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45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius. 455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him. 1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England. 1400 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1776 – American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy. 1824 – The Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London, dividing the Malay archipelago. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch. 1842 – The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo is formally organized with Emma Smith as president. 1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars. 1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed. 1862 – The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened. 1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board. 1901–present 1921 – The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution. 1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland. 1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture. 1948 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO. 1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium". 1957 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. 1958 – The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit.[ 1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. 1960 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 710 crashes in Tobin Township, Perry County, Indiana, killing 63. 1963 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing more than 1,100 people. 1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. 1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead. 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. 1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. 1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers. 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree. 1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. 1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet. 1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242. 1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
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'Acquit Me,' Russian MH17 Suspect Tells Dutch Judges
‘Acquit Me,’ Russian MH17 Suspect Tells Dutch Judges
A Russian suspect accused of downing Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 told Dutch judges on Friday he had “nothing to do with the disaster,” as the long-running trial concluded. Oleg Pulatov is one of four men on trial in absentia for shooting down the jetliner in July 2014 as it passed over war-torn eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers on board. The trial is being held in the Netherlands as…
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Federation of Anarchism Era on Iran and Afghanistan
The collective we spoke to for this episode began as a series of remotely-hosted blogs and communication methods among Iranian anarchists at home and abroad. By 2015 anarchists from Afghanistan had started to join and in 2018 the comrades from within Iran and Afghanistan and those living internationally founded Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran. Since, more individuals and groups have joined up from around North Africa, the middle east and other places in the world and they in 2020 re-organized themselves the Federation of Anarchism Era. Last January, after the assassination by the US Trump administration of the murderous Quds leader Soleymani we spoke with members of the then-named AUAI about the network, living under 19 years of US war and 40 years of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This week, Aryana, a member of the Federation of Anarchism Era, shares collective answers to some of our questions and a few personal insights to ongoing events in Iran and Afghanistan. He talks about the recent election of Ebrahim Raisi to the Iranian presidency, a man who helped to oversee the death committees that executed thousands of political prisoners, as well what the election of Biden in the US and the two governments agreements on nuclear development and the sanctions the international community is imposing on Iran. You’ll hear about the course of covid in Iran, the release of prisoners last year, the outcomes of the 2019 uprisings against the government and those in 2020 after the Iranian government downed a Ukrainian jetliner, as well as viewpoints of members of the FAE in Afghanistan on the Taliban expansion as the US withdraws troops and words of solidarity for many places around the world in revolt against authority.
You can read reports by the FAE on their website, asranarshism.com, and keep up by following the project on twitter, fedbook, instagram, youtube and telegram (all listed from their website in the upper left hand corner). Keep an eye out for a fundraiser soon to support survival and defense needs of anarchists in Afghanistan as the Taliban takes back more territory and other initiatives. You can hear our 2020 interview with a member of the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran on our website, where it is also transcribed. A transcription of this interview will be available in the near future.
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Week of Solidarity with Abtin Parsa, July 12-19, 2021
As a related announcements, this week the Federation has announced a week of solidarity with queer Iranian anarchist Abtin Parsa from July 12-19th, 2021. Abtin was persecuted by the Iranian government in 2014 for outspoken atheism (a state crime in a theocracy) and anti-state speech, imprisoned for a year and a half at 14 years old. In 2016 he escaped to Greece and was harassed and threatened while abroad by organizations affiliated with the Iranian state. Though given a limited political asylum in Greece, he was arrested multiple times for organizing and protesting, tortured and imprisoned for periods. Abtin was forced to leave Greece and he applied for asylum in Netherlands. In April of this year, Abin Parsa was charged by Dutch police with organizing among immigrants and now faces extradition back to Greece and possible extradition from there (after a prison sentence) to Iran. More on his case and his own words can be found linked in our show notes and on asranarshism.com and the Federation of Anarchism Era’s various social media.
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Ukraine jet downed by missile, U.S. and Canada say
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WASHINGTON — The Ukrainian jet that crashed this week after taking off from Tehran appears to have been downed by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.
Intelligence indicates the Iranian military accidentally shot down the Ukrainian airliner with a Russian-supplied anti-aircraft missile, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. All 176 aboard the Boeing 737 were killed.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed early Wednesday local time, shortly after Iran launched16 ballistic missiles on Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers.Iran’s attack was retaliation after the killing of one of its top officials, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, in a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump that has drawn a mixed reaction from U.S. and world leaders.
