Tag: Malaysia

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 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

A woman walks at the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne, eastern Ukraine Friday, July 18, 2014. Rescue workers, policemen and even off-duty coal miners were combing a sprawling area in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border where the Malaysian plane ended up in burning pieces Thursday, killing all 298 aboard. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Who is to blame? Crash investigators face struggle

JILL LAWLESSLAURA MILLS · July 18, 2014 4:59 pm

WHO says spokesman aboard crashed jetliner

Washington Examiner · July 18, 2014 2:04 pm

FILE - In this July 11, 2014 file photo, Cuba's Fidel Castro speaks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Havana, Cuba. In a statement published Friday, July 18, 2014 by state media, Castro is blaming the Ukrainian government in Kiev for the downing of a Malaysian Airlines passenger plane. Castro's comments came one week after he welcomed Vladimir Putin during the Russian leader's tour of Latin America. (AP Photo/Alex Castro, File)

Fidel Castro: Ukraine to blame for downed airliner

Washington Examiner · July 18, 2014 1:56 pm

In this March 25, 2014 photo, Kaylene Mann, right, and Jayden Burrows hold hands as they read a statement to the media in Brisbane, Australia, about the loss of Rod Burrows, who is Kaylene's brother and Jayden's father. Rod Burrows was among six Australians killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed into the Southern Indian ocean. On Friday, July 18, 2014, Mann found out that her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed along with 297 others on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which U.S. intelligence authorities believe was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. (AP Photo/AAP, Dan Peled) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT, SOUTH PACIFIC OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE

Woman loses relatives in 2 Malaysia air disasters

Kristen Gelineau · July 18, 2014 12:39 pm

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, was shot down near the Ukraine Russia border, according to Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister. (AP Photo/JoePriesAviation.net)

Republicans blast Obama for fundraising after jetliner crash in Ukraine

Susan Crabtree · July 18, 2014 11:54 am

An electronic board displaying "Pray for MH17" at the departure hall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Friday, July 18, 2014. Malaysia Airlines has increased the death toll from Flight 17 that was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine on Thursday to 298 from 295, saying that three infants had not been included in the original list. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

Double disasters taint Malaysia Airlines

STEPHEN WRIGHTKELVIN CHAN · July 18, 2014 9:54 am

Morning Examiner with Steve Doty for July 18

Steve Doty · July 18, 2014 6:57 am

People inspect the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine, 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/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine: Pro-Russia rebels downed Malaysian plane

Peter Leonard · July 18, 2014 4:43 am