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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, August 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

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

Die Welt:

-- The Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) re-opened on Monday after a five-week shutdown with heavy losses. The composite index fell nearly 23 percent immediately after the opening of the session, recording the biggest daily loss in the stock market's history.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- The number of people with immigration backgrounds living in Germany reached 16.4 million in 2014, nearly one fifth of the country's total population, official data showed on Monday.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined two of her ministers in casting doubts on a treason probe into two Internet journalists.

A deputy spokesperson of Merkel said Monday that the chancellor gave her "full support" to German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, who voiced doubts on Friday as to whether two reporters at the center of a federal investigation had committed treason by publishing sensitive documents from Germany's domestic intelligence agency. Endit