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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, May 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

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

Die Welt:

-- The United Nations (UN) has criticized Europe for the handling of refugees. The UN welcomed the European Commission's proposed plan to relocate refugees over the EU member states, but said the plan was "quite insufficient."

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- A spokesman of the Bundestag, lower house of German parliament, said Friday that the institution had undergone a cyber attack.

Der Tagesspiegel:

-- The United States National Security Agency was spying against European interests on a larger scale than previously known, German news magazine Spiegel reported. More than half of the approximately 40,000 search terms that Germany's Foreign Intelligence Service (BND) selected at its listening station in Bad Aibling were reportedly switched to active. The BND spoke earlier of only 12,000 active selectors. Endit