BANGKOK—The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok says the U.S. military has begun conducting maritime surveillance flights off the west coast of Malaysia, supporting efforts to search for thousands of migrants believed stranded at sea on rickety wooden boats. “In consultation with governments in the region, the U.S. on May 24 began conducting maritime surveillance flights off […]
WHITE HOUSE —U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on Russia to allow international investigators immediate, full, and unimpeded access to the site in Ukraine where a Malaysian passenger jet was shot down last week. Obama said Monday the pro-Russian separatists who control the part of eastern Ukraine where the plane went down are preventing international investigators […]
Speaking from the White House on Friday, President Obama said that evidence points to a surface to air missile being fired at, and bringing down Malaysian Airllines Flight MH17 as it was transiting the rebel-held area in eastern Ukraine bound for Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam on Thursday. The airliner was at its cruising altitude of 33,000 […]