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Topic: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17

The site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

Ukrainian Emergency workers carry a stretcher with a victim's body in a bag as pro-Russian fighters stand in guard at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Rebels in eastern Ukraine took control Sunday of the bodies recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, and the U.S. and European leaders demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin make sure rebels give international investigators full access to the crash site. ((AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka))

Colin Brazier (Sky News)

Outrage -- and apology

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Secretary of State John Kerry (Reuters/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Fire engines arrive at the crash site of a passenger plane near the village of Hrabove, Ukraine, as the sun sets Thursday, July 17, 2014. Ukraine said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane. ((AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky))

Piers Morgan (Reuters/Andrew Burton/Photo collage by Salon)

The media blew it today

Charlie Gasparino and Simon Constable (screenshot)

An armed pro-Russian separatist stands at a site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014. (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

Ukraine: Rebels downed plane

Peter Leonard, MSTYSLAV CHERNOV

Geraldo Rivera (Fox News)

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