Tag: Malaysia Airlines Disaster

FILE - In this July 23, 2014 file photo, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak tables an emergency motion to condemn the suspected shooting of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine, at the Parliament house in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia said Sunday, July 27, 2014 that it would send dozens of police to the Malaysian airliner's crash site in eastern Ukraine after pro-Russia separatists agreed to allow international police personnel to provide protection for investigators. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin, File)

Malaysia: Rebels to let police secure MH17 site

Washington Examiner · July 27, 2014 12:26 pm

People ride a scooter past a destroyed pro-Russian fighters' APC near the city of Lisichansk, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine Saturday, July 26, 2014. Volunteers from the Donbas Battalion, a volunteer militia for a united Ukraine, told The Associated Press their units, along with the Ukrainian army, regained control of Lisichansk on Friday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine launches offensive to retake Donetsk

AYSE WIETINGDAVID McHUGH · July 27, 2014 2:48 am

Dutch and Australian investigators examine pieces of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the village of Rassipne, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Friday, July 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

US: Russia is firing across border into Ukraine

David McHugh · July 25, 2014 11:07 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, July 17, 2014 mobile phone photo provided by Andrei Kashtanov, smoke rises from the site where a Malaysia Airlines commercial plane went down in eastern Ukraine. All 298 people aboard the Boeing 777 traveling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur were killed. (AP Photo/Andrei Kashtanov)

What happened? The day Flight 17 was downed

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · July 25, 2014 7:53 pm

Obama’s UN envoy takes lead role in plane response

Julie Pace · July 25, 2014 6:47 pm

Russian execs fear lasting damage from plane crash

LAURA MILLSNATALIYA VASILYEVA · July 25, 2014 5:02 pm

File - This July 17, 2014, file photo show people walking amongst the debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine. Ukraine said the passenger plane was shot down as it flew over the country, killing all 298 people on board. Aviation has suffered one of its worst weeks in memory, a cluster of disasters spanning three continents. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Dutch Safety Board: 1st ‘factual findings’ soon

Washington Examiner · July 25, 2014 3:02 pm

President Obama kicked off his week by traveling to the West Coast. He visited California for a variety of fundraising events including a House Majority PAC fundraiser in San Francisco and a Democratic National Committee fundraising event in Los Angeles.

VIDEO — Weekly Examiner: John Boehner’s lawsuit takes a big step

Lisa Ruhl · July 25, 2014 2:14 pm

Malaysian investigators along with members of the OSCE mission in Ukraine, examine a piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in the village of Petropavlivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Why Malaysian Airlines crash was not a game-changer, after all

Susan Crabtree · July 25, 2014 11:30 am

Planes with Ukraine bodies arrive in Netherlands

dmytro-vlasov · July 25, 2014 2:07 am

A forensic team recovers human remains among the wreckage of crashed TransAsia Airways flight GE222 on the outlying island of Penghu, Taiwan, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Stormy weather on the trailing edge of Typhoon Matmo was the likely cause of the plane crash that killed more than 40 people, the airline said Thursday. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Very bad week: Airline disasters come in a cluster

Washington Examiner · July 25, 2014 1:51 am

In 2012, President Obama ribbed Mitt Romney for having a "foreign policy of the 1980s." If Time magazine's new cover is any indication, Romney is having the last laugh for that line.

Beltway Confidential

Time magazine cover redeems Romney’s ‘Cold War’ foreign policy

Blake Seitz · July 24, 2014 9:07 pm