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Austrian police captured a Hamas weapons cache smuggled and hidden for use in terrorist attacks against “Jewish” targets.

European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the corporate entity that stages the Eurovision Song Contest, announced on Monday that it would cancel an “extraordinary” meeting planned for November to vote on allowing Israel to continue participating in the contest.

If Israel is banned from competing at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest then host Austria will simply drop the event and walk away.

VIENNA (AP) – Police in Austria said a man was fatally shot and a woman seriously wounded on Sunday morning by an assailant who took his own life. The shooting happened in the town of Traiskirchen, 32 kilometers (20 miles)

An Austrian state government has introduced a new approach towards asylum seekers, requiring those of working age who receive state assistance to perform community service and reducing benefits for those who refuse to work.

The Austrian government is pushing more gun control this week after the myriad gun controls which already exist in the country failed to prevent Tuesday’s school shooting.

Former student who killed nine at a school in Austria planned attack in detail but appears to have shot victims at random.

Nine people died in a school shooting in Austria that occurred despite gun control measures including licensing and registration requirements.

Several people have died, including the suspected attacker, with many more injured at a high school in the Austrian city of Graz.

A court in Vienna on Monday acquitted former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his government, reversing a verdict from last year in which Kurz was given a suspended prison sentence.

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest winner called for Israel to be excluded from next year’s competition in an interview published Thursday.

The moderators of the Reddit community dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest shut down the page entirely for 12 hours after the Grand Final in the early morning hours of Sunday due to “hate speech and strong emotional reactions.”

Austrian singer JJ won the 69th Eurovision Song Contest Saturday with “Wasted Love,” a song that combines operatic, multi-octave vocals with a techno twist.

The time has come: After a typically turbulent month of gimmicks, weird social media videos, and more fondue than anyone’s doctor would recommend, the Eurovision Song Contest will hold its Grand Final on Saturday.

A Bulgarian man who was the ringleader of a Russian spy ring in the U.K. was sentenced Monday to more than 10 years in prison.

In Paris, the bells of the recently restored Notre Dame rung out and football matches across Italy are cancelled in mourning. 

A Syrian allegedly stabbed six people in the Austrian town of Villach in a suspected Islamist terror attack that left a 14-year-old boy dead.

Herbert Kickl and his prospective coalition partners said they have reached an agreement to bring down the budget deficit.

Herbert Kickl said he aspires to “govern Austria honestly” as he prepared for talks on a potential coalition with conservatives.

Talks on forming a new three-party government in Austria collapsed Friday as the smallest of the prospective partners pulled the plug.

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya claimed on Sunday that 7,621 Syrian refugees “returned voluntarily” from Turkey between December 9-13.

Some Euro states making calculation it is cheaper to make a a single cash payment to go home than keep the guests on welfare indefinitely. 

In the wake of the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, Germany and Austria have suspended all asylum applications from the war-torn country until further notice.

Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom stopped supplies to Austria early Saturday, according to the Vienna-based utility OMV after it said it would stop payments for the gas following an arbitration award.

Establishment parties in Europe suffered another defeat on Sunday as the elections for the National Council in Austria saw the populist Freedom Party come in first place for the first time in history.

Security forces carried out raids against 72 alleged Islamic extremists this week ahead of the 23th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency’s deputy director said.

The prime suspect in bomb plot to kill Taylor Swift fans at a concert in Vienna “today or tomorrow” has been revealed.

An unidentified vigilante sawed off the head of a provocative sculpture of the Virgin Mary in the act of giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the Catholic cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz.

Team USA Football continued its futility at the U20 World Championships on Sunday, falling to Austria 32-25 in the bronze medal game.

Police have arrested a 91-year-old Austrian auto parts billionaire from Canada on sexual assault charges, and there is more than one accuser.

Police said they laid white roses on the anniversary of Hitler’s birth and posed for photos and one gave the Nazi salute.

Initially it was feared there may have been more fatalities, but in the end four people were found to have been buried.

The Ukrainian government is reportedly considering an end to its “International Sponsors of War” blacklist, which lists major companies that are passively funding the Russian invasion by continuing to do business in Russia, because China and France strongly object to the naming and shaming of their corporations.

Austrian identitarian activist Martin Sellner has been banned from entering Germany after the city of Potsdam obtained a three-year entry ban.

A 14-year-old girl was found dead in an Afghan migrant’s apartment in Vienna this week after she was allegedly plied with narcotics and sexually abused.