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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, May 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

Tagesspiegel:

-- Immediately before the crash of Egyptair airplane over the Mediterranean, there has been a smoke alarm on board the Airbus A320. The smoke had been reported from the toilet area in front of the plane, said a spokeswoman of the French Agency for Safety of Civil Aviation BEA in Paris on Saturday.

Die Welt:

-- The number of extremists in Germany has continued to increase. German federal criminal office (BKA) records currently in Germany 497 so-called "troublemakers", who are capable of launching a serious terror attack at any time due to their extremist attitudes.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concern about the situation in Turkey and defended the Refugee Convention before her visit to Turkey.

"Of course, some developments in Turkey are of deep concern to us," she said in an interview. Endit