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More than a week after a missile destroyed a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 over eastern Ukraine, the crash site in territory controlled by pro-Russia separatists remains unsecured.

Armed Australian force sent to secure Flight 17 crash site in Ukraine

June 18, 2018 at 8:54 a.m.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's dispatch of 190 armed police to guard the Malaysia Airlines crash site in separatist-held eastern Ukraine has stirred controversy and concern for the safety of...

Pro-Russia gunmen blocking polls for 10% of Ukrainian voters

March 27, 2019 at 5:05 p.m.

Ukraine's election authorities said Saturday that they are unable to operate polling places for Sunday's presidential election in areas representing about 10% of the population and that separatist threats against...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died nine years ago at a Paris hospital after exhibiting symptoms doctors thought to be from influenza, was probably poisoned by the radioactive isotope polonium-210, Swiss forensic scientists have concluded in a report released Wednesday.

Yasser Arafat probably poisoned by polonium, Swiss review concludes

June 18, 2018 at 4:11 p.m.

Swiss forensics examiners found sufficient traces of the deadly radioactive isotope polonium-210 in the exhumed remains of Yasser Arafat to conclude with relative certainty that the late Palestinian leader died...

Strategies may change as students get older but results stick

December 23, 2018 at 3:27 p.m.

Studying sticks with you. It finds its way into your life when you're out of school in expected and unexpected ways. "Learning is a skill which involves all our senses,"...

Guantanamo detainee pleads not guilty

August 22, 2021 at 7:40 a.m.

The first terrorism suspect to be brought from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States for trial appeared Tuesday in federal court in New York where he pleaded not guilty...

‘Meltdown’ feared at polls

August 21, 2021 at 9:49 p.m.

Counting down to an Election Day expected to draw record-shattering turnout, voting-rights watchdogs are sounding the alarm that a repeat of the Florida fiasco of 2000 could occur in any...

Haiti seen as traffickers’ paradise

August 21, 2021 at 4:58 p.m.

Three men wearing wraparound sunglasses and gold chains leaned against their sport-utility vehicle at this remote border crossing with the Dominican Republic. As one of them muttered into a walkie-talkie,...

Illegal drugs not found in Smith death

August 21, 2021 at 6:27 p.m.

It will take three to five weeks to determine what killed Anna Nicole Smith, but no illegal drugs have been found and initial findings have ruled out physical trauma, authorities...

Japan gains support on whaling, sparking fears of new slaughter

August 21, 2021 at 10:19 a.m.

After a two-decade campaign, Japan may have mustered enough allies to win a majority on the International Whaling Commission, a victory anti-whaling activists fear will bring back the sea slaughter...

U.S. says 3 Gitmo detainees kill selves

August 21, 2021 at 9:04 a.m.

Three Middle Eastern detainees being held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, committed suicide Saturday morning, military officials said, becoming the first captives to take their own...

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