U.S. intelligence sensors showed Iranian air-defense radar locked onto the passenger plane, the official said. Iran’s military then launched two SA-15 surface-to-air missiles and brought the plane down in a fiery crash.
It’s unclear if the Ukrainian airliner was mistaken as a threat by the Iranian military, the official said.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he, too, believed a missile was the cause of the plane crash, citing intelligence reports. Some 63 Canadians were among those who died.
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That missile firing could have been an accident, Trudeau said Thursday at a news conference. Still, a “full and credible” investigation is required.
Asked if the U.S. should share some of the blame for the plane crash, Trudeau, who has had a testy relationship with Trump, again emphasized the need for a thorough investigation. 
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Canada is working with Ukrainian crash investigators, Trudeau said. Iran is insisting the plane’s cockpit and flight data recorders — the “black boxes” — be kept in its country, Trudeau said. But, he said, Iran has told Ukraine it will have access to the data. 
Trump said Thursday he found the plane crash suspicious and that “somebody could have made a mistake on the other side.”  
Though at least one Iranian official had earlier cast doubt on whether U.S. officials would be allowed in the probe, the National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S. says it will be following international rules regarding aircraft accidents. Those rules allow it to appoint an accredited representative to the investigation, according to an official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Boeing said it will be supporting the NTSB in a probe.
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In Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said investigators were looking into claims that parts of a Russian-made, surface-to-air missile stocked by Iran had been found near the crash site.
The head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, Ali Abedzadeh, quickly moved to dispute any suggestion that it shot down Ukraine’s commercial airliner, according to Iran state media. The Fars News Agency, citing Abedzadeh, said its missiles were not capable of reaching that altitude. Abedzadeh characterized the suggestion as “scientifically impossible.”
In a preliminary crash report issued Thursday, Iran’s civil aviation authority said the plane’s crew never made a radio call for help and was trying to turn back to the airport when the plane went down. The plane apparently suffered engine failure, Iranian officials said.
Iran says engine failure: As early as Thursday, experts were skeptical
IHS Markit, a London-based research and intelligence firm, says publicly available air traffic data is “not consistent” with Iran’s claim. The firm says flight data shows a normal ascent until the plane disappears at 8,000 feet.
“This is consistent with a catastrophic incident onboard the aircraft,” the report said.
The evidence overwhelmingly points to a catastrophic event in midair, said Mary Schiavo, a former U.S. Department of Transportation inspector general. She said not only did the plane’s crew not send out a distress call, the aircraft itself has the capability to report any mechanical issues. It did not. 
“It’s clear that the aircraft did not send any problem messages back to the airline,” she said, adding that “the aircraft did not turn around. Any turn that people saw was the aircraft falling from the sky.”
Publicly available flight data show the aircraft turning to the right before it crashed. Schiavo, who’s seen the data, said it’s unlikely that the flight’s crew had the chance to change course.
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It’s likely U.S. officials would have detected any missile in the area where the plane crashed, said Ed Coleman, chairman of the department of safety science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona. That could have been accomplished with a satellite, or a drone, he said.
“There are probably U.S. assets and other countries’ assets that they could monitor and pick that up,” Coleman said.
Ukraine has experience with this sort of crisis. A Malaysia Airlines jetliner was downed over eastern Ukraine in 2014, resulting in 298 deaths. The investigation showed it was destroyed by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile fired from eastern Ukraine in an area held by pro-Russian rebels.
Ukraine became part of a four-nation team led by the Dutch that brought charges against four suspects after a five-year investigation. Those charged included three Russians and a Ukrainian.
Iran, too, has mourned military shootdowns of civilian jetliners. In 1988, the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes mistakenly shot down an Iran Air jet over the Persian Gulf shortly after its takeoff from Tehran.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said a special commission’s investigation of the crash is underway. Zelensky said he has asked the prime ministers of the UK, Canada, Sweden, and the president of Iran for any information that could move the probe forward.
“Ukraine is interested in finding the truth,” he said. “I ask all our international partners, if you have any evidence to assist the investigation, please provide it.”
Contributing: Kim Hjelmgaard and Curtis Tate, USA TODAY. 
