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A Palestinian child runs on debris from a destroyed house, following an overnight Israeli strike in Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza strip, Saturday, July 19, 2014.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (Associated Press) — Israeli bulldozers demolished more than a dozen tunnels Saturday in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian authorities reported intensified airstrikes and shelling as the death toll from Israel's ground offensive rose to at least 342 Palestinians. Diplomats struggled to revive a cease-fire.
Israeli soldiers uncovered 34 shafts leading into about a dozen underground tunnels, some as deep as 30 meters (yards), that could be used to carry out attacks, the military said.
Still, Palestinian gunmen managed to infiltrate Israel from Gaza using another tunnel and killed two Israeli soldiers and injured several others, the military said. At least one Palestinian was killed in the clash. Hamas said 12 of its fighters participated in the attack.
Sgt. Adar Barsano was killed July 19
It was the second time Palestinians had used their network of underground tunnels to penetrate Israel in the current round of fighting. Israel embarked on its ground offensive late Thursday in part to seek and destroy the tunnels.
Pro-Palestinian protesters face police during a demonstration against violence in the Gaza strip, which had been banned by police, in Paris, July 19, 2014
Thirteen heavily armed Palestinians sneaked through a tunnel from Gaza and emerged inside Israel near a southern community. The militants were killed by an Israeli airstrike after they popped out of the tunnel.
Shimon Daniel, a retired brigadier general and former head of the Israeli military's engineer corps, said the military knew that Hamas had a large number of tunnels designed to assault Israel.
"I think finding 13 tunnels in such a short time is a great achievement," he told Channel 10 TV.
Hamas tunnel
He said demolishing the tunnels is dangerous. Troops must assume the passages are booby trapped. Soldiers first close off the area and check for additional openings. Then robots go inside to look around, he said.
Israeli forces' flares light up the night sky in the northern Gaza Strip, early Saturday, July 19,
After that, the tunnels are destroyed either by special explosives or by heavy equipment. He said it can take up to 12 hours to destroy each tunnel.
"These tunnels aren't for hiding. They are intended for large attacks in Israeli communities and army bases," chief military spokesman Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz said.
Footage released by the Israeli military showed tunnels being demolished by army excavators and other equipment on the ground and by airstrikes from above.
An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires towards the Gaza Strip July 19, 2014.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Kidra said the new round of airstrikes raised the death toll from the 12-day offensive to at least 342 Palestinians, many of them civilians.
In Israel, a Gaza rocket killed a man near the southern city of Dimona and wounded four people, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, marking the second Israeli civilian casualty from the fighting. An Israeli soldier was killed after the start of the ground operation, probably from friendly fire.
Casualties could mount quickly if the military moves deeper into urban areas.
Some 50,000 Palestinians are already staying in United Nations shelters, according to UNRWA, the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians.
Early Saturday, Israeli tank fire killed at least five members of the Al Zawaydi family at their home in Beit Lahiya, including two children. In a separate incident, tank shell fire killed three members of the Hamooda family in their home, among them two children.
In Gaza City, two boys and a 12-month-old infant neighbor were killed Friday evening following the break of the Ramadan fast. On Saturday, at least two of the bodies were carried by somber relatives during a funeral procession in Gaza City.
Palestinian relatives mourn for Qasim Alwan, 4, and Imad Alwan, 6, who were killed Friday by an Israeli tank shell, during their funeral in Gaza City, Saturday, July 19, 2014.
Israel says it is going to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties and blames them on Hamas, accusing it of firing from within residential neighborhoods and using civilians as "human shields."
Palestinian children, who fled their families' houses following an Israeli ground offensive, sleep as they stay inside a classroom at a United Nations-run school in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip July 19, 2014.
The military said it has hit more than 2,350 targets in Gaza, including 1,100 rocket launchers, during the 12 days of fighting. It said that some 70 "terrorists" were and another 13 brought to Israel for questioning.
Gaza militants have fired more than 1,600 rockets at Israeli cities since July 8.
The military said also it had received intelligence reports that Palestinians had strapped explosives to animals and intended to send them toward soldiers. A donkey laden with explosives approached soldiers later on and blew up causing no injuries, it said.
