Malaysia Airlines

The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on Jan. 17, without any trace being found of the plane that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, the three countries involved in the search said. 

The mystery surrounding the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 may have been resolved. After a two-year criminal probe, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has compliled an interim report which indicates that flight MH17 that crashed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014 was shot down by a Russian Buk missile.

Australian and Malaysian officials were moving to retrieve and examine suspected aircraft wreckage found on the east African coast to quickly determine whether it came from missing flight MH370, Malaysia's transport minister said March 3.

Suspected aircraft debris has been found on the coast of Mozambique, and Malaysia's transport minister said March 2 there was a "high possibility" it came from a Boeing 777, the same model as missing flight MH370.

German companies doing business in Russia have suffered collateral damage from Moscow's sanctions against Turkey, a business group said on Dec. 18.

The impact of sanctions on those companies has been "considerable," said the president of the German-Russian chamber of commerce, Rainer Seele.

"Two-thirds of them have been hit," he said.

EU leaders will debate sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict at a summit this week and are expected to extend them for six months, foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Dec. 14.

A partial reconstruction of a Malaysia Airlines jet made of wreckage found strewn across eastern Ukraine told the graphic story on Oct. 13 of its violent last moments after being hit by a surface-to-air missile.

The aircraft wing fragment found on Reunion Island last week belongs to the missing MH370 plane, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed on Wednesday.

Malaysian aviation experts were to meet their French counterparts and judges on August 3 to coordinate the investigation into missing flight MH370, days after the discovery of a washed-up plane part offered fresh hopes of solving the mystery.

Authorities hunting for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 said on July 31 they were "increasingly confident" that wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island was from the ill-fated jet, raising hopes of solving one of aviation's great mysteries.