KRUEN, Germany (Reuters) - Joking that he wanted to buy a pair of lederhosen leather shorts, U.S. President Barack Obama drank beer and mixed with Bavarians in a light-hearted start to his trip to Germany, before turning to more serious talks on the conflict in Ukraine.
Introduced by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama spoke warmly to a crowd of men in feather-plumed green hats and women in corseted "dirndl" dresses in the picture-postcard village of Kruen, at the foot of snow-speckled Alpine mountains.
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