An Egyptian truce proposal was rejected by Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007 and has demanded the lifting of an Israeli and Egyptian blockade as part of any cease-fire agreement.
Israel's ground attack came after it became increasingly exasperated with rocket fire from Gaza, especially after Hamas rejected an Egyptian cease-fire plan earlier in the week.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri on Saturday repeated a call for the two sides to adopt the cease-fire, saying it is the only offer on the table, despite efforts from Hamas backers Turkey and Qatar to broker a deal.
"This initiative still presents the chance for the two sides to cease fire, ending the bloodshed," he said. "It meets the needs of both sides. We will continue to propose it. We hope both sides accept it."
In a fresh effort to broker a truce, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was to leave Saturday for the Middle East to help mediate the Gaza conflict. A cease-fire is "indispensable" for urgently needed humanitarian efforts to succeed, the undersecretary-general for political affairs Jeffrey Feltman told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Friday.
Israeli officials have said the offensive could last up to two weeks or possibly longer.
"The Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip will not surrender to the enemy and will not raise the white flag," Ziad Nakhala, a leader in the Islamic Jihad militant group, told a Palestinian radio station.
Hamas has survived Israeli offensives in the past, including a major three-week ground operation in January 2009 and another weeklong air offensive in 2012. It now controls an arsenal of thousands of rockets, including long-range projectiles, and has built a system of underground bunkers.
But Hamas is weaker than it was during the previous two offensives, with little international or even regional support from its main allies, Turkey and Qatar. Protests against the offensive took place Friday in Turkey, Jordan and the West Bank. Protests against Israel also continued in European countries.
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Deitch reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Aron Heller in Tel Aviv, Yousur Alhlou in Jerusalem, Sarah El Deeb in Cairo and Lefteris Pitarakis in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, contributed to this report.
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A pro-Russia fighter holds up a toy found among the debris at the crash site of MH17.
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(Reuters) - Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western powers.
As militants kept international monitors away from wreckage and scores of bodies festered for a third day, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the rebels to cooperate and insisted that a U.N.-mandated investigation must not leap to conclusions. Moscow denies involvement and has pointed a finger at Kiev's military.
The Dutch government, whose citizens made up more than half the 298 aboard MH17 from Amsterdam, said it was "furious" at the manhandling of corpses strewn for miles over open country and asked Ukraine's president for help to bring "our people" home.
After U.S. President Barack Obama said the loss of the Kuala Lumpur-bound flight showed it was time to end the conflict, Germany called it Moscow's last chance to cooperate.
European powers seemed to swing behind Washington's belief Russia's separatist allies were to blame. That might speed new trade sanctions on Moscow, without waiting for definitive proof.
"He has one last chance to show he means to help," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after a telephone call to Putin.
Britain, which lost 10 citizens, said Prime Minister David Cameron agreed with Rutte that the European Union, warier than Washington of hurting its own economy by imposing sanctions, should reconsider its approach due to evidence of rebel guilt. On Friday, Cameron had urged caution before an investigation.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the most powerful figure in the EU, spoke to Putin on Saturday, urging his cooperation. Merkel's foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, told Bild am Sonntag newspaper: "Moscow may have a last chance now to show that it really is seriously interested in a solution."
"Now is the moment for everyone to stop and think to themselves what might happen if we don't stop the escalation."
Germany, reliant like other EU states on Russian energy and more engaged in Russian trade than the United States, has been reluctant to escalate a confrontation with Moscow that has revived memories of the Cold War. But with military action not seen as an option, economic leverage is a vital instrument.
RUSSIAN RETALIATION
Russia said on Saturday it was retaliating against sanctions imposed by the United States last week, before the air disaster, by barring entry to unnamed Americans and warned of a "boomerang effect" on U.S. business. But Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry did agree in a phone call to try and get both sides in Ukraine to reach a consensus on peace.
Driving home its assertion that the Boeing 777 was hit by a Russian SA-11 radar-guided missile, Ukraine's Western-backed government said it had "compelling evidence" the battery was not just brought in from Russia but manned by three Russian citizens who had now taken the truck-mounted system back over the border.
