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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, April 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

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

Die Welt:

-- Due to criticism on employees of Deutsche Bank illegally manipulating interest rates around the globe for years, Deutsche Bank had to pay a fine of about 2.5 billion U.S. dollars to U.S. and UK authorities, who announced the agreement on Thursday.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- In the fight against human trafficking, the European Union (EU) countries are also considering to resort to military means to curb the influx of refugees across the Mediterranean.

"Today's meeting is about saving human lives," said British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday before the start of a special summit of the EU on refugee disaster in the Mediterranean.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- After two days of the German train drivers' strike, German national railway operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) decided to return to train schedule operation on this Friday. However, there could still be delays in the morning, said Deutsche Bahn. A rapprochement between German train drivers union GDL and Deutsche Bahn is not yet in sight. Endit