All Chinese airlines have rerouted their flights over eastern Ukraine following the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane in the region.
Rescuers have recovered as many as 181 bodies so far at the site of the Malaysian airliner crash in eastern Ukraine, an official at Kiev's Foreign Ministry told a briefing on Friday.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said the Ukrainian government should institute an investigation into the circumstances of the deadly MH17 incident.
Ukraine closed the airspace over eastern regions where it is carrying out a security operation, the country's infrastructure ministry said a day after 298 people died in a plane crash near the Russian border.
According to the statement, all the communication systems on the plane were functioning normally.
Malaysia Airlines said that all European flights operated by the company would be taking alternative routes avoiding the usual route.
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on Friday ordered Chinese aircraft flying over Ukraine to avoid eastern Ukraine airspace following the crash of a Malaysia Airlines plane in that region.
Some of the world's top AIDS experts, bound for an international conference in Melbourne, Australia, were among those killed in Malaysian Airlines MH17 crash, the International AIDS Society (IAS) announced on Friday.
Ukraine's state security chief accused two Russian military intelligence officers of involvement with pro-Russian rebels in the downing of a Malaysian airliner on Thursday, releasing chilling testimony of what he called an "inhuman crime."
At least 154 Dutch citizens have been killed in the Malayssian passenger crash in the eastern part of Ukraine on Thursday, the airlines European head said.
A Malaysian airliner crashed over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard.
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