Plans to tear down a refugee tent camp and replace it with a “container village” at an Austrian army barracks have provoked a local row. The Mayor of Wals-Siezenheim says the container homes suggest a permanent residential solution, as opposed
A tattoo artist is offering his services for free, as long as the recipient is willing to have his or her body permanently tagged with images associated with multiculturalism or “social justice”. Alex Smoltschnik – who runs the Pride &
VIENNA, July 28 (Reuters) – Austria is investigating Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on suspicion of incitement of hatred at an event in Vienna he attended at the invitation of prominent Austrian far-right politician Heinz-Christian Strache. Wilders, whose party has
Civil disobedience by dissatisfied asylum seekers is costing the municipal authorities in Vienna tens of thousands of Euros as they abuse and sabotage public services to voice their feelings. A march on Monday night, organised by left-wing agitators but mostly attended by Vienna’s
A cemetery in Austria is the latest location to face a ban on something historically relevant. It’s not the Confederate flag, or even something designed by a 12-year-old. This time, it’s the Nazi symbols attached to the gravestones of some
In a sign that eurosceptic sentiment is spreading across the Continent, it has been announced that 261,159 Austrians beat the 1 July deadline to sign a petition supporting a referendum on whether Austria should leave the EU. This means the threshold of 100,000
Contents: Hungary and Austria in disagreement over migrants; Britain and France face migrant crisis in port of Calais; Palestinians to submit war crimes charges against Israel to ICC
The bodies on the streets of Graz, Austria weren’t even cold before police moved to reassure the public they had only witnessed a random act of violence by a mentally ill killer yesterday, but the attack has all the hallmarks of
VIENNA (AP) — A man drove his van into a crowd Saturday in Graz, Austria’s second largest city, killing three people and injuring 34 others, a senior official said. Police said the driver had been arrested and the downtown area
As Australia considers stronger measures to keep ISIS recruiters away from young people, and the United States deals with collegiate jihadis who used student-loan money to finance their attempted journey to Syria, Austrian courts just sentenced a fourteen-year-old boy to eight months in prison on terrorism charges.
In a new report, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians expressed serious “concerns” regarding the human rights situation in Austria, especially regarding Christians.
Londoner takes amazing picture of weasel on flying woodpecker’s back; Failure of Austrian bank portends major new round of euro crisis; Iran Revolutionary Guards commander leads Iraq’s attack on Tikrit
Arab countries moving Yemen ambassadors from Sanaa to Aden; Yemen’s banks deteriorate as the economy collapses; US CPI continues in deflation, as Europe offers negative interest bonds
A Turkish man who posted images to Facebook showing Adolf Hitler along with statements calling for the killing of Jews did not carry out anti-Semitic acts, because the postings in question were legitimate critiques of Israel, according to Phillip Christl, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Linz, Austria.
ISIS-linked terrorists kill dozens in Egypt’s northern Sinai; Russia looks to Greece as an ally against EU sanctions; Greece forces compromise in planned new EU sanctions against Russia
The German anti-Islamist group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) organized the largest rally in its history Monday, with official crowd size estimates at about 25,000. As the movement grows in Germany, fueled by anger at radical Islam for the deaths of 12 during last week’s massacre at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, other countries are beginning to establish their own PEGIDA branches.
An underground Nazi weapons factory which is believed to have been a secret development laboratory for nuclear weapons has been discovered in Austria. The subterranean facility was uncovered last week by an Austrian documentary maker Andreas Sulzer and his team
Tensions have been flaring in the Austrian capital over the Christmas period as disparate communities clash over religious differences, with religious icons and building vandalised, and pigs entrails being smeared over a mosque in the north of the city. The
