Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrived in Australia on Thursday morning ahead of a two- day visit, in which he will address the MH17 tragedy with Australian leaders.
Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was brought to a Dutch air force hangar.
The Australian government confirmed it would remain in Ukraine for as long as it took to complete the investigations into the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
High-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside cause the MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board investigating the disaster says in its first preliminary report.
Malaysia Airlines said Saturday in a statement that the company had contacted the next-of- kin of MH17 victims to initiate an advance compensation payment process.
The recovery mission at the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine was suspended until further notice due to the deteriorating security conditions in the area.
Ukraine said on Monday its troops had wrested more territory from pro-Russian rebels, advancing towards the site where Malaysian flight MH17 was brought down, which international investigators said they could not reach because of the fighting.
Ukrainian armed forces mounted a major onslaught against pro-Russian separatist fighters Sunday in an attempt to gain control over the area where a Malaysia Airlines plane was downed earlier this month.
An Air Algerie flight with 116 people on board, en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers, disappeared from radar 50 minutes after takeoff from Ouagadougou and was later confirmed to have crashed in Mali.
Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra confirmed late Thursday that an Air Algerie flight with 116 people onboard crashed in neighboring Mali.
The shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing all 298 people on board, shocked the world just as the memory of missing MH370 was slowly beginning to fade.
Victims of the Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine returned at last Wednesday to Dutch soil in 40 wooden coffins, solemnly and gently carried to 40 identical hearses, flags at half-staff flapping in the wind.
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