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Major commercial plane crash deaths fell by over 50% in 2019: Report - world news
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The number of people killed in large commercial airplane crashes fell by more than 50% in 2019 despite a high-profile Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia in March, a Dutch consulting firm said on Wednesday.Aviation consulting firm To70 said there were 86 accidents involving large commercial planes - including eight fatal incidents - resulting in 257 fatalities last year. In 2018, there were 160 accidents, including 13 fatal ones, resulting in 534 deaths, the firm said.To70 said the fatal accident rate for large airplanes in commercial passenger air transport was just 0.18 fatal accident per million flights in 2019, or an average one fatal accident every 5.58 million flights, a significant improvement over 2018. The fatality numbers include passengers, air crew such as flight attendants and any people on the ground killed in a plane accidentLarge passenger airplanes in the study are aircraft used by nearly all travellers on airlines worldwide but excludes small commuter airplanes in service, including the Cessna Caravan and some smaller turboprop airplanes, according to To70.On Dec. 23, Boeing’s board said it had fired Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg after a pair of fatal crashes involving the 737 MAX forced it to announce it was halting output of its best-selling jetliner. The 737 MAX has been grounded since March after an October 2018 crash in Indonesia and the crash of a MAX in Ethiopia in March killed a total of 346 people. To70 said the aviation industry spent significant effort in 2019 “focusing on so-called ‘future threats’ such as drones.” But the MAX crashes “are a reminder that we need to retain our focus on the basics that make civil aviation so safe: well-designed and well-built aircraft flown by fully informed and well-trained crews.”The Aviation Safety Network said on Wednesday that, despite the MAX crash, 2019 “was one of the safest years ever for commercial aviation.” The 157 people killed in March on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 accounted for more than half of all deaths last year worldwide in passenger airline crashes. Over the last two decades, aviation deaths around the world have been falling dramatically even as travel has increased. As recently as 2005, there were 1,015 deaths aboard commercial passenger flights worldwide, the Aviation Safety Network said.In 2017, aviation had its safest year on record worldwide with only two fatal accidents involving regional turboprops that resulted in 13 deaths and no fatal crashes of passenger jets.Last week, 12 people were killed when a Fokker 100 operated by Kazakh carrier Bek Air crashed near Almaty after takeoff. In May, a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft caught fire as it made an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, killing 41 people.The figures do not include accidents involving military flights, training flights, private flights, cargo operations and helicopters. Read the full article
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Events 3.17
45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius. 455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him. 1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England. 1400 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1776 – American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy. 1824 – The Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London, dividing the Malay archipelago. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch. 1842 – The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo is formally organized with Emma Smith as president. 1860 – The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand Wars. 1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed. 1862 – The first railway line of Finland between cities of Helsinki and Hämeenlinna, called Päärata, is officially opened. 1891 – SS Utopia collides with HMS Anson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board. 1921 – The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution. 1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland. 1945 – The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture. 1948 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO. 1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium". 1957 – A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others. 1958 – The United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, which is also the first satellite to achieve a long-term orbit. 1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. 1963 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali killing more than 1,100 people. 1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. 1968 – As a result of nerve gas testing by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead. 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel. 1973 – The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War. 1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers. 1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree. 1988 – A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143. 1988 – Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet. 1992 – Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242. 1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%. 2000 – Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead. 2003 – Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. 2004 – Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed. 2016 – Rojava conflict: At a conference in Rmelan, the Movement for a Democratic Society declares the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria.
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Drone chaos: a wake-up call for airports around the world
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Recreational micro air vehicle or drones are becoming increasingly popularity. Drones have been around for a while: the first commercial drone permits were issued in 2006. By 2016, over 2.4 million personal drones were sold in the US. In 2018, was hardly some unforeseeable use of rare, futuristic technology to wreak havoc; one of the passengers caught up in the mayhem had to swallow the bitter irony of an advertisement for drones on his plane ticket.
Last month, a number of drones caused chaos at Gatwick airport, near London. The drones caused flight cancellations over a number of days in December and mass passenger disruption as a result. More than 400 EasyJet flights were cancelled due to drone sightings, costing the airline  £15m in passenger compensation and lost revenues, and hitting 82,000 customers. EasyJet paid out £10m in "customer welfare costs" and said it had lost £5m of revenue due to flight cancellations. EasyJet's chief executive, Johan Lundgren, said he was "disappointed" the airport took so long to resolve the situation and reopen the runways.
Altogether, more than 1,000 flights were grounded and around 140,000 passengers affected. The criminal act led to the arrest of two people and runway operations came to a halt. The move to suspend flights was understandable. Airports and the airlines that pay them don't want to see a drone sucked into a jetliner's engine, or a drone that's rigged as an explosive device wreaking havoc.
