Russian airliner crashes in Sinai

A Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, broke up in mid-air, a Russian official says.

Intelligence suggests a bomb may have brought down the Russian airliner over Sinai desert killing 224 people, US and UK officials say.

Malaysia's Minister of Transport Hishamuddin Hussein, center, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director general of the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation, left and Malaysia Airlines Group CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya, right, listen to questions from the media during a press conference regarding missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370, Friday, March 14, 2014 in Sepang, Malaysia.
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Emergencies Ministry members work at 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

By Anton Zverev

GRABOVO Ukraine (Reuters) – A Malaysian airliner was brought down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard and sharply raising stakes in a conflict between Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels in which Russia and the West back opposing sides.

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A Dutch UN peacekeeping helicopter crashes near Gao in northern Mali, with two people reported killed.

The UN says one of its cargo helicopters has crashed in South Sudan - unconfirmed reports say it was shot down.

A medical evacuation plane carrying seven people, including a French patient, went down off the coast of Senegal, officials said Sunday.

A Nigerian army helicopter comes down in the north-east, where the military is battling Islamist Boko Haram fighters, the second crash this week.

A Libyan jet crashes in Tobruk, near the seat of parliament, causing a huge inferno and killing a child and at least two other people, officials say.