The prime minister, denying Russian suggestions that Kiev's forces had fired a missile, said only a "very professional" crew could have brought down the speeding jetliner from 33,000 feet - not "drunken gorillas" among the ill-trained insurgents who want the Russian-speaking east to be annexed by Moscow.
DNR gunmen stop @OSCE on road to site of flight #MH17. Finally let them out, "but only on the road, not the field." pic.twitter.com/n2XM4MZkZ4
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) July 19, 2014Fighting flared in eastern Ukraine on Saturday. The government said it was pressing its offensive in the east.
Observers from Europe's OSCE security agency visited part of the crash site near the village of Hrabove for a second day on Saturday and again found their access hampered by armed men from the forces of the self-declared People's Republic of Donetsk. An OSCE official said, however, they saw more than on Friday.
At one point, a Reuters correspondent heard a senior rebel tell the OSCE delegation they could not approach the wreckage and would simply be informed in due course of an investigation conducted by the separatists. However, fighters later let them visit an area where one of the airliner's two engines lay.
"The terrorists, with the help of Russia, are trying to destroy evidence of international crimes," the Ukrainian government said in a statement. "The terrorists have taken 38 bodies to the morgue in Donetsk," it said, accusing people with "strong Russian accents" of threatening to conduct autopsies.
Ukraine's prime minister said armed men barred government experts from collecting evidence.
RETRIEVING REMAINS
In the regional capital Donetsk, the prime minister of the separatist authorities told a news conference that Kiev was holding up the arrival of international experts whose mission to probe the cause - and potentially blame - for the disaster was authorized on Friday by the United Nations Security Council.
And contrary to earlier statements by the rebels, Alexander Borodai said they had not found the black box flight recorders. He said rebels were avoiding disturbing the area.
"There's a grandmother. A body landed right in her bed. She says 'please take this body away'. But we cannot tamper with the site," Borodai said. "Bodies of innocent people are lying out in the heat. We reserve the right, if the delay continues ... to begin the process of taking away the bodies. We ask the Russian Federation to help us with this problem and send their experts."
Midday temperatures are around 30 Celsius (85 Fahrenheit).
At Hrabove, one armed man from the separatist forces told Reuters that bodies had already been taken away in trucks. Another said that immediately after the crash people had looted valuables. But fighters and local people say they have been doing their best to collect evidence and preserve human remains.
As the stench of death began to pervade the area after Thursday's crash, correspondents watched rescue workers carry bodies across the fields and gather remains in black sacks.
Meeting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev, Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said: "We are already shocked by the news we got today of bodies being dragged around, of the site not being treated properly ... People are angry, furious."
The Ukrainian security council in Kiev said staff of the emergencies ministry had found 186 bodies and had checked some 18 sq.km (7 square miles) of the scattered 25-sq.km crash site. But the workers were not free to conduct a normal investigation.
"The fighters have let the Emergencies Ministry workers in there but they are not allowing them to take anything from the area," security council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said. "The fighters are taking away all that has been found."
Malaysia, whose national airline has been battered by its second major disaster this year, said it was "inhumane" to bar access to the site around the village of Hrabove, near the city Donetsk, but said Russia was doing its "level best" to help.
A team of Malaysian experts flew in to Kiev on Saturday and experts from Interpol are due there on Sunday to help with the identification of victims. Dutch, U.S. and a host of other specialists are being lined up to help in the investigation.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai said before flying to Kiev it would be "inhumane" not to have access and said Moscow was helping: "They are trying their level best to assist Malaysia to ensure we have a safe site," Liow said.
As tales of personal grief unfolded, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak revealed his own family was involved - his 83-year-old step-grandmother had been aboard the flight.
The United Nations said 80 children were aboard. The deadliest attack on a commercial airliner, follows the disappearance of flight MH370 in March with 239 passengers.
The company has defended its use of the route, 1,000 feet above the area close by Ukraine due to the hostilities. Some airlines had been avoiding the area, though many others were flying over. The issue has raised questions of liability for the deaths and damage and about international supervisors' roles.
The scale of the disaster could prove a turning point for international pressure to resolve the crisis in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds since pro-Western protests toppled the Moscow-backed president in Kiev in February and Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula a month later.