In January, London's Heathrow airport also had to suspend flights after drone sightings there. So what can be done to prevent a couple of drones and some rogue pilots from disrupting millions of dollars of business by causing flight delays and negative experiences for travelers? Start-ups like Dedrone in San Francisco and larger defense firms like the Israeli company Rafael and Rome-based Leonardo do offer counter-drone technology, though their systems are not perfect and constantly evolving.
So aviation authorities could use high-resolution radar and other sensors to detect drones. It could be a portable system — a laptop with an antenna — that picks up signals from some drones that are nearby. The system would scan a certain frequency and looksfor a signature that would be indicative of a drone. Now,  how ubiquitous existing systems are in terms of detecting all types of drones right away? No one knows. But that would be a step in the right direction.
Also, airports could use lasers, ballistics, nets and signal jammers to intercept and take drones down as needed. Now, shooting them down would be a radical solution, but there are always going to be concerns over damage and the risks of stray bullets. At Gatwick, Sussex Police had initially ruled out that option. But as more drones were spotted, assistant chief Const. Steve Barry later said that "even shotguns would be available to officers should the opportunity present itself."
So why don't they when there's so much at stake — in terms of safety and profits? Well, players in the air travel industry are still grappling with the question of authority. Interdictions are allowed at military bases in the United States and some fixed sites that are owned by federal agencies. But authority hasn't been determined at every commercial airport. Who controls the airspace and has the right to intervene when drones are detected? Is it federal police, local police, someone who owns the airspace? No one really knows.
A solution to the problem, other than the clear distribution of roles between the police and other players in the industry, would be remote identification based on license plates. With remote identification, airports could easily identify a drone's owner and contact them to land the drone if it's flying where it shouldn't.
The most original suggestion has come from an Amsterdam-based company, Guard from Above, which offers its services in terms of "intercepting hostile drones using birds of prey." On its website, it claims it has been asked to train a number of eagles for the Dutch national police and has provided counter-unmanned aircraft system services at a number of public events in The Netherlands...
No matter how the laws shape up and counter-drone technology evolves, Sherry said the disruptions at Heathrow and Gatwick should serve as a wake-up call. Quick regulatory changes are needed. Law enforcement in the U.K. is now permitted to land, seize and search drones, and to fine operators who fail to comply with orders to land their small drones, or fine those who fly without properly registering their drones as well.
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Nearly 6 Years After MH17 Was Shot Down, Dutch Prosecutors Say They Will Sue Russia Russia has denied any involvement in the 2014 crash of the Malaysian jetliner that killed nearly 300 people. Investigators say it was hit by a Russian-supplied surface-to-air missile.
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Murder trial begins in Netherlands court for MH17 shootdown
Some portion of the destruction of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is seen close Grabovo, Ukraine, on July 20, 2014. Document Photo by Igor Kovalenko/EPA-EFE 
Walk 9 (UPI) - The homicide preliminary of three Russians and a Ukrainian blamed for killing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 started in the Netherlands Monday in a procedure that could keep going for a considerable length of time. 
The four men are being attempted in absentia, as they have not yet been caught. A lawyer for one of the respondents, Russian Oleg Pulatov, was available in the Schiphol court as judge Hendrik Steenhuis opened the preliminary over five years after the aircraft was killed. 
The respondents are blamed for killing the Malaysian jetliner on July 17, 2014, with a rocket over Ukraine as it was on the way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Every one of the 298 travelers and group kicked the bucket in the accident. 66% of the travelers were Dutch. 
Dutch authorities decided the BUK rocket was terminated from farmland in eastern Ukraine that was constrained by expert Russian separatists. Moscow, in any case, questions the end and says Ukrainian government powers terminated the rocket. 
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The respondents being investigated are Pulatov, Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy of Russia and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko. They deal with indictments of homicide and of making the jetliner crash. 
"Many have ached for this procedure for quite a while," Steenhuis said in his introductory statements. 
The main phases of the preliminary will focus on fundamental issues before declaration starts in the not so distant future. The preliminary is relied upon to take years, with more examinations to be directed and more presumes liable to be included. 
RELATED Malaysia pioneer: No confirmation Russia behind shootdown of MH17 
Dutch specialists discharged sound chronicles the previous fall that were captured in the weeks prior to the accident, which they said demonstrated close coordination between separatists in the Donetsk People's Republic and "pioneers in Moscow." 
