Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin responded Tuesday to the fatal terrorist attack in Vienna a day earlier, with the Israeli leader calling for the world to defeat the “savage” Islamist terrorism.
Austrian authorities have confirmed that the gunman fatally shot dead after committing a terror attack in Vienna was an Islamic State sympathiser, with local media naming him as Kujtim F., a convicted terrorist who had been released early from prison.
Police in the Austrian capital of Vienna launched a manhunt Monday evening after a group of “professional” and “heavily armed” gunmen struck across the city.
A young Muslim man burst into Saint Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna on Saturday morning shouting “Islamic slogans” until he was subdued and arrested by police.
The Prime Minister of Armenia has warned the European Union on Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasing aggression, saying that it “should expect Turkey near Vienna” in a “not so distant future”.
Vienna — “It might sound strange but when I came here for the first time… I fell in love with this place,” says Jennifer Kickert, spokeswoman for an association striving to clean up a long-neglected Jewish cemetery in Vienna’s north-eastern suburbs.
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer has introduced a “Vienna Declaration” to combat mass illegal migration.
BERLIN (AP) – Police in Austria say they have detained a 47-year-old Russian national after a 43-year-old compatriot was shot dead near Vienna late Saturday in what Austrian media report is being considered a possible political assassination.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has accused Turkey of sowing strife in Europe after members of the far-right Turkish Grey Wolves clashed with Kurdish leftists and their Antifa allies in Vienna.
Police arrested a 33-year-old Austrian man after he tried to gain access to the country’s parliament while armed with a machete, claiming he only wanted to talk.
VIENNA – A member of the Rothschild family is suing the city of Vienna, accusing it of “perpetuating” Nazi laws by plundering the Jewish banking family’s foundation, media reports said Saturday.
CNN is in defiance of a federal judge’s order to respond to a defamation lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) over a completely false story the network printed about the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) ranking member late last year.
Austrian police said on Monday they have foiled a terrorist plot to attack crowded targets in Austria, Germany, France, and Luxembourg during the holiday season, including the Christmas market at St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna.
A Virginia middle school teacher was arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday after he was accused of having sex with a minor.
Austrian firefighters say they have found a body at a residential building in Vienna following a suspected gas explosion.
BERLIN (AP) — Austrian authorities have arrested an Iraqi man suspected of carrying out unsuccessful attacks on trains in neighbouring Germany last year and sympathizing with the Islamic State group, officials in the two countries said Wednesday.
A study released by the Austrian Integration Fund has revealed that as many as 20 per cent of Austria’s residents were born overseas and more than half of them come from non-EU countries.
Austria’s defence minister has said his nation will not be involved in the developing pan-European army, a pet project of leading globalists like Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron, saying the continent should concentrate on cooperation, not integration.
A number of monks have been injured, some seriously, in a brazen, broad daylight attack on a church in Vienna which the authorities are describing as a “robbery”.
A 17-year-old Afghan migrant has been arrested following the murder of a 16-year-old Austrian girl after he attempted to buy a forged passport and flee the country.
Polish MP Dominik Tarczyński has slammed the left-wing government of Vienna after they cancelled the erection of a statue to commemorate the Polish King who saved the city, claiming the statue might offend Turks.
Up to 100,000 Austrians with dual Turkish citizenship could be stripped of their Austrian citizenship as courts in the country look into violations of the country’s dual nationality laws.
Despite an average decline in crime across Austria, foreigners now make up nearly half of the suspects in criminal cases with the capital city of Vienna seeing foreigners account for more than half.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was in Vienna on Wednesday to seek to secure what is left of the Iran nuclear deal.
Turkey has claimed to have sent “thousands” of Islamic scholars and teachers to Europe to influence Turkish-background children to remain loyal to the near-east country, according to a letter sent to school children in Austria.
Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked Austria’s impending closure of mosques and consequent expulsion of Turkish-funded imams, saying the move is anti-Islamic while promising a response.
George Soros’s Central European University is prepared to move out of Hungary after his Open Society Foundations announced Tuesday it was also leaving the country.
An 18-year-old Syrian was granted asylum in Austria by the country’s asylum authority despite the migrant being on trial for selling hard drugs to young girls at the time of the decision.
A theater in southern Germany is proceeding with plans to open a satirical play Friday about Adolf Hitler’s youth in which some patrons will be wearing swastika armbands, despite objections and legal complaints.
AFP — The Austrian of Egyptian origin who was shot dead over the weekend after attacking a soldier with a knife outside the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Vienna had Islamist sympathies, authorities said Tuesday. Preliminary indications suggest that the 26-year-old
BERLIN (AP) – Austrian police say they have no information yet on the motives of a man who attacked a guard outside the Iranian ambassador’s residence in Vienna and was then fatally shot. Police said the guard, a 23-year-old Austrian
The 23-year-old Afghan asylum seeker who was arrested in connection with the stabbings of four people Wednesday night in Vienna has confessed to the attacks, saying he stabbed them because he was “in a bad mood”.
János Lázár’s video, which claimed migrants had made Vienna more dangerous and dirtier, was removed by