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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, January 8, 2015 Adjust font size:

The following are major news items in leading German newspapers on Thursday.

Die Welt:

-- At least 12 people were killed and four others seriously wounded Wednesday in an armed attack on the headquarters of the Paris-based weekly Charlie Hebdo.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- The internet pages of the German government and Chancellor Angela Merkel were paralyzed Wednesday for several hours by a hacker attack.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- Driven by a rapid fall in energy prices, the euro zone inflation rate turned negative for the first time since October 2009, as the annual rate is expected to be minus 0.2 percent in December 2014. Enditem