UKRAINE

Pro-Russian rebels have taken their spoils and exploited the identities of the victims on Facebook. Dutch PM: "This is utterly disgusting.”

Gunshots and artillery fire echoed through the streets of Donetsk on Monday, which is about 40 miles from the MH17 crash site.

Four days after MH17 was shot down in Ukraine, President Obama spoke harshly of Russia and President Vladimir Putin's role in the crisis.

Vladimir Putin has no soul, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker published online on Monday.

U.S. stocks fell on Monday, following the sharpest moves in indexes in the past three months during the two previous sessions, as developments in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip continue to garner investor focus.

The payout won't count against the final compensation awarded to the families or any legal claims arising from the incident.

Flight MH17 is said to have been downed by a surface-to-air missile Thursday, killing all 298 people aboard the Boeing aircraft.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Monday, reportedly denied claims of any tampering at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.

The first international investigators reached rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine on Monday.

It was unclear whether Russia would block the resolution.

Before the MH17 crash, a flight over Crimea as Russians and Ukrainians fought a war turned into a recreation of the old days of the Soviet Union.

International teams of emergency workers are currently at the MH17 crash site.

The Security Council might also call on states in the region to cooperate with an international investigation.

"If President Putin does not change his approach on Ukraine, then Europe and the West must fundamentally change our approach to Russia."

A Ukrainian air traffic controller asked the Air India pilots to try to contact MH17 after it stopped responding to calls.

The Ukrainian government says terrorists with Russia's support are trying to destroy evidence that blew apart MH17 and killed 298 people.

Ukrainian officials reportedly knew rebels could shoot down planes that flew higher than even MH17.

Nineteen-year-old student Quinn Lucas Schansman was en route to be with his family for a vacation in Bali.

A special phone line has also been established to aid victims' families.

Pro-Russia separatists are controlling access to the Malaysia Airlines crash site.

The changes have been made by an Internet user within VGTRK, a Russian state-run TV and radio network.