Russia, Egypt dismiss suggestions a bomb caused crash
LONDON (AP) -- Five days after a Russian jetliner broke apart high above the Sinai, Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed Western suggestions that a terrorist bomb may have caused the crash that...
View ArticleThe Latest: Investigator: Noise heard in cockpit recording
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) -- The latest on the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt that killed all 224 people onboard. (All times local.) 6:10 p.m. The head of the Egyptian committee investigating the...
View ArticleRussia Hardens Position Ahead of Syria Peace Talks
Daniel Schearf MOSCOW— Russia appeared to be hardening its position on Syria as it backed government forces making gains against rebels before hoped-for peace talks Friday in Geneva. The Syrian...
View ArticleRussian plane broke up high in air, official says
CAIRO – The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula over the weekend, killing all 224 people aboard, broke up high in the air, an official said Sunday, bolstering theories that the craft...
View ArticleRussian plane broke apart high above the Sinai Peninsula, official says
The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula over the weekend, killing all 224 people aboard, broke up high in the air, an official said Sunday, bolstering theories that the craft had a...
View ArticleNoise in last second of Russian plane’s cockpit recording
CAIRO – A noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording from the Russian plane that crashed last week in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the head of the joint investigation team said...
View ArticleInvestigator: Noise heard in last second of downed Russian plane's cockpit...
CAIRO -- A noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording from the Russian plane that crashed last week in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the head of the joint investigation team said...
View ArticleUkraine Mounts New Attacks on Rebels
VOA News Ukraine launched new military operations Tuesday against pro-Russian separatists in the east, hours after President Petro Poroshenko announced he would not renew a cease-fire but would go on...
View ArticleRussia’s Navy Deployed to Syria in Show of Force
Russia’s largest naval deployment in years raised eyebrows as the flotilla sailed past Norway through the English Channel on the way to the eastern Mediterranean Sea to support Moscow’s air campaign in...
View ArticleWhy Russia is pressing the 'accelerate' pedal in Syria
(CNN)Two weeks after they started, Russian airstrikes in Syria are ratcheting up -- and are being closely coordinated with regime ground forces as they try to seize rebel-held territory. According to...
View ArticleNoise in last second of Russian plane's cockpit recording
A noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording from the Russian plane that crashed last week in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the head of the joint investigation team said Saturday,...
View ArticleForeign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives a briefing on Ukraine’s humanitarian...
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation) Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gives a briefing on Ukraine's humanitarian crisis in Moscow on 25 August 2014 1972-25-08-2014 Good...
View ArticleRussia Cynical on Syria, Goal is International Prestige
As the United States and Russia struggle to cement a cease-fire in Syria that includes the embattled city of Aleppo, the Syrian military under President Bashar al-Assad indicated it would be a...
View ArticleThe Latest: Co-pilot's wife: He complained about plane
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The latest news on a Russian passenger plane that crashed Saturday on a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to St. Petersburg, Russia. 11:15 p.m. The wife of the co-pilot of the...
View ArticleRussian tourist jet's crash in Egypt leaves 224 dead; terrorism claim is...
A tourist charter jet filled with Russian vacationers mysteriously crashed in a remote part of Egypt's violence-plagued Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, leaving 224 passengers and crew members dead. There...
View ArticleRussian jet broke up in mid air, too early for conclusions: Director IAC
CAIRO: A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but stressed it was...
View ArticleThe Latest: More UK tourists stranded in Egypt on way home
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) -- The latest on the crash of a Russian plane in Egypt that killed all 224 people onboard. (All times local.) 6:30 p.m. A Thomas Cook flight - one of nine expected to return...
View ArticleDoes Putin have a secret plan to deploy Russian forces to Syria?
Signs of an ongoing Russian military buildup in Syria have drawn US concerns and raised questions of whether Moscow plans to enter the conflict. President Vladimir Putin has been coy on the subject,...
View ArticlePutin is being coy and fueling suspicions about what he plans to do in Syria
MOSCOW (AP) — Signs of an ongoing Russian military buildup in Syria have drawn U.S. concerns and raised questions of whether Moscow plans to enter the conflict. President Vladimir Putin has been coy on...
View ArticlePutin vows to hunt down, punish those who bombed Russian jet
A somber President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down and punish those responsible for a bomb that brought down a Russian passenger jet last month, "wherever they are hiding." Intensified Russian...
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