MH17 TRIAL | It was like the time just stopped for some 20 minutes during the first day of the criminal trial into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on Monday, when a Dutch public prosecutor read out the names of all 298 victims who perished in the July 17, 2014, incident.

There was a heavy silence in the courtroom when the full names of the men, women and children were listed one-by-one by deputy public prosecutor Dedy Woei-A-Tsoi, as she read out the full charges against four men accused of murdering them...