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Major news items in leading German newspapers

Xinhua, December 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

Die Welt

-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged faster repatriation of failed asylum seekers from Tunisia after Anis Amri, a Tunisian suspected of launching the Christmas market attack in Berlin, was shot to death in Italy's Milan.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

-- In the wake of the Christmas market attack in Berlin which killed 12 people and injured many others, German President Joachim Gauck said people should not deepen the society's trenches, nor distrust certain social groups or blame politicians

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

-- Germany's banking and financial service company Deutsche Bank has agreed to a 7.2 billion U.S. dollars settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over its controversial sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities between 2005 and 2007. Endit