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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, August 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

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

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- The White House said on Friday that the second in command of the Islamic State (IS) had been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq earlier this week.

Die Welt:

-- According to the newspaper, the European Union is considering to relieve Greece more than originally planned from the pressure of the dramatically increased numbers of refugees.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- The German Federal Statistical Office reported on Friday that 715,000 new babies were born in Germany last year, an increase of 4.8 percent on the previous year and the largest number of births since 2002. Endit