Tag: Ukraine

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

Representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation speak to a pro-Russia fighter at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, Friday, July 18, 2014. Representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and four Ukrainian experts had traveled into rebel-controlled areas to begin an investigation into the attack that killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Credible probe sought in downing of Malaysian jet

PETER LEONARDDMITRY LOVETSKY · July 19, 2014 3:56 am

President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Ukraine, Friday, July 18, 2014, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The president said one American was killed on the plane over Ukraine, and the airliner was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US building case tying separatists to plane crash

Julie Pace · July 18, 2014 11:17 pm

A closed desk of Malaysian airlines is seen at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Ukraine said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Why airlines didn’t avoid risky Ukraine airspace

DAVID KOENIGSCOTT MAYEROWITZ · July 18, 2014 9:55 pm

A flag flies half-staff near the traffic tower at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Friday, July 18, 2014. The attack on a Malaysian jetliner Thursday afternoon killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch, including vacationers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

What we know, and don’t, 1 day after Ukraine crash

JohnThor Dahlburg · July 18, 2014 8:53 pm

Weekly Examiner: Another tragic airline disaster

Lisa Ruhl · July 18, 2014 7:37 pm

FILE - In this July 17, 2014 file photo, people inspect the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine. The downing of the jet could prove to be a turning point in the country's conflict. But which way it turns depends mainly on who carried out the attack and how convincingly it can be proved to the world. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

AP Analysis: Downed jet could alter Ukraine crisis

Angela Charlton · July 18, 2014 7:19 pm