Geir Moulson

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Germany renews push for Russia-Ukraine talks

Geir Moulson · April 1, 2014 10:44 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, talks to Chinese President Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony of various contracts between Germany and China at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)

China’s Xi presides over business deals in Germany

Geir Moulson · March 28, 2014 6:26 pm

Ukraine spotlights Germany’s nuclear power switch

Geir Moulson · March 27, 2014 1:29 pm

German business optimism slips amid Ukraine crisis

Geir Moulson · March 25, 2014 7:12 am

Uli Hoeness, president of German soccer club Bayern Munich, waits at the regional court in Munich, southern Germany Thursday March 13, 2014. Hoeness has been sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison on Thursday in a tax evasion case. The 62-year-old Hoeness was charged with dodging 3.5 million euros (US $4.85 million) in taxes, but when his trial opened Monday he admitted avoiding 15 million euros more. Then it came out through an examination of documents he provided to investigators shortly before the trial that he owed 27.2 million euros in total - a number Hoeness did not dispute. (AP Photo/Christof Stache,Pool)

Hoeness accepts conviction, quits his Bayern job

Geir Moulson · March 14, 2014 11:34 am

Uli Hoeness, president of German soccer club Bayern Munich, waits at the regional court in Munich, southern Germany Thursday March 13, 2014. Hoeness has been sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison on Thursday in a tax evasion case. The 62-year-old Hoeness was charged with dodging 3.5 million euros (US $4.85 million) in taxes, but when his trial opened Monday he admitted avoiding 15 million euros more. Then it came out through an examination of documents he provided to investigators shortly before the trial that he owed 27.2 million euros in total - a number Hoeness did not dispute. (AP Photo/Christof Stache,Pool)

Hoeness accepts conviction, quits his Bayern job

Geir Moulson · March 14, 2014 11:23 am

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier speaks during a joint news conference with Secretary of State John Kerry, after a private meeting, Thursday Feb. 27, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Germany: Putin accepts Merkel contact group idea

Geir Moulson · March 2, 2014 9:03 pm

Former German President Christian Wulff smiles as he arrives for his trial at a regional court in Hannover, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Germany's former president, Christian Wulff, has been acquitted over corruption allegations that prompted his resignation two years ago. Wulff quit in February 2012 following allegations he received a favorable loan and hotel stays from friends when he was governor of the state of Lower Saxony before becoming president in 2010. (AP Photo/Julian Stratenschulte, Pool)

German ex-president acquitted in corruption trial

Geir Moulson · February 27, 2014 12:04 pm

Director Diao Yinan holds aloft the Golden Bear for Best Film for the movie Black Coal, Thin Ice, during the award ceremony at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Axel Schmidt)

Diao Yinan’s ‘Black Coal, Thin Ice’ wins in Berlin

Geir Moulson · February 15, 2014 9:14 pm

FILE - In this July 24, 2010 file picture people flee during a mass panic at a techno festival in Duisburg, Germany. German prosecutors say they have indicted 10 people on charges including involuntary manslaughter over a mass panic at the Love Parade techno music festival nearly four years ago that resulted in 21 deaths. Duisburg prosecutor Horst Bien said Wednesday Feb. 12, 2014 that four employees of the event's organizers and six city workers have been indicted. They face charges of involuntary manslaughter and bodily harm, punishable with up to five years jail time. (AP Photo/dpa,Erik Wiffers,File)

Germany: 10 charged in deaths at 2010 Love Parade

Geir Moulson · February 12, 2014 11:07 am

Swiss bank UBS beats forecasts and shares surge

Geir Moulson · February 4, 2014 9:10 am

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2014 file photo German Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen, left, and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier talk at the beginning of a cabinet meeting at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. After years in the diplomatic shadows, Germany looks keen to shed its image as a foreign-policy lightweight and assume a more vigorous role in shaping European policies in global hotspots from central Africa to Syria. New Foreign Minister Steinmeier has declared that Europe "cannot leave France alone" in Africa. He and von der Leyen are preparing to reinforce Germany's military role in Mali and help France at least logistically in Central African Republic. (AP Photo/dpa, Kay Nietfeld, File)

German foreign policy perks up under new gov’t

Geir Moulson · January 29, 2014 11:40 am