
Cancellations, Restrictions, Tightened Security Worldwide for New Year’s Eve
Terrorist threats hang especially heavy over major cities as 2015 draws to a close.

Terrorist threats hang especially heavy over major cities as 2015 draws to a close.

Samra Kesinovic was used as a sex slave by the Islamic State before being killed while trying to flee, it has been revealed.

Police in Austria said Saturday they stepped up security in Vienna and other cities after receiving a warning of possible attacks during the holiday season. “In the lead-up to Christmas, a friendly intelligence service sent a warning to numerous European capitals

Police in Vienna have notified several European cities of a possible terror threat expected between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

A fictionalised civil war in Austria with mocked-up news reports and a child being shot by militants is being shown to pupils in junior schools to children will learn to be more accepting of migrants. Parents are protesting after children

The Russian government provided the United Nations with an 18-month plan to end the Syrian civil war. Syrian opposition groups resist the plan, as it makes no mention of a transition process for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

Iran and Saudi Arabia, two states on polar opposite sides of the ongoing civil war in Syria, are set to meet face-to-face in Vienna on Friday, as part of international talks which hope to find a peaceful solution to the conflict.
Vienna (AFP) – Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) has drawn nearly even with the ruling Social Democrats (SPOe) in Vienna ahead of October 11 elections in the capital city state, according to a poll published Saturday. According to the survey,

Contents: Migrant workers in Maine being replaced by blueberry-picking machines;As expected, Austria follows Hungary in saying ‘No more migrants’

Contents: After weeks of chaos, Hungary appears to be giving in to the flood of migrants;Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán: Muslim migrants threaten Europe’s Christian identity; Austria agrees to allow migrants to pass through Austria

The New York Times published an embarrassing look at what went on behind the scenes during the long, long months of “nuclear negotiations” with Iran. Apparently, it involved a good deal of Iran shouting at the hapless U.S. team and declaring its demands non-negotiable, while Team Obama threw in one towel after another.

While President Barack Obama claimed that the deal will prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, and European Union leaders hailed a “new chapter in international relations,” Israeli leaders said that the deal will guarantee the emergence of a nuclear Iran. One Israeli opposition leader said: “We thought it was a bad deal, but it is in fact a terrible deal.” Indeed, the deal is weaker than the provisional arrangement the White House announced this past April.

Diplomats at nuclear talks in Vienna failed to reach an expected deal on Friday, as Iran balked at signing an agreement with the Western powers on “Quds Day,” an annual day of virulent protest against the U.S. and Israel that the Iranian regime stages throughout the world.

A source at the international nuclear talks in Vienna indicates that a deal with Iran is likely on Friday, probably due to a U.S. collapse on a new Iranian demand that an international arms embargo be lifted as part of the deal.

A convicted felon who went to federal prison in 2006-7 is leading a White-House backed effort to lobby Congress to pass whatever nuclear deal emerges from ongoing talks with Iran in Vienna. Robert Creamer, who served time for fraud and tax charges, and who is married to Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), is coordinating pro-Iran efforts through the liberal Ploughshares group, which held a conference call with President Barack Obama’s aides earlier this week, as reported by Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Western powers had “collapsed” to nearly every single Iranian demand so far in the nuclear talks.

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.

A Saudi Arabia-funded institute for interreligious dialogue in Vienna has ignited controversy among politicians and citizen groups alike. Austrian politicians have publicly asked how Saudi Arabia can have a dialogue center in Vienna and simultaneously persecute free speech activists in their own country.