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Six individuals were arrested across Europe this week for their alleged involvement in a complex human trafficking scheme that exploited the European Union’s Schengen porous borders area to smuggle illegals into the UK.

Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria was officially inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday in an effort to destroy the building’s appeal.

A Mexican national has been extradited to the United States to face charges that he produced child sexual abuse material, some of which involved a child in Texas.

Lionel Messi now has the World Cup scoring record with 17 goals in his career.

A study commissioned by the Vienna government has found that younger Muslims display stricter adherence to Islamic principles and are often more authoritarian than their predecessors.

Police in eastern Austria say a 39-year-old suspect has been arrested after rat poison turned up in some HiPP baby food jars on supermarket shelves in central Europe.

The mountaineer who left his girlfriend to die in freezing temperatures while climbing a mountain in Austria has been convicted of negligent manslaughter.

The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Austria, and Italy on Thursday joined their French counterpart in condemning U.N. “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese after she accused Israel of being a “common enemy” of humanity.

The leaders of the centrist coalition government in Vienna are reportedly set to agree to a ban on Sharia Law, with Chancellor Christian Stocker declaring that there is no room for a “caliphate” in Austria.

The national broadcaster responsible for hosting the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest announced on Wednesday that audience members will be allowed to bring “all official flags,” presumably including the Palestinian flag, and that booing will not be censored out of the live event, emboldening pro-Hamas protesters who have made the non-political event a major target.

School headscarf ban passed by the Austrian government, defying months of opposition by “Islamist influencers”.

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

GLOCK, Inc. posted an announcement to their company website noting that over 30 handgun models will be discontinued.

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)

A Syrian migrant was arrested by police after several people were injured in an axe attack on a high speed train travelling to Austria.

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.

Austria fell silent on Wednesday in memory of 10 people killed in a school shooting in Graz, which ended with the gunman taking his own life.

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.