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(NANCY VAN VALKENBURG, Standard-Examiner) German teacher Jeff Jackson explains a learning game to his students and to students visiting from Germany.

German exchange students share Utah impressions

Last updated Monday, April 9, 2012 - 10:38pm

OGDEN — For visiting German student Velat Senol, the “American moment” he will remember most came not in class at Bonneville High School, but at a spring break basketball game he attended with members of his host family.

“All the people stood up for the national anthem,” said Sernol, 19, a native of Aachen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

“The black people, the whites, the Chinese, the people of different origins — they all stand up because they are all Americans,” said Sernol, explaining, in so many words, that Germany was less of a melting pot.

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Golden Spike Event Center’s HOF Germanfest. Pictured is the Salzburger Echo Alp Horns performance group from last year’s fest.

Germanfest still a 'go' Friday, Saturday

Michael McFall Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 6:58am

OGDEN -- Though Winterfest is canceled, the Golden Spike Event Center wants to remind everyone that Germanfest will go on as planned this weekend.

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(MICHAEL SOHN/The Associated Press) German Chancellor and chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats, CDU, Angela Merkel, smiles during a news conference after the party’s weekly executive committee meeting in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Leaders of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition vowed Monday to stick together following a state election wipeout for the troubled government’s junior partner, but tensions over the eurozone debt crisis persisted.

Stocks slide as Germany cools hope for debt deal

David K. Randall The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 8:38am

NEW YORK — Stocks opened the week lower Monday after the German government played down hopes that a solution to Europe’s debt crisis was imminent.

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(THANASSIS STAVRAKIS/The Associated Press) European Union’s flag flies as the temple of Parthenon atop of the Acropolis hill is seen, background, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011. The leaders of Greece, France and Germany will seek ways to contain the spiraling debt crisis and prevent it from further roiling global financial markets in a teleconference on Wednesday evening.

Top EU official seeks closer policy union

Don Melvin The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 7:47am

BRUSSELS — A senior EU official called for closer political and financial unification in Europe, as fractures emerged Wednesday among leaders on how to solve Greece’s debt crisis.

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(MARKUS SCHREIBER/The Associated Press) Germany’s tabloid Bild Zeitung has covered their publishers building with a giant reprint of their front page from April 20, 2005 when Pope Benedict XVI was elected and the headline ‘We Are Pope’ in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. The 45 x 64 meters poster will welcome the pope to his Germany visit from Thursday Sept. 22 until Sunday 25, 2011.

Pope visiting homeland with mixed views on church

Melissa Eddy The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 9:48am

BERLIN — When Benedict XVI arrives in Berlin this week, he will be greeted in his homeland by a Lutheran chancellor, a gay mayor and a divorced, remarried Roman Catholic president.

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Euro coins are photographed in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. Mounting fears over the possibility of a Greek debt default and signs of division within Europe's policymaking circles over how to deal with the crippling crisis combined Monday to send bank stocks sharply lower. Senior German politicians have suggested publicly in recent days that an orderly bankruptcy of Greece may be part of a solution to the country's problems. The notion, which has been a taboo so far in Europe's handling of the crisis, has spawned uncertainty in financial markets. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Greece, Europe struggle to contain debt crisis

Nicholas Paphitis The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 9:27am

ATHENS, Greece — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday sought to calm market fears that Greece is heading for a chaotic default on its debts as Europe struggles to contain a crippling financial crisis.

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Franco-German efforts fail to satisfy markets

Colleen Barry The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 7:04am

MILAN — Global stocks fell Wednesday in a downbeat appraisal of a Franco-German summit that failed to persuade investors that a convincing fix to the eurozone's spiraling debt crisis was imminent.