"They talked with pioneers in Moscow, close to the fringe with Ukraine and in Crimea," the agents said. "Correspondence generally occurred by means of secure phones gave by the Russian security administration." 
In the calls, agents state, dissenter pioneer Alexander Borodai talked once to a Russian authority and said he was "completing requests and ensuring the interests" of Russia. 
RELATED 4 suspects named in 2014 shootdown of MH17 over Ukraine 
In December, Moscow rejected a Dutch solicitation to turn over another suspect for the situation, Ukrainian national Volodymyr Tsemakh, who's distinguished as a top nonconformist pioneer. He was in Ukrainian guardianship until he was sent to Russia in a detainee swap toward the end of last year.
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Kids to the Rescue: Film Festival Shines a Light on Activism
Over the next four weekends children will help save endangered species, prevent a jetliner from crashing, rescue girls from forced marriages and even marshal a revolt against a sitting president (but not the one in the White House).
All these deeds will take place onscreen as the New York International Children’s Film Festival brings works from more than 30 countries — including a new program of Spanish-language short films — to theaters in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. But even though some of the cinematic actions are fictional, the 18 feature presentations and 93 shorts add up to an overwhelming celebration of young people taking charge.
“We are always looking for films that show kids who are empowered to make change,” said Nina Guralnick, executive director of the 23-year-old festival. But along with the recent global rise in youthful activism, she added, “we were seeing movies that reflected that trend.”
One of the most striking is the French documentary “Forward: Tomorrow Belongs to Us,” which has its first of three festival screenings on Saturday. Its director, Gilles de Maistre, profiles seven young activists, including Aissatou, 12, who in the course of the film (and with police assistance) actually interrupts a marriage procession in Guinea to inform the 14-year-old bride-to-be of her rights. The movie also includes Hunter, 11, who helps rehabilitate rhinos in South Africa, and José Adolfo, who at 13 won the 2018 Children’s Climate Prize for a bank he founded in Peru: Young people establish accounts by being paid for the recyclables they collect. (He will lead a post-screening Q. and A.)
Young moviegoers can find fictional characters who are just as forward-thinking in titles like “Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale” and “Rocca Changes the World.” The animated “Fritzi,” from the German filmmakers Ralf Kukula and Matthias Bruhn, follows an East German 12-year-old girl who is caught up in the fall of the Berlin Wall. “Rocca” concerns the breaking of different kinds of barriers as it focuses on an intrepid 11-year-old whose father is an astronaut. Directed by Katja Benrath, who will visit the festival on March 7 for a Q. and A., this German feature begins as the aeronautically savvy Rocca (Luna Marie Maxeiner) calmly lands a plane whose crew has food poisoning, and then skateboards away. But that is not the end of her resourcefulness. She also combats bullying and homelessness.
“It’s like a modern Pippi Longstocking story,” Benrath said in a telephone conversation from Hamburg. She noted that the film’s message was simple: “It’s easy to change the world. Everybody can. Just start with themselves.”
The annual festival, which begins on Friday night with “Children of the Sea,” the Japanese director Ayumu Watanabe’s manga-inspired animated feature about three adolescents with a mystical connection to ocean life, has always been a pioneer, too. It consistently offers titles for teenagers as well as for younger audiences. It is also one of the few children’s film festivals that is Oscar-qualifying: The shorts that win prizes from its adult jury can compete for Academy Awards. (That jury’s longstanding members include the filmmakers Sofia Coppola and Taika Waititi, who just won a screenwriting Oscar for “JoJo Rabbit.”)
And while diversity still seems to be a challenge for Hollywood, this festival cultivates it. In 2020, women directed 53 percent of its shorts. This is also the first time the events will include an industry forum, Towards an Inclusive Future, at which gender and ethnic representation in children’s media will be discussed.
“We’re really trying to complete a circle, and go from our audiences and what they need and what they’ve been asking for, to our filmmakers and what they need,” said Maria-Christina Villaseñor, the festival’s programming director.
Some of those filmmakers have created works that might initially seem disturbing for young audiences. But the festival does not shy away from subjects like death and divorce.
“If you’re not shaken up a little, you shouldn’t be doing it,” Villaseñor said about her role as programmer. “That’s what art should do, and it doesn’t matter how old you are.”
