Geir Moulson

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Mountain rescuers carry cave researcher Johann Westhauser , center, out of the Riesending cave near Marktschellenberg, southern Germany, Thursday June 19, 2014. The German cave researcher has been successfully brought to the surface after suffering head injuries in an accident deep underground nearly two weeks ago. Westhauser was injured June 8 while nearly 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) underground in the Riesending cave system in the Alps near the Austrian border. (AP Photo/dpa,Nicolas Armer)

After 2 weeks, injured caver rescued in Germany

Geir Moulson · June 19, 2014 1:58 pm

File - In this Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 file photo, Michael Schumacher announces his retirement from Formula One at the end of the 2012 season during a press conference at the Suzuka Circuit venue for the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix in Suzuka, Japan. Schumacher's manager says the Formula One great is no longer in a coma and has left a French hospital where he had been receiving treatment since a skiing accident in December. Manager Sabine Kehm says in a statement Monday, June 16, 2014, that Schumacher has left the hospital in Grenoble "to continue his long phase of rehabilitation." The statement did not say where the seven-time F1 champion was taken or give any details of his condition. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, file)

Schumacher leaves French hospital, out of coma

Geir Moulson · June 16, 2014 2:12 pm

In this file picture taken Jan.21,2014, Tim Grunewald plays with one year old Carl at the army child-care of the Theodor-Kaerner-Kaserne, barracks, in Lueneburg. Germany's ambitious defense minister von der Leyen wants to equip the country's newly all-volunteer military with better childcare, more attractive barracks and Internet access, giving it a facelift as it competes with business for new recruits in a humming economy.( AP Photo/dpa/Philipp Schulze)

Germany launches drive to make military attractive

Geir Moulson · June 4, 2014 1:09 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles during the award ceremony of "startsocial Competition" at the federal chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Seven projects were awarded monetary prizes of 35,000 euros in total for their commitment to civil society. (AP Photo/dpa,Rainer Jensen)

Germany’s Merkel to meet Putin at France event

Geir Moulson · June 3, 2014 1:48 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands behind a window with reflection of flags, as she waits for the arrival of Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for talks at the chancellery in Berlin, Monday, June 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber),

Merkel seeks unity as Europe argues over EU job

Geir Moulson · June 2, 2014 2:04 pm

Ukraine's energy minister Yuri Prodan addresses a news conference as part of a meeting of representatives of the European Union, Russia and Ukraine about Ukrainian future gas supply in Berlin, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Ukraine making 1st gas payment to Russia

Geir Moulson · May 30, 2014 4:53 pm

Alexey Miller, right, CEO of the Russian energy supplier Gazprom, speaks to an unidentified delegation member during a meeting of the European Union energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger and Russia's and Ukraine's energy ministers in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

EU: Proposed solution found in Ukraine gas dispute

Geir Moulson · May 26, 2014 7:12 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, smiles as President of France Francois Hollande, center, gives an autograph to 6 years old tourist Hanna during a visit of the Baltic see island Ruegen, northern Germany, Friday, May 9, 2014. Merkel and Hollande meet for two days on the island Ruegen and in the coastal city of Stralsund. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Germany, France press Putin to help calm Ukraine

Geir Moulson · May 10, 2014 10:29 am

President Barack Obama meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, May 2, 2014. Obama and Merkel are mounting a display of trans-Atlantic unity against an assertive Russia, even as sanctions imposed by Western allies seem to be doing little to change Russian President Vladimir Putin's reasoning on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

German opposition assails gov’t over Snowden

Geir Moulson · May 2, 2014 2:35 pm

Economists predict muted German minimum wage hit

Geir Moulson · April 10, 2014 12:21 pm

German collector in deal on handling of art hoard

Geir Moulson · April 7, 2014 2:58 pm

The artwork 'Stools' by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is displayed in the atrium of the Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum at the exhibition 'Evidence' in Berlin, Wednesday, April 2, 2014. The museum said with the exhibition 'Evidence' they present the largest exhibition of Ai Weiwei . The exhibition will be open from April 3 until July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Absent Ai Weiwei stages major show in Berlin

Geir Moulson · April 2, 2014 3:11 pm