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Memorial at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, where the Malaysian plane took off (Photo: Roman Boed)

EU under pressure to broaden Russia sanctions

The US and the UK are putting pressure on the EU to impose tougher sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Malaysia Airlines disaster.

The calls come ahead of an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Tuesday (22 July) - the first opportunity for the bloc to discuss the incident, in which hundreds of Europeans, mostly Dutch people, lost their lives.

The US and the UK have said pro-Russia rebels shot down the plane using a Russian-supplied missile.

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Memorial at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, where the Malaysian plane took off (Photo: Roman Boed)

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