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An Afghan migrant attacked a woman at an asylum centre in Austria because she was reading a bible. The attack took place in the town on Timelkam in the state of Upper Austria. The attacker was a 22-year-old migrant from

Vienna’s Cardinal Schönborn has made headlines after speaking out about the migrant crisis in a special Christmas discussion programme. Speaking in discussion with Protestant Bishop Michael Bünker on a faith issues roundup of 2016 on Austrian television, Cardinal Schönborn — a central European aristocrat

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has praised the victories of the populist Five Star Movement in the Italian referendum and in the election of Donald Trump in the U.S. claiming it is just the beginning.

Austrian police will hand out 6,000 pocket rape alarms on New Year’s Eve to help fight mass sex attacks such as those perpetrated by migrants in neighbouring Germany a year ago.

After Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz made good on his promise to veto European Union membership talks for Turkey, the country has vowed to retaliate.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union will seek to hold a summit meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the first half of next year to discuss the testy relations between the two, the 28-nation bloc’s president said Thursday.

The Austrian Court of Auditors has slammed the government’s deportation policy and released figures that show almost 40,000 migrants went into hiding to avoid deportation from 2010 to 2014.

Austria’s increasingly hard-line Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has made it known that unless Turkey reforms on issues of freedom and human rights, Austria will block any European Union membership negotiations. The Foreign Minister announced his intentions to block Turkish membership talks

In a checklist on “responsible” reporting on migrants, Austria’s Press Council instructs journalists to omit any information that could “stir up prejudices”.

A spokeswoman for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra says the famed ensemble plans to return a valuable French Neo-Impressionist painting looted by the Nazis to relatives of its original Jewish owner.

The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has failed in its bid to win the presidency following a shock pivot towards the EU by candidate Norbert Hofer.

Freedom Party of Austria candidate Norbert Hofer has conceded defeat in his bid to become the next president of Austria after early exit polls showed his opponent held a significant lead. 1845 CET — Hofer will fight again While Freedom

Polls opened this morning for the presidential election re-run in Austria and a constitutional referendum in Italy, both of which are being seen as significant opportunities for Europe’s anti-establishment insurgent parties, with right-wing populists enjoying a good chance to prevail

A far-left demonstration against Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer was judged a failure after fewer protesters turned up than journalists and police.

The two candidates for Austria’s presidency held a feisty final TV debate Thursday, three days before the vote, clashing over issues ranging from the EU to Donald Trump to spying.

Austrian populist Norbert Hofer has said he would back a referendum on his country’s European Union membership if the political bloc becomes more centralised, or if Turkey joins. In an interview with the BBC, the Freedom Party candidate for President

Austria has suffered a sharp uptick in the number of criminal complaints made against migrants over the last year, latest figures from the interior ministry show.

The population of Austria is scheduled to grow by over one per cent because of the mass migration of asylum seekers – the highest rate of growth seen in the country since the 1990’s.

After raids on Salafist organizations in Germany, the Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called for a ban on the distribution of the Islamic holy book. The Salafist organization “The True Religion” were the subjects of a nationwide crackdown in

VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s interior ministry says that of the 287 Islamic radicals identified in the country in the past few years, 40 percent arrived as migrants looking for asylum.

VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian state prosecutor says his office is preparing multiple murder and terrorism-related charges against a Syrian man who reportedly says he killed badly wounded members of the Syrian army with bursts from his submachine gun. Prosecutor

Contents: EU’s expected scathing report on Turkey may scuttle refugee deal; Austria says EU must prepare for collapse of Turkey migrant deal; Hungary’s Viktor Orbán defeated in attempt to ban refugee quotas

Austria’s foreign minister said Monday the EU should change its stance on Turkey following the recent crackdown and stop the flow of billions of euros in aid if Ankara fails to stick to its migrants deal with the bloc.

A woman was left with damage to her cervical spine after she and her husband’s Halloween stroll with their children was interrupted by a savage attack by asylum seekers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has slammed the Austrian legal system after claiming that the infamous “sexual emergency” migrant pool rapist was to be acquitted of molesting a young boy.

Former FBI agent and counter-terrorism expert John Guandolo, founder of UnderstandingTheThreat.com, joined Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Wednesday to talk about the cultural impact of mass immigration from Middle Eastern conflict zones into Europe.

An editor of Austria’s largest paper, Kronen Zeitung, is to be tried in an Austrian court for hate speech over a commentary he wrote about the migrant crisis last year.

A respected economist has said that it is in Austria’s best interest to leave the European Union after Brexit due to the growing influence of poorer nations as a result of the loss of UK membership. Economics professor Hans-Werner Sinn is

A 15-year-old girl has died in hospital a week after she was found in a stairwell. Police are questioning two Syrians in connection with her death.

VIENNA, Austria — A Turkish Muslim with known terror connections reportedly attempted to recreate last year’s car attack in Graz (pictured above) in an action that occurred just hours after a court found the Bosnian perpetrator guilty of those killings.

The wave of newcomers who entered Austria during the migrant crisis will cause social benefits spending to soar by 35 per cent, a report has revealed.

(Reuters) – Altering the European Union’s principal of free movement of labour in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the bloc could start a problematic domino effect, Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling said on Thursday. “You cannot have

A woman from Morocco was caught at customs in an Austrian airport trying to smuggle in the entrails of her husband claiming that she wanted them examined for signs of poisoning.

Despite having been described as a Catholic with mental health issues, the Bosnian defendant in a Nice-style high-speed ram-raid attack that killed four in the Austrian city Graz has admitted to being a Muslim in court. Alen Rizvanović went on

An illegal Algerian immigrant accused of beating a woman unconscious in an attempted rape has told a court the reason he is in Austria is to “f*** the women”.

The streets of Dhaka in Bangladesh have been turned into literal rivers of blood and 79 sheep lay brutally butchered in Austria as Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha by mass slaughtering animals.