Two days after a fatal derailment in the Moscow Metro that claimed the lives of 23 commuters and injured more than 160 others, investigators and transportation security experts are still debating the causes of the accident, the deadliest in the metro's 79-year history.
Three metro cars skidded off the tracks between the Slavyansky Bulvar and Park Pobedy metro stations on the Dark Blue Line during rush hour on Tuesday morning.
http://www.themoscowtimes.comA Malaysia Airlines jet carrying 295 people has crashed in east Ukraine on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
There are no signs of survivors at the scene of the crash near the village of Grabovo, in rebel-held territory close to the border with Russia.
Both sides in Ukraine's civil conflict accused each other of shooting down the plane with a missile. It is still not clear why the plane came down.
http://www.bbc.comThe Israeli military launched a ground operation into Gaza late Thursday and called an extra 18,000 reservists into the conflict with Hamas.
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