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Train goes to Kharkiv with crash victims remains

Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 11:45 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

A train carrying the remains of people killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday on their way to the Netherlands, a journey which has been...

Israeli aircraft hit more than 70 targets in Gaza

Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 09:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Israeli airstrikes pummeled a wide range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state began an intensive effort to end more than two weeks of fighting that...

Rebels release train with bodies from downed jet

Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 06:20 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Bowing to international pressure, pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it plunged into...

Truce elusive as Hamas, Israel stick to positions

Monday, 21 July 2014, 20:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

The top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip signaled Monday that the Islamic militant group will not agree to an unconditional cease-fire with Israel, while Israel's defense minister pledged to keep...

Dutch tell rebels: Train full of bodies must leave

Monday, 21 July 2014, 15:01 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Dutch forensic investigators told the armed separatists guarding train cars full of bodies from the downed Malaysia Airlines jet that the train must be allowed to leave within hours.   The...

Ukraine workers find more bodies at crash site

Monday, 21 July 2014, 11:46 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Rescuers retrieved more bodies Monday in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed, killing all 298 people aboard.   The chaotic rescue effort, which...

Clashes between rival militias in Libya kill 47

Monday, 21 July 2014, 10:15 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Libya's Health Ministry says clashes between rival militias fighting for control of the international airport in the capital, Tripoli, have killed 47 people over the past 24 hours.   The...

Bodies from downed jet piled in boxcars in Ukraine

Monday, 21 July 2014, 07:04 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from the downed Malaysian jetliner into four refrigerated boxcars Sunday in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777,...

Rebels take full control of plane crash bodies

Sunday, 20 July 2014, 18:17 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

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...

Thousands flee major battle with Israel in Gaza

Sunday, 20 July 2014, 18:12 Last update: about 12 years ago Malta Independent

Escalating their ground offensive, Israeli troops backed by tanks and warplanes battled Hamas militants in a crowded neighborhood of Gaza City early Sunday. The fighting, including heavy Israeli tank...

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