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(Additional reporting by Pavel Polityuk and Elizabeth Piper in Kiev, Peter Graff in Donetsk and Siva Govindasamy and Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah in Kuala Lumpur; Writing by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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New artist Peryon J. Kee releases his new single entitled "Activist."
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Santos and Triggawanna dropped the audio for "Frieday" a couple of weeks ago, now here's the official music video. Clip directed by Danny Mr. Designer. Download it for free here https://soundcloud.com/wrtsceo/santos-ft-triggawanna-smokin-weed.
Be on the lookout for Santos' forthcoming mixtape entiled Human Torch 3: The Legacy of Wildfire, coming soon.
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Twista gives DJ Smallz the green light to premiere "No Friend of Me" featuring Chief Keef and Stunt Taylor. This is Twista's forthcoming album entitled Dark Horse, which will be released on August 12. Pre-order it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-dark-horse-deluxe-version/id891148023?ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
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Back like he never left, Arlis Michaels gets assistance from Oakland's own Mistah Fab exercising their lyrical ability on a smooth jazz type of track letting haters know who does it better.
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After cancelling all of her press for the day (she demanded money for each of her appearances in the press), Joseline Hernandez of "Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta" hosted a twerking contest at Wall Street nightclub in Hauppague, NY, presented by Big Money Getter Entertainment.
The only videographer she allowed into the club was acclaimed director Amseshem Foluke', owner of The Pow King Productions, and his assistant Metchet Sanford. Together, the duo captured every element of the (very ratchet) contest, including some legendary faces made by Stevie J, and some quotes from Joseline that are sure to be equal-opportunity offensive.
Oh...and as for her purported black eye from the reunion? Noticeably absent.
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Lil Debbie is preparing to release her California Sweetheart Pt. 2 EP on August 5th. Check out the visuals for "Work the Middle."
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Troy Ave revisits his New York City album to release an official music video for "I'm Dat Nigga" featuring Brick Star Boyz member Young Lito. Track produced by Reefa and Myles William for ATM. Directed by The Thirdman.
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Childish Major links up with Curtis Williams for his latest song entitled "Childish," which was also produced by Major.
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The Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. T.I. beef isn't going away anytime soon.
At a recent press conference to hype his rematch with Marcos Maidana, the boxing champion admitted for the first time publicly that his relationship with Tip's wife, Tiny, was more than friendship.
While at the podium fielding questions about Maidana someone yelled out T.I.'s name.
"Fuck the bitch," Floyd said. "I was fucking his bitch. Money May gonna make it do what it do baby."
Those comments will only make a bad situation worse. T.I. and Floyd came to blows In May at a Fatburger restaurant in Las Vegas over Tiny.
Money May later released a statement saying that he would never bed a married woman. He added that he and Tiny were just longtime friends.
I’m not sleeping with that girl [Tiny] and I told that man before. But if I was, talk to her about that, don’t talk to me about that. But I’m not going to be disrespectful because I’m not going to sleep with a married woman. Now if she was divorced…I still wouldn’t do that because I’m cool with her and we have a real cool and cordial relationship and sometimes sex can mess a good friendship up. And basically, I don’t want to fuck up a good relationship that I have with a person. So whatever I said, ‘stole your bitch…take your bitch’ or whatever, I apologize to Tiny and all of her children and T.I.’s children for saying that. I want to apologize to the children and Tiny and Tiny’s family for saying what I said.
We'll have to wait and see how this goes, but it's getting ugly. Watch Floyd's comments in the video below starting at the 2:17 mark.
Shouts to Elie Seckbach and ESNEWS for the video footage
**UPDATE** July 20
Floyd Mayweather Jr. reached out to TMZ in an attempt to clarify his comments. He told the website that he actually said "he thinks I was f*cking his bitch."
"I've never been with Tiny sexually," Floyd added. "I respect her situation and I think she's a good person. I would never disrespect a marriage."
Tiny told TMZ that she never cheated on her husband, T.I., with Floyd and believes the boxing champion made those comments because she ignored him on the red carpet of the BET Awards last month.
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16orBetter episode 21 features Nu Jerusalem, Propane, Obas, Supreme & Phanellz
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Thisis50 & Young Jack Thriller recently spoke with Sophia Body for an exclusive interview!
