G20/RUSSIA/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Families of those killed when a Buk missile blew Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 out of the sky above Ukraine in 2014 have called on U.S. President Donald Trump to press his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to provide answers about the downing. In a letter to Trump published Friday [11-9-18] on Twitter, relatives of about 30 of the 298 passengers and crew killed on July 17, 2014, say ‘we have a right to know what happened to our loved ones.’ The letter was posted to Twitter by Thomas Schansman, whose 18-year-old son Quinn, a dual Dutch-American citizen, was among the passengers killed. Trump and Putin will both be in Paris this weekend for commemorations of the centenary of the end of World War I, but are not expected to hold a bilateral summit. They plan to hold talks at a Group of 20 summit in Argentina at the end of the month.”
–The Associated Press, “MH17 Families Appeal to Trump to Press Putin for Information,” The New York Times online, November 9, 2018