- Title: Highlights of main world events 2014-2016
- Date: 19th December 2019
- Summary: ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** MEN LYING ON THE GROUND AS SQUADRON MEMBERS STAND OVER THEM NEAR IZYUM, UKRAINE (FILE - JULY 8, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF THEN-UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT PETRO POROSHENKO LOOKING AT WEAPONS CONFISCATED FROM SEPARATIST REBELS UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION IN DONETSK REGION, UKRAINE (FILE - JULY 8, 2014) (REUTERS) SLOGAN WRITTEN ON CONCRETE BLOCK AT CHECKPOINT READING (Ukrainian): "LONG LIVE UKRAINIAN DONBASS" SLAVIANSK, UKRAINE (FILE - JULY 9, 2014) (REUTERS) BROKEN BUS STOP SIGN DAMAGED RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DAMAGED ROAD MISSILE STUCK IN ROAD DONETSK, UKRAINE (FILE - JULY 10, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF REBEL TANK DRIVING THROUGH CITY Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down on July 17, 2014 over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. American and Ukrainian officials named a Soviet-era Buk surface-to-air missile as the cause. Russia denied supplying the weapons system. HRABOVE, UKRAINE (FILE - JULY 17, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PLANE PARTS IN FIELD HRABOVE, UKRAINE (FILE - JULY 19, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF UKRAINIAN EMERGENCIES SERVICE WORKERS CARRYING STRETCHER THROUGH FIELD / PAST PLANE WRECKAGE WORKERS CARRYING BODY BAG ON STRETCHER TO ROAD HRABOVE, UKRAINE (FILE - NOVEMBER 16, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PARTS OF WRECKAGE BEING LIFTED AND LOADED ONTO BACK OF TRUCK Flight MH370 disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8 with 239 people, mostly Chinese, on board. Australia, China and Malaysia have now ended the search for the missing plane. Investigators believe someone may have deliberately switched off the transponder of the Boeing 777 before diverting it over the Indian Ocean. Several pieces of aircraft debris have been collected from Indian Ocean islands and along Africa's east coast, with at least three confirmed as being from the missing plane. SEPANG, MALAYSIA (FILE - MARCH 8, 2014) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) THEN-MALAYSIA AIRLINES GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AHMAD JAUHARI YAHYA SAYING: "Malaysia Airlines confirms that this Flight MH370 lost contact with Subang Air Traffic Control at 2.40 a.m., this morning." HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (FILE - MARCH 10, 2014) (REUTERS) VIETNAMESE SEARCH TEAM STANDING ON TARMAC NEXT TO PLANE AT SEA (FILE - MARCH 10, 2014) (REUTERS) PILOT IN COCKPIT MAPS IN COCKPIT PILOTS IN PLANE AERIAL VIEW OF SEA
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- Keywords: Aylan Kurdi Bastille Day Bataclan attack Bodrum Brexit Cameron resigns Charlie Hebdo Crimea Democrat Donald Trump Haj Houthi IAEA Iran Kathmandu MH17 shot down MH370 missing Maidan Malaysia Airlines Nepal Nice attack Oscar Pistorius Paris President Erdogan Presidental Palace Putin Reeva Steenkamp Republican Russia Sanaa Saudi Arabia Sout Africa Turkey UK US election Ukraine Vienna Yanukovich Yemen attack attempted coup earthquake gunmen migrant dinghies murder conviction nuclear deal pilgrims stampede
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- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
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