Tag: Ukraine

A piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 lies in the grass near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US working on case against Russia on downed plane

Matthew Lee · July 21, 2014 7:11 am

A pro-Russian fighter guards the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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US outlines case against Russia on downed plane

Matthew Lee · July 21, 2014 12:43 am

People walk next to a refrigerated train loaded with the bodies of victims, in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Bodies from downed jet piled in boxcars in Ukraine

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 20, 2014 11:36 pm

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the situation in Ukraine Friday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama dragged down by chaos at home and abroad, not by the economy

Michael Barone · July 20, 2014 9:00 pm

People sign a condolence register at St. Vitus church in Hilversum, Netherlands, Sunday, July 20, 2014. An attack on a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch. Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Distraught Dutch mother: ‘Send my children home’

Mike Corder · July 20, 2014 8:26 pm

A man looks for the remains of victims in the debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Cameron demands Russia cease support for rebels

Danica Kirka · July 20, 2014 5:06 pm

Pro-Russian fighters at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

John Kerry: Evidence suggests Russia gave rebels weapon used to shoot down Malaysia airliner

Sean Lengell · July 20, 2014 3:53 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry said the rebels allowed outside investigators only 75 minutes to inspect the crash site on Friday, and three hours on Saturday. (AP Photo)

John Kerry says ‘drunken’ rebels compromising Malaysia Airlines crash site in Ukraine

Sean Lengell · July 20, 2014 2:25 pm

Emergency workers carry the body of a victim at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, July 19, 2014. World leaders demanded Friday that pro-Russia rebels who control the eastern Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 give immediate, unfettered access to independent investigators to determine who shot down the plane. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Monitors try to secure Ukraine plane crash site

PETER LEONARDEVGENIY MALOLETKA · July 20, 2014 3:06 am

People enter the door 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 father and the son were members of the club, were among those killed when a Malaysian jetliner was shot down over Ukraine Thursday. All passengers, 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch were killed. Across the Netherlands, at sports clubs, schools and churches, friends met Saturday to console each another and attempt to come to terms with their loss. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

DNA being collected to ID Ukraine crash victims

Mike Corder · July 19, 2014 6:05 pm

Ukraine crisis shows divisions in old Soviet bloc

Vanessa Gera · July 19, 2014 10:45 am

In this June 2009 photo provided by AMC Amsterdam on Friday, July 18, 2014, former president of the International AIDS Society Joep Lange is seen. A large number of world-renowned AIDS researchers and activists heading to an international AIDS conference in Australia were on board a Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over Ukraine, officials said Friday, as news of their deaths sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community. Among them was Joep Lange, a well-known researcher from the Netherlands (AP Photo/Peter Lowie/AMC)

AIDS conference attendees on downed Malaysian jet

Kristen Gelineau · July 19, 2014 3:59 am