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With the news that Austria and Germany had opened its borders, thousands of migrants began departing Hungary on foot Sunday.

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 first of thousands of migrants reached the Austrian border town of Nickelsdorf last night after the Austrian and German governments agreed to accept them. Around 1,200 people travelled across Hungary by foot and car, while many more remained at

Thousands of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, bussed to the border by a Hungarian government that gave up trying to hold them back as Europe’s asylum system buckled under pressure from the numbers reaching its frontiers. After days

The EU’s asylum policy has failed and member states should consider “individual measures” if the union fails to secure its wider border, Austria’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration has said. If it fails to, he will consider tighter border

Police in Austria have found a smuggler’s truck to the south of Vienna containing the dead bodies of migrants. Police spoke of at least 20 initial casualties but warned that number could rise. The lorry was found standing on the emergency lane

Towns in Austria which have not accepted migrants may be forced to do so under draft legislation which has been agreed by the two ruling parties and opposition Greens yesterday. The new rules could come into force in October, at

From Austria comes the report of a scene all too familiar on the southern border of the United States, cranked up to a degree that would raise the eyebrows of even the most seasoned U.S. Border Patrol veterans. 86 Middle Eastern “migrants” were stuffed into a locked, windowless truck, blasting through 95-degree heat without ventilation for over twelve hours.

Plans to tear down a refugee tent camp and replace it with a “container village” at an Austrian army barracks have provoked a local row. The Mayor of Wals-Siezenheim says the container homes suggest a permanent residential solution, as opposed

A tattoo artist is offering his services for free, as long as the recipient is willing to have his or her body permanently tagged with images associated with multiculturalism or “social justice”. Alex Smoltschnik – who runs the Pride &

VIENNA, July 28 (Reuters) – Austria is investigating Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders on suspicion of incitement of hatred at an event in Vienna he attended at the invitation of prominent Austrian far-right politician Heinz-Christian Strache. Wilders, whose party has

Civil disobedience by dissatisfied asylum seekers is costing the municipal authorities in Vienna tens of thousands of Euros as they abuse and sabotage public services to voice their feelings. A march on Monday night, organised by left-wing agitators but mostly attended by Vienna’s

A cemetery in Austria is the latest location to face a ban on something historically relevant. It’s not the Confederate flag, or even something designed by a 12-year-old. This time, it’s the Nazi symbols attached to the gravestones of some

In a sign that eurosceptic sentiment is spreading across the Continent, it has been announced that 261,159 Austrians beat the 1 July deadline to sign a petition supporting a referendum on whether Austria should leave the EU. This means the threshold of 100,000

Contents: Hungary and Austria in disagreement over migrants; Britain and France face migrant crisis in port of Calais; Palestinians to submit war crimes charges against Israel to ICC

The bodies on the streets of Graz, Austria weren’t even cold before police moved to reassure the public they had only witnessed a random act of violence by a mentally ill killer yesterday, but the attack has all the hallmarks of

VIENNA (AP) — A man drove his van into a crowd Saturday in Graz, Austria’s second largest city, killing three people and injuring 34 others, a senior official said. Police said the driver had been arrested and the downtown area

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.

In a new report, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians expressed serious “concerns” regarding the human rights situation in Austria, especially regarding Christians.

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A Turkish man who posted images to Facebook showing Adolf Hitler along with statements calling for the killing of Jews did not carry out anti-Semitic acts, because the postings in question were legitimate critiques of Israel, according to Phillip Christl, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Linz, Austria.

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The German anti-Islamist group PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) organized the largest rally in its history Monday, with official crowd size estimates at about 25,000. As the movement grows in Germany, fueled by anger at radical Islam for the deaths of 12 during last week’s massacre at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, other countries are beginning to establish their own PEGIDA branches.

An underground Nazi weapons factory which is believed to have been a secret development laboratory for nuclear weapons has been discovered in Austria. The subterranean facility was uncovered last week by an Austrian documentary maker Andreas Sulzer and his team

Tensions have been flaring in the Austrian capital over the Christmas period as disparate communities clash over religious differences, with religious icons and building vandalised, and pigs entrails being smeared over a mosque in the north of the city. The