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HUNDREDS of people commemorated the first anniversary of a Malaysian airliner being shot down in the east Ukrainian village of Hrabove yesterday.
Some 200 residents of the Donbass-region village held a memorial service and a procession to the fields where the plane hit the ground, killing all 298 people on board.
Donetsk Republic Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko, who arrived at the commemoration ceremony on crutches, accused Kiev forces of shooting down the airliner.
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died 50 years ago today November 20. JIM JUMP looks back at his blood-soaked rule and toxic legacy on Spain today
