Official: Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine

(AP) -- A Ukrainian official said a Malaysian passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over a town in the east of the country. Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister,

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Official: Malaysian plane shot down over Ukraine

(AP) -- A Ukrainian official said a Malaysian passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday over a town in the east of the country. Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's Interior Minister,

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