Sophia Body speaks on her title, Tony Yayo helping out her modeling career, her type, upcoming TV Show, Jeans line & much more!
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Battle rapper Arsonal Da Rebel went at Cassidy on his "0 to 100" freestyle. He basically dared Cass to step back into the battle rap arena and was pretty disrespectful while doing it.
Cassidy doesn't exactly go deep in his bag in his reply, but he lets Ars no that ain't nothing sweet on "Any & Errrbody" featuring Fred Money. Produced by Erik Ark Vegas.
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Omarion is currently sitting in jail being held on $20,000 bail.
The former B2K lead singer was driving in San Fernando Valley Friday, July 18, when he was pulled over for running a stop sign. Police ran his information through the system and discovered he had a warrant out for his arrest for skipping court on a previous traffic ticket, according to TMZ.
Omarion, real name, Omari Ishmael Grandberry, was arrested and hauled off to a nearby precinct.
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ROZSYPNE, Ukraine (Associated Press) — World leaders called for an immediate cease-fire in eastern Ukraine on Friday and demanded speedy access for international investigators to the crash site of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner shot down over the country's battlefields.
The strong words came amid the contrasting images of emergency workers and off-duty coal miners fanning out across picturesque sunflower fields searching for charred pieces of wreckage from the Boeing 777.
The attack Thursday afternoon killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations — including vacationers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia.
Early Friday, Malaysia Airlines identified 10 countries that lost citizens on flight MH17.
President Barack Obama called for an immediate cease-fire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia separatists. He also called for a credible investigation.
"The eyes of the world are on eastern Ukraine, and we are going to make sure that the truth is out," Obama said at the White House.
U.S. intelligence authorities said a surface-to-air missile brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it traveled from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told the U.N. Security Council in New York on Friday the missile was likely fired from a rebel-held area near the Russian border.
The Ukrainian government in Kiev, the separatist pro-Russia rebels they are fighting and the Russia government that Ukraine accuses of supporting the rebels all denied shooting the plane down. Moscow also denies backing the rebels.
After holding an emergency session, the U.N. Security Council called for "a full, thorough and independent international investigation" into the downing of the plane.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said both sides in the Ukrainian conflict should put down their weapons and hold peace talks. On Thursday, Putin blamed Ukraine for the crash, saying Kiev was responsible for the unrest in its Russian-speaking eastern regions. But he didn't accuse Ukraine of shooting the plane down and didn't address the key question of whether Russia gave the rebels such a powerful missile.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry released a video purporting to show a truck carrying the Buk missile launcher it said was used to fire on the plane with one of its four missiles apparently missing. The ministry said the footage was filmed by a police surveillance squad at dawn Friday as the truck was heading to the city of Krasnodon toward the Russian border.
There was no way to independently verify the video.
Ukraine's state aviation service closed the airspace Friday over two border regions gripped by separatist fighting — Donetsk and Luhansk — and Russian airlines suspended all flights over Ukraine.
Access to the sprawling crash site remained difficult and dangerous. The road into it from Donetsk, the largest city in the region, was marked by five rebel checkpoints, with document checks at each.
A commission of around 30 people, mostly officials representing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, traveled to the crash site Friday afternoon in the first such visit there by an international delegation.
"No black boxes have been found ... we hope that experts will track them down and create a picture of what has happened," Donetsk separatist leader Aleksandr Borodai said.
Yet earlier Friday, an aide to the military leader of Borodai's group said authorities had recovered eight out of 12 recording devices. Since planes usually have two black boxes — one for recording flight data and the other for recording cockpit voices — it was not clear what the aide was referring to. It was possible he was referring to a variety of computer systems.
The crash site was spread out over fields between two villages in eastern Ukraine — Rozsypne and Hrabove. In the distance, the thud of Grad missile launchers being fired could be heard Friday morning.
In the sunflower fields around Rozsypne, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border, lines of men disappeared into thick, tall growth that reached over their heads. One fainted after finding a body. Another body was covered in a coat.
About 70 off-duty coal miners joined the search, their faces still sooty from work.
In Hrabove, several miles away, large numbers of sticks, some made from tree branches, were affixed with red or white rags to mark spots where body parts were found.
