Austria

The Jewish area of Vienna’s Central Cemetery was set on fire and defaced with swastikas and Hitler graffiti.

Austrian police say four people were wounded Saturday evening in a shooting on a street in the capital, Vienna.

Work started Monday on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station.

Officials said they have broken up a suspected terror cell linked to the Islamic State group that consisted of nine young men and one woman.

Austria’s leader is proposing to enshrine in the country´s constitution a right to use cash, which remains more popular than other countries.

Austrian authorities said they had foiled a possible attack on Vienna’s Pride parade by three young men who allegedly sympathized with ISIS.

Austria would be the first Western country to officially play an active military role in the Ukraine war if the President gets his way.

Vienna police have alerted of a possible “Islamist-motivated attack” on churches, citing information received by the country’s intelligence services.

The city of Vienna has finally lifted its long-standing masking requirement on public transport – and now those who still wear masks are banned from doing so, and could even face fines.

European Union leaders claim they will increase security on the bloc’s common external border after illegal arrivals topped 330,000 last year, the highest number since the 2015-16 migrant crisis.

VIENNA (AP) – Austria’s government said Thursday that it has ordered four diplomats based in Vienna, including two at Moscow’s mission to UN agencies in the city, to leave the country.

India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, the nation’s top diplomat, excoriated European countries doing business with Russia in an interview on Monday, asking why pro-Ukraine nations on the continent continued to purchase Russian fossil fuels after Moscow escalated its war with the country in February.

Even before counting Ukrainian refugees, Europe saw migrant arrivals at levels not seen since the 2015-16 crisis this year.

Migrants with a history of violence will not riot again this New Year’s Eve as they have been given integration courses, a local politician in Austria has claimed.

Three Afghan migrants have been convicted by a court for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in a case that has shocked Austria.

Hungary, Austria, and Serbia have agreed to coordinate to reduce illegal migrant flows on the Balkan route, with Serbia deploying more police along its southern border and Austria providing reinforcements.

A Syrian man faces trial in Vienna after allegedly nearly stabbing a fellow Syrian man to death because the latter was applying himself to learning German on a course they attended.

Activists attacked a famous Klimt painting with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting’s frame.

A poll has suggested as many as 83 per cent of Austrians believe that all of the country’s politicians are corrupt.

Riots broke out in several cities in Scotland, Germany, Austria and several cities and towns in France on Halloween.

Europe sees “at least a dozen” cases similar to the rape and murder of French 12-year-old Lola Daviet every year, Vlaardingerbroek said.

European leaders met Monday in Budapest to discuss the surge of new activity along the Balkan migrant route.

The leaders of Hungary, Austria and Serbia met Monday in Budapest to find solutions on how to stem the increasing number of migrants.

Czech police fired warning shots in the air before detaining the driver of a van carrying 15 migrants Thursday morning.

Spanish and Austrian police arrested two radical Islamic jihadists who are said to have fought in Syria and entered Europe illegally.

Austria’s Constitutional Court ruled it was unlawful for the government to ban unvaccinated people from hair salons and barbers.

Two members of an elite police unit were injured when the mother of an Islamist drove into them as officers were trying to arrest her son. 

Authorities in both Austria and France have finally lifted almost all remaining COVID-19 lockdown rules in place in their countries. After having used a wide variety of coercive measures to try and force individuals to get vaccinated, both France and

Three Afghan migrants accused of drugging and raping 13-year-old Leonie and leaving her to die are not to face murder charges. 

Ministers from Germany and Austria have made it clear that there is “no alternative” to ending their dependency on Russian energy and becoming energy independent as Russia shuts down pipelines. German Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck and

A 19-year-old people smuggler has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the deaths of two Syrian illegal immigrants.

Bomb threats targeted cities across Austria on Monday as the trial for an Islamic hate preacher began in Vienna.

European gas prices have risen substantially this year but one expert has predicted that costs could double or even triple by year’s end. 

The Austrian government has scrapped a law that would force residents of the country to be fully vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus.

A German-led European police taskforce claims to have arrested eight “highly dangerous” people smugglers and 127 others who operated a major migrant smuggling network that allegedly helped 10,000 enter Europe illegally. The European Union police agency Europol announced the results

The EU agreed to embargo two thirds of Russian oil immediately with the aims of reducing imports by 90 per cent at the end of the year.