One film she at first found unsettling — starting with its title — was “The Club of Ugly Children,” a Dutch feature adapted from Koos Meinderts’s 1987 book. Set in a rigidly ordered dystopia whose motto is “Keep It Clean,” the movie concerns an autocratic president who decides to intern all children he finds unattractive. After a boy escapes, a youth-led underground rebellion starts.
The film is “like a celebration of diversity,” said Jonathan Elbers, the director, speaking by phone from Amsterdam. “There is not a stand on what is pretty or what is not. The kids are just kids.” That approach, said Elbers, who will take part in a festival Q. and A. on March 7, puts the focus on “Who are you to decide I don’t belong in this society?”
The festival also addresses revolutions that are less political than personal. The shorts programs “Girls’ POV” and “Boys Beyond Boundaries” explore and expand gender roles. Géraldine Charpentier’s “Self Story,” an animated Belgian short, is screening in both programs because its subject, Lou, is nonbinary. An American film in the “Boys” slate, “Grab My Hand: A Letter to My Dad,” by Camrus Johnson and Pedro Piccinini, delves deeply into grief. Johnson conceived the film after the unexpected death of his father’s best friend. Memorializing the older men’s bond, it urges male viewers not to leave love unspoken.
“Express what you feel,” Johnson said, “because sometimes you can make someone’s day — or someone’s life.”
The festival, however, is not all weighty themes. Aardman Animations’ latest Shaun the Sheep comedy, “Farmageddon,” and “NYCIFF Rocks,” a new all-ages shorts program that celebrates music, are among the lighter fare. Teenage rockers can also expect humor — and plenty of beats — in Kenji Iwaisawa’s “On-Gaku: Our Sound,” about Japanese high school musicians, and Simon Bird’s “Days of the Bagnold Summer,” a British movie with Earl Cave (son of Nick) and an original score by the indie band Belle and Sebastian. Villaseñor expects that title to continue a festival tradition of engaging grown-ups as much as their offspring.
“I’ve had conversations with people who have adult children now, and they talk wistfully about the festival,” she said. “And they tell me, almost as a little secret, that they want to come back this year.”
The New York International Children’s Film Festival Through March 15 at various locations; 212-349-0330, nyicff.org.
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U.S. FAA Bans Iran Airspace and Airways Cancel, Reroute Flights
http://tinyurl.com/y42o9a7y Early Friday morning, the Federal Aviation Administration banned all U.S.-registered aircraft from flying over Iranian airspace, and airways worldwide are following the steering. The FAA warned of a “potential for miscalculation or misidentification” within the area after an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Thursday introduced down an unmanned U.S. drone with a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 737 jetliner. Iran mentioned the drone “violated” its territorial airspace, whereas the U.S. referred to as the missile hearth “an unprovoked assault” in worldwide airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, the slender mouth of the Persian Gulf. There are “heightened navy actions and elevated political tensions within the area, which current an inadvertent danger to U.S. civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification,” the FAA mentioned. The Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman are essential areas for worldwide air journey, and lots of world airways are following the U.S. security recommendation. Lufthansa, Germany’s largest airline, said it had been avoiding the Strait of Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman since Thursday, however that it might proceed to function its flights to Tehran. Dutch service KLM also said it would keep away from the strait, calling the transfer a “precautionary measure,” in accordance with the Related Press. United Airways mentioned it has suspended its flights between Newark, N.J., and Mumbai, India, which fly by means of Iranian airspace, following a “thorough security and safety evaluation.” Australia’s Qantas mentioned it might reroute its flights to and from London to keep away from the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman. British Airways additionally mentioned it is going to reroute flights away from the Strait of Hormuz. The corporate mentioned Friday that “our security and safety groups are continuously liaising with authorities world wide as a part of their complete danger evaluation into each route we function.” Malaysia Airways said it was avoiding the airspace, which it usually traversed for its flights between Kuala Lumpur and London, Jeddah, and Medina. “The airline is carefully monitoring the state of affairs and is guided by numerous assessments, together with safety stories and notices to airmen,” it mentioned. Singapore Airways mentioned a few of its flights may require longer routings to keep away from Iranian-controlled airspace. Lengthy-haul Gulf airways in danger The state of affairs might additional imperil the underside traces of Persian Gulf long-haul carriers, which have already got faced challenges underneath the Trump administration. The Gulf is dwelling to among the world’s high long-haul carriers, which have been battered by Trump’s journey bans concentrating on a bunch of predominantly Muslim international locations, in addition to an earlier ban on laptops in airplane