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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, April 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

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

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has guaranteed that his country would repay a loan of 450 million euros (488.58 million U.S. dollars) to the International Monetary Fund on time, which becomes due on Thursday.

Der Tagesspiegel:

-- Lufthansa has rejected the suspicion that it held back information about the co-pilot of the crashed Airbus A320 operated by Lufthansa's budget airliner Germanwings. German Federal Aviation Authority (LBA) told media Sunday that Lufthansa's Medical Service had not informed it about a "previous episode of severe depression" of the co-pilot.

Die Welt

-- The call for political consequences is loud after the arson attack on a refugee center located in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Reiner Haseloff, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, warned against viewing the attack as an individual case. Enditem