Author: Mike Corder
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MH17 inquiry: ‘Strong indications’ Putin OK’d missile supply
THE HAGUE, Netherlands • An international team of investigators said Wednesday it found “strong indications” that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the supply of heavy anti-aircraft weapons to Ukrainian separatists who shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 with a Russian missile. Members of the Joint Investigation Team said they had insufficient evidence to…
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MH17 inquiry: ‘Strong indications’ Putin OK’d missile supply
THE HAGUE, Netherlands • An international team of investigators said Wednesday it found “strong indications” that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the supply of heavy anti-aircraft weapons to Ukrainian separatists who shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 with a Russian missile. However, members of the Joint Investigation Team said they had insufficient evidence…
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London mourners brave 9-hour wait to say goodbye to queen
LONDON • Thousands of mourners waited for hours Thursday in a line that stretched for nearly 4 1/2 miles across London for the chance to spend a few minutes filing past Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin while she lies in state. King Charles III spent the day in private to reflect on his first week on…
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Queen Elizabeth II lies in state as crowds pay respects
LONDON • The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall. There, Britain’s longest-serving monarch will lie in state for the…
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European Union makes Ukraine a candidate for EU membership
BRUSSELS • The European Union agreed Thursday to put Ukraine on a path toward EU membership, acting with uncharacteristic speed and unity to pull the embattled country further from Russia’s influence and bind it more closely to the West. Meeting at a summit in Brussels, leaders of the EU’s 27 nations mustered the required unanimous…
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3 nations join international team probing Ukraine war crimes
THE HAGUE, Netherlands • Three more nations on Tuesday joined an international investigation team probing war crimes in Ukraine, and the International Criminal Court prosecutor said he plans to open an office in Kyiv, amid calls for those responsible for atrocities since Russia’s invasion to be brought to justice. Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia signed an…
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Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal
THE HAGUE, Netherlands • Ratko Mladic, the military chief known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for orchestrating genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan nation’s 1992-95 war, lost his final legal battle Tuesday when U.N. judges rejected his appeals and affirmed his life sentence. The ruling involving his 2017 convictions and sentence…
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EU commission greenlights Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine
AMSTERDAM • The European Union’s executive commission gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, providing the 27-nation bloc with a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging across the continent. The European Commission granted conditional marketing authorization for the vaccine. The decision came against a backdrop of…
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4 charged in downing of Malaysian airliner over Ukraine
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands • International prosecutors announced murder charges Wednesday against four men — three of them Russians with military or intelligence backgrounds — in the missile attack that blew a Malaysia Airlines jet out of the sky over Ukraine five years ago, killing all 298 people aboard. The case, built with the help of wiretaps,…
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Gunman kills 3 on Dutch tram, mayor says terror likely
UTRECHT, Netherlands • A gunman killed three people and wounded five on a tram Monday morning in what authorities said may have been a terror attack, and a suspect was seized after a manhunt that convulsed the Dutch city of Utrecht. Dutch Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhaus said the attacker — identified as Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis,…