cabins for Center Japanese carriers. Etihad, the Abu Dhabi-based long-haul service, mentioned it had “contingency plans” in place, with out elaborating. Gulf carriers like Etihad may very well be at additional danger due to the brand new FAA ban on Iranian airspace. (Picture by Marina Lystseva—TASS through Getty Pictures) “We’ll resolve what additional motion is required after fastidiously evaluating the FAA directive to U.S. carriers,” the service instructed The AP. OPSGROUP, an organization that gives steering to world airways, wrote Friday: “The specter of a civil plane shoot-down in southern Iran is actual.” OPSGROUP mentioned the Iranian weapons system that shot down the drone was similar to the Russian Buk system utilized in 2014 Malaysian Airways shoot-down in Ukraine. Because the MH17 catastrophe, all international locations depend on airspace danger recommendation from the U.S., U.Okay., France and Germany. “Any error in that system might trigger it to search out one other goal close by—another excuse to not be wherever close to this a part of the Straits of Hormuz,” OPSGROUP mentioned. “Backside line: we shouldn’t be flying passenger plane wherever close to conflict zones.” Deserted plans for retaliation In response to the drone downing, President Donald Trump initially tweeted that “Iran made a really large mistake!” He later appeared to minimize the incident, telling reporters within the Oval Workplace that he had a sense “a basic or any individual” being “unfastened and silly” made a mistake in neutralizing the drone. A U.S. official said the military made preparations Thursday night for restricted strikes on Iran in retaliation for the downing, but approval was abruptly withdrawn before the attacks were launched, in accordance with the AP. Trump mentioned the escalating Iran disaster at a press convention with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday. (Picture by Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Put up through Getty Pictures) The drone incident instantly heightened the crisis already gripping the broader area, which is rooted in Trump withdrawing the U.S. a 12 months in the past from Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal and imposing crippling new sanctions on Tehran. Just lately, Iran quadrupled its manufacturing of low-enriched uranium to be on tempo to interrupt one of many deal’s phrases by subsequent week, whereas threatening to boost enrichment nearer to weapons-grade ranges on July 7 if Europe doesn’t supply it a brand new deal. Citing unspecified Iranian threats, the U.S. has despatched an plane service to the Center East and deployed extra troops alongside the tens of 1000’s already there. All this has raised fears {that a} miscalculation or additional rise in tensions might push the U.S. and Iran into an open battle, 40 years after Tehran’s Islamic Revolution. “We would not have any intention for conflict with any nation, however we’re absolutely prepared for conflict,” Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami mentioned in a televised deal with Thursday. Extra must-read tales from Fortune: —Manufacturers are leaving China—for causes past the commerce conflict —Cruises to Cuba are banned, however the ships sail on —That is the one topic within the U.Okay. that’s as toxic as Brexit —German safety chiefs say Alexa should provide evidence in court —Take heed to our new audio briefing, Fortune 500 Daily Meet up with Data Sheet, Fortune‘s day by day digest on the enterprise of tech. Source link
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4 charged in downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — International prosecutors announced murder charges Wednesday against four men — three of them Russians with military or intelligence backgrounds — in the missile attack that blew a Malaysia Airlines jet out of the sky over Ukraine five years ago, killing all 298 people aboard.
The case, built with the help of wiretaps, radar images and social media posts, marks the most significant step yet toward tying the tragedy to Moscow, which has backed the pro-Russian separatists fighting to seize control of eastern Ukraine.
In announcing the charges, prosecutors appealed for witnesses to help lead them even further up the chain of command in President Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Investigators “want to go as far as we can get” because “it’s important to know who can be held responsible for this absolute tragedy,” top Dutch prosecutor Fred Westerbeke said.
The trial for the defendants, who also include a Ukrainian separatist fighter, was set for next March in the Netherlands, though it appeared unlikely any of them would be brought before the court, since Russia and Ukraine forbid the extradition of their citizens.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the charges against the Russian citizens as “absolutely unfounded” and accused the investigators of using “dubious sources of information” and ignoring evidence provided by Moscow in order to discredit Russia.
It said, too, that the international team turned a blind eye to Ukraine’s failure to close its airspace to commercial flights despite the fighting that endangered aircraft.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was brought down on July 17, 2014, over eastern Ukraine by what investigators said was a Buk missile from a Russian anti-aircraft unit. Investigators believe the Ukrainian rebels probably mistook the Boeing 777 passenger jet for a Ukrainian military plane.
