, ‘Not An Accident’
DETROIT, Mich. — Vice President Joe Biden said the United States is working to confirm reports that Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was “apparently shot down” over eastern Ukraine on Thursday. “A Malaysian aircraft traveling from Western Europe to Kuala Lumpur … was apparently shot down,” Biden said, telling the...
U.S. Believes Malaysia Airlines Plane Hit By Surface-To-Air Missile, Official Reports
WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) – A U.S. official said the United States believes a surface-to-air missile brought down the Malaysian airliner that crashed on Thursday in eastern Ukraine, killing all 295 people aboard. The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the origin of the missile was unclear. The official declined...
Britain Asks For Emergency UN meeting On Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain has asked for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Ukraine.Britain’s U.N. Mission said Thursday the time of the meeting has not been set.The request follows Wednesday’s downing of a Ukrainian air force fighter and Thursday’s downing of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane...
Flight Radar Shows Planes Avoiding Ukraine In Aftermath Of Malaysia Airlines Crash
In the aftermath of an apparent attack on a Malaysia Airlines commercial jet flying over Ukraine, international flights are taking detours from their usual routes to avoid the war-torn country. The Twitter account PlaneTalking shared the image below, which shows the dramatic re-routing in effect. A quick look on @flightradar24 and you can see the...
For Malaysia Airlines, Disaster Strikes Twice
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Two Boeing 777s. Two incredibly rare aviation disasters. And one airline. In what appears to be a mind-boggling coincidence, Malaysia is reeling from the second tragedy to hit its national airline in less than five months. On March 8, a Malaysia Airlines jetliner vanished about an hour after taking off from Kuala...
Flight MH17 Crash Photos Show Absolute Destruction (GRAPHIC)
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 295 passengers crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday while traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. A Ukrainian official said the plane was shot down, the Associated Press reports. Malaysia Airlines said the plane’s last position was over Ukrainian airspace. A group that’s part of the Ukranian...
