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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, May 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

Sueddeutsche Zeitung:

-- The number of burglaries in Germany rose by almost ten percent last year, according to the police crime statistics, which was presented on Monday in Berlin.

Die Welt:

-- Alexander Van der Bellen is new president of Austria. After counting all the postal votes, the Green-backed candidate came to 50.3 percent, Norbert Hofer of the far-right Freedom party to 49.7 percent, as Austrian Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka announced.

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:

-- German President Joachim Gauck criticized the public debate of the present and also the past in a speech he delivered at an event on Constitution Day on Monday in Berlin. Endit