Russia has repeatedly denied involvement in the attack, but eastern Ukraine’s pro-Moscow rebels have relied heavily on Russian military assistance during the separatist conflict that erupted in April 2014 and has claimed more than 13,000 lives.
Associated Press reporters spotted a Buk, an unusually big and sophisticated type of weapon, in the Ukrainian town of Snizhne just hours before the jetliner was shot down, raining debris and bodies down onto farms and sunflower fields.
The investigation team said that even if the four defendants may not have actually pushed the button to launch the missile, they had a role in the preparations.
One of those charged was Russian citizen Igor Girkin, a retired colonel in Russia’s main intelligence agency, the FSB. He led Russian and separatist forces in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in 2014.
Girkin dismissed the accusations in a telephone interview Wednesday, saying the “insurgents did not shoot down the Boeing.” Girkin lives in Moscow.
The three others charged are Russian citizens Sergey Dubinskiy, identified as a former employee of Russia’s military intelligence service, and Oleg Pulatov, described as a former soldier in military intelligence; and Leonid Kharchenko, a Ukrainian citizen who led a combat unit in the Donetsk.
Girkin led a group of Russian men who crossed into Ukraine and occupied the town of Slovyansk, which became the site of major fighting. He wrote on his social media account around the time of the jetliner attack that the rebels had shot down a Ukrainian military plane in the area where the Malaysian aircraft went down. He later deleted that post.
The Joint Investigation Team, made up of detectives from the Netherlands, Malaysia, Australia, Belgium and Ukraine, said the trial will begin with or without the defendants in a top-security courtroom near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport under Dutch law, which allows trials in absentia. The men could get life in prison if convicted.
The Netherlands has taken the lead in efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice because nearly 200 of those killed were Dutch citizens.
Investigators have been gathering and analyzing evidence largely without help from Moscow, which dismissed the team as biased because it has no Russian members.
Last year, the team said it was convinced that the Buk missile system used to shoot down the plane came from the Russian army’s 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile brigade, based in the Russian city of Kursk.
Prosecutors appealed for witnesses to come forward to help identify the crew that manned the missile launcher and to take them further up the chain of command to identify those who authorized its deployment.
The team did not reveal much evidence Wednesday, saying the courtroom is the place to lay out the case, but played a wiretap of an alleged conversation between Alexander Borodai, who was rebel leader in the Donetsk in 2014, and senior Kremlin official Vladislav Surkov in which they appear to discuss military aid for the separatists.
Borodai on Wednesday denied discussing military support with Surkov, calling the recording a fake.
Asked to characterize Moscow’s cooperation with the probe, Westerbeke said it “wasn’t too good,” saying investigators had asked plenty of questions, “and a lot of those questions weren’t answered.”
The families of those killed were informed of the trial date at a closed-door meeting.
Silene Fredriksz-Hoogzand, of the Dutch city of Rotterdam, whose son Bryce was among the dead, expressed relief.
“This is what we hoped for,” she said. “This is a start of it. It is a good start.”
She said she holds Putin responsible for the attack, saying: “He made this possible. He created the situation.” As for Russia’s lack of cooperation, she said, “I think it’s disgusting. They deny everything, they don’t cooperate. Nothing.”
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Events 10.8
314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories. 451 – The first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins. 876 – Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat emperor Charles II ("the Bald"). 1075 – Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia. 1200 – Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England. 1322 – Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban after the Battle of Bliska. 1480 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War. 1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal. 1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria. 1821 – The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence. 1829 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials. 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident. 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville. 1871 – Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out. 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos. 1895 – Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators. 1912 – The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. 1918 – World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. 1939 – World War II: Germany annexes western Poland. 1941 – World War II: During the preliminaries of the Battle of Rostov, German forces reach the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol. 1943 – World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete. 1944 – World War II: Captain Bobbie Brown earns a Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Crucifix Hill, just outside Aachen. 1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people. 1956 – The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series. 1962 – Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason. 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago. 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature. 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions. 1973 – Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule. 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States. 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots at Blowering Dam, Australia. 1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions. 1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000. 1990 – First Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock. 1991 – Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia. 2001 – A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people. 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. 2005 – The 7.6 Mw  Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless. 2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies. 2016 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to nearly 900. 2019 – About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland. 2020 – Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijan twice deliberately targeted the Church of the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots of Shusha.
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