Author: Geir Moulson
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Old-time plane crashes in Swiss Alps, killing 20
BERLIN — An old-time propeller plane crashed near-vertically at high speed into a Swiss mountain, killing all 20 people on board, police said Sunday. The Junkers Ju-52 plane, operated by the Swiss company Ju-Air, went down Saturday on the Piz Segnas mountain above the Alpine resort of Flims, striking the mountain’s western flank about 2,540…
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Prosecutors: German nurse may have killed over 100 patients
BERLIN — A nurse who is already serving a life sentence for two murders may have killed more than 100 patients over several years at two hospitals in northwestern Germany, prosecutors said Thursday. Investigators have completed toxicological examinations on patients who died during Niels Hoegel’s time as a nurse in hospitals in Oldenburg and Delmenhorst,…
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Man with knife attacks 8 people in Munich; suspect arrested
BERLIN — A man with a knife attacked eight people in Munich on Saturday and then fled, police said. The suspected assailant, a local German already known to police for theft and other offenses, was arrested a few hours later. No one was seriously hurt in the attack that started at around 8.30 a.m. in…
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Helmut Kohl, chancellor who reunited Germany, dies at 87
BERLIN — Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, died Friday at his home in Ludwigshafen. He was 87. “A life has ended and the person who lived it will go down in history” said German…
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Annotated version of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ a hit in Germany
Greg Smith. Photo courtesy Colorado PERA.
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Merkel is last of Obama’s key European allies still standing
BERLIN — Just a few months ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel brought together the leaders of the U.S., Britain, France and Italy to discuss the world’s crises, a moment captured in a photo of the five seated around a conference table. When she hosts a summit of 20 leading global powers in July, she will…
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World Health Organization rejects call to postpone Rio Olympics
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BERLIN — The World Health Organization says there is “no public health justification” for postponing or canceling the Rio Summer Olympics because of the Zika outbreak in Brazil. The assessment, in a statement early Saturday,…
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Germany marks 25 years since Berlin Wall’s fall
BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Sunday celebrates the 25th anniversary of the night the Berlin Wall fell, a pivotal moment in the collapse of communism and the start of the country’s emergence as the major power at the heart of Europe. A 15-kilometer (nine-mile) chain of lighted balloons along the former border will be released…
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Germany unveils memorial to post-WWII soldiers
BERLIN — Germany’s president on Tuesday inaugurated the first national memorial to soldiers killed serving in the post-World War II military, which he lauded as a solid pillar of the country’s modern democracy. President Horst Koehler acknowledged the military’s changing role as Germany has put soldiers in the line of fire in places such as…
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German leader: No rushed judgment on Afghan strike
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that the world should reserve judgment on whether civilians were killed in a German-ordered airstrike in Afghanistan, even as NATO said it believed that civilians had died in the attack. The NATO-led force announced that it believed after a preliminary review that civilians had been killed and wounded…