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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, April 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

Der Tagesspiegel:

-- Several hundred refugees, who started from Egypt and wanted to land in Italy, were feared drowned in the Mediterranean.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- European Parliament President Martin Schulz has called the right-wing populist party AfD as a "shame for Germany" after senior AFD officials marked Islam as incompatible with the German basic law.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- British Finance Minister George Osborne has warned against economic consequences of an exit from the European Union (EU), expecting a 6-percent reduction in the country's gross domestic product by 2030 compared with the situation as EU member state. Endit