Andrei Purgin, a leader of the pro-Russian separatists, told The Associated Press that after consultations with international diplomats and a former Ukrainian president, a decision has been reached for bodies to be taken to the government-controlled Black Sea city of Mariupol.
Smashed watches and mobile phones, charred boarding passes and passports were among the debris.
Large chunks of the plane, which bore the airline's red, white and blue markings, lay strewn over one field. The cockpit and one turbine lay a kilometer (a half-mile) apart, and the tail landed 10 kilometers (six miles) away. One rebel militiaman in Rozsypne told the AP the plane's fuselage showed signs of being struck by a projectile.
The area has seen heavy fighting between government troops and pro-Russia separatists, and rebels had bragged about shooting down two Ukrainian military jets Wednesday in the region.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed Kiev's accusations that Moscow could be behind the attack.
"Regarding those claims from Kiev that we allegedly did it ourselves: I have not heard a truthful statement from Kiev for months," he told the Rossiya 24 television channel.
He also said Russia has no intention of getting its hands on the plane's black boxes and added they should be given to international aviation organizations.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk described the attack as an "international crime" whose perpetrators should be punished in an international tribunal.
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lay insisted again Friday that the airline's path was an internationally approved route and denied accusations the airline was trying to save fuel and money by taking a more direct flight path across Ukraine.
Aviation authorities in several countries, including the FAA in the United States, had issued previous warnings not to fly over parts of Ukraine after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March. Within hours of the crash Thursday, several airlines announced they were avoiding parts of Ukrainian airspace.
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Peter Leonard reported from Kiev. Others who contributed included Yuras Karmanau in Kiev; Julie Pace in Washington; Mstyslav Chernov in Rozsypne, Ukraine; Nataliya Vasilyeva and Laura Mills in Moscow; Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands; Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations; and Eileen Ng and Satish Cheney in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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C Red The Prince "Loyalty And Respect" Hosted By @DjMLK @DjTestarosa
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01. C Red - Loyalty & Respect [Prod. By C Red]
02. C Red - Amazing [Prod. By Jim Harris]
03. C Red - Fire Marshall Bill [Prod. By D Crews]
04. C Red - Alright (Feat. Jae Rich) [Prod. By C Red]
05. C Red - White Boy Biz (Feat. ClayCo & Vance Flint) [Prod. By Kip Hilson]
06. C Red - Loyalty & Respect Skit (Chico Speaks)
07. C Red - It's About To Go Down (Feat. ClayCo & Vance Vexed) [Prod. By D Crews]
08. C Red - Watching You (Feat. Lil Chuckee & ClayCo) [Prod. By D Crews]
09. C Red - Buck Enough (Feat. Zae Money) [Prod. By D Crews]
10. C Red - Screwed (Feat. ClayCo & Flint) [Prod. By Kip Hilson]
11. C Red - Getting Dough (Feat. Lil Mal) [Prod. By D Crews]
12. C Red - Time To Get It (Feat. ClayCo & Vance Vexed) [Prod. By Kip Hilson]
13. C Red - Life (Feat. Vance Vexed) [Prod. By C Red]
14. C Red - Major (Feat. Naurd Gutta) [Prod. By C Red]
15. C Red - Loyalty & Respect Skit (Outro) (Chico Speaks)
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Here's Teddy P's new music video for "Monotone." His new album entitled Stoicville: The Phoenix will be dropping soon.
T-Pain tells us what he thinks people are saying to him during his shows, which only makes him go harder on stage.
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Gucci Mane, Young Dolph and PeeWee Longway teamed up to form the group Felix Brothers. Here's a stream of their debut album. Features include OJ Da Juiceman, Strap Da Fool and more. You can purchase it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/felix-brothers/id900216980
Felix Brothers Tracklist:
01.El'Choppo (Intro)
02.Felix Brothers
03.South Memphis To Zone 6
04.Contaminated
05.Dead For Real
06.Lean Man
07.Pour Me Up
08.Better Not
09.Still Beatin
10.At Da Jugg House
11.Choppo Vs Felix Brothers
12.Like The Gambinos
13.Sopranos
14.Cheech & Chong
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