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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, August 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

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

Die Welt:

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday will visit a refugee shelter in the German town of Heidenau where far-right extremists staged violent anti-refugee protests over the last weekend.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- The headquarters of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), German Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partner, was evacuated on Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat. SPD General Secretary Yasmin Fahimi said Tuesday that there had been a flood of threats reaching the party headquarters combined with xenophobic hate speech since German Vice-Chancellor and SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel's visit to a eastern German town hit by anti-refugee violence.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- The attempted attack by a gunman on a Thalys high-speed train last week was premeditated and well prepared, according to a French prosecutor. Prosecutors have filed formal charges against the gunman, identified as Ayoub el-Khazani. Endit