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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is sending 50 police to London in anticipation of deploying them to the Ukraine to secure the Malaysian plane crash site. They'll be part of a United Nations team. Prime Minister Tony Abbott says foreign ministers of Australia and the Netherlands are going to Kiev to seek a memorandum of understanding that will allow international police to secure the crash site in rebel-held east Ukraine. The plane was shot down last week.
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's government says 51 more containers holding the remains of Malaysia Airlines crash victims are ready to leave Ukraine for the Netherlands aboard two military transport planes. The first bodies arrived in the Netherlands yesterday and were met by the Dutch king and queen and hundreds of victims' relatives. Most of the 298 people killed were Dutch citizens.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say 60 people have been killed in an attack on a prisoner convoy north of Baghdad. Officials say terror suspects were being evacuated from a prison 12 miles north of Baghdad because of fears of a jailbreak. They say gunmen attacked the convoy, setting off a gunbattle with troops. Killed this morning were 52 prisoners and eight soldiers.
TOKYO (AP) — World shares are rattled today by reports the European Union is weighing stiffer financial sanctions against Russia, following the shootdown of a Malaysia Airlines plane over a part of Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists. Asian stocks closed mixed, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng up 0.7 and South Korea's Kospi down 0.1 percent. The Nikkei slipped 0.3 percent. European markets opened lower.
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BEIJING (AP) — Police in northeastern China are detaining a man accused of castrating three patients in a nursing home. The official Xinhua (shihn-wah) News Agency reports that two of the patients are bedridden and the third is mentally handicapped. Reports say the man tied up the patients Tuesday and used a dull razor. There are conflicting reports as to whether the suspect is a nursing home staff member or a patient.
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