Jenny Erpenbeck in her study in Berlin last year.

Displaced Palestinians cooking as they shelter in a UNRWA-affiliated school in Deir al Balah, central Gaza, on Tuesday.

The Chinese Embassy in Berlin on Monday. The German authorities arrested four people in two days on suspicion of spying for China.

The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany in Beijing last week in a photo released by the Chinese state media.

Lithuanian police officers near the home of Leonid Volkov, a close associate of Aleksei A. Navalny who was assaulted with a hammer last month in Vilnius.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, center, and Evan Ryan, his wife, at the Group of 7 meeting on Capri in Italy. The group has grown more active and ambitious in recent years

Björn Höcke heads the far-right Alternative for Germany party in the state of Thuringia.

Outside a court in Karlsruhe, Germany, on Thursday. Federal prosecutors based in the city said one of the men had considered a U.S. military base as one of several potential targets.

Members of the Israeli military showing the remnants of an Iranian ballistic missile that fell on Israel over the weekend.

From left, Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister; Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president; and David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, at a hotel in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Tuesday.

From left, Lisa Paus, the German minister for family affairs, senior citizens and women and youth; Karl Lauterbach, the health minister; and Marco Buschmann, the justice minister, at a news conference in Berlin on Monday.

Tesla reported a decline in sales this month that caught investors off guard.

A protest against the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, in January in Rostock, Germany. It was one of many around the country.

The Pinakothek der Moderne in 2020. The museum said the worker had hung the painting when he was helping install an exhibition in the architecture section.

The author Deborah Feldman has been outspoken about German politics since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli soldiers in Gaza last month.

Jonathan Tah, a German player wearing No. 4, in a match against France last month. The team is required to assign the Nos. 4 and 14 in major tournaments.

At Benoit Merlo’s organic farm in eastern France.

Relatives of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas held pictures of Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, during his visit to Tel Aviv in October.

Dachshunds have long been a national symbol in Germany.

Striking workers added wood to a fire to stay warm during evening shifts in front of a recycling plant owned by the company SRW in Rötha, Germany, on Wednesday.

From left, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland and President Emmanuel Macron of France before their meeting in Berlin on Friday.

A protest over the Alternative for Germany party and right-wing extremism in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin in January.

A view of the Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria, from the bridge where the attacker met the victims last June.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and President Emmanuel Macron of France last year in Potsdam, west of Berlin.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaking in Dresden, Germany, on Thursday. He promised not to deploy German troops in Ukraine.

Police officers and investigators on Sunday in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, where raids were carried out.

Police officers leaving a building in Berlin on Tuesday where Daniela Klette was arrested.

President Emmanuel Macron at Élysée Palace on Monday. “The defeat of Russia is indispensable to the security and stability of Europe,” he said this week.

The building in Berlin where Daniela Klette, 65, was believed to have been living. Neighbors told the Bild tabloid that she had tutored children, walked her dog and was unfailingly polite.

Alfred Grosser in his Paris office in 2009. A French citizen since age 12, he was called “one of the architects of postwar reconciliation with Germany.”

Karl Lauterbach, Germany’s health minister, left, and Lisa Paus, the minister for family affairs, senior citizens, women and youth, at the Bundestag, Germany’s Parliament, in Berlin on Friday.

Dortmund fans brought banners to the fight against a proposed private-equity investment in Germany’s top league.

From left, Moritz Tezky, Silas Heineken and Tariq Löber putting up a poster in Grünheide, Germany. They are campaigning to allow an expansion of Tesla’s presence in the area.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, on Saturday.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Berlin, right, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine signing an agreement on security commitments and long-term support at the Chancellery in Berlin on Friday.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday will be aimed as much at European leaders as the American audience back home.

Ukrainian soldiers from the 72nd Mechanized Brigade in Vuhledar in January.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany speaking to the defense minister, Boris Pistorius, second from right, on Wednesday at the German Bundestag in Berlin.

Security screeners during a strike at an airport in Frankfurt on Thursday.

A German who is accused of running a now-defunct illegal movie streaming site transferred $2.17 billion worth of Bitcoin to the authorities.

A demonstration against the Alternative for Germany party and right-wing extremism, and for democracy, in Düsseldorf on Saturday.

Millions of people ride trains in Germany every day, and the number is growing as more travelers switch to rail amid concerns about climate change.