MARKUS SCHREIBER

Bruce Springsteen performs with the E Street Band at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
AP PHOTOS: Bruce Springsteen’s Berlin concert
 
A German soldier carries a small coffin with the remains of fallen German soldiers of WWII to the grave during a funeral service at a memorial site for fallen soldiers in Halbe, Germany, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
AP PHOTOS: 80 years after World War II, Germany is still searching for its fallen soldiers
HALBE, Germany (AP) — In a forest near Berlin, the remains of 107 fallen Wehrmacht soldiers were ceremoniously interred last week.
 
A woman uses hairspray to fixe the hair on a nutcracker titled "Resolute Desk of the President," featuring a seated figure signing a "presidential proclamation," at the Steinbach-Volkskunst nutcracker factory in Marienberg, Germany, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
AP PHOTOS: Trump’s tariffs could be tough to crack for a German nutcracker maker focused on the US
Steinbach Volkskunst sells more than 90% of what it makes to the United States. It is looking at ways to lessen the impact of tariffs, but can only change so much. The U.S. initially imposed a 20% tariff on goods from the European Union, but the administration suspended that for 90 days while leavin
 
A woman uses hairspray to fixe the hair on a nutcracker titled "Resolute Desk of the President," featuring a seated figure signing a "presidential proclamation," at the Steinbach-Volkskunst nutcracker factory in Marienberg, Germany, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Trump’s tariffs could be tough to crack for a German nutcracker maker focused on the US
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to become a tough nut to crack in an unlikely place — a small company whose factory nestled deep in the hills of eastern Germany produces painstakingly hand-crafted nutcrackers that are snapped up by American collectors.
 
Janine Massnick, a woman of Germany's Slavic-speaking Sorbian ethnic minority, shows a traditional decorated Easter Egg at a Easter Market in Schleife, Germany, Sunday, April 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
These Easter eggs have been decorated by the Sorbian community for thousands of years
Members of Germany’s Sorbian community carry on the tradition of decorating Easter eggs. It’s part of the culture of the Slavic-speaking Sorbian ethnic minority.
 
Yulia Navalnaya, center, with Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, center left, and Ilya Yashin, center right, lead a demonstration under the slogan "Stop Putin! Stop the War! Freedom for Political Prisoners!" in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Putin critics lead a march in Berlin calling for democracy in Russia and an end to war in Ukraine
Prominent Russian opposition figures are leading a march of more than 1,000 people in central Berlin. They are criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine and calling for democracy in Russia.
 
Germany’s Merkel voices ‘shame’ during 1st Auschwitz visit
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced “deep shame” during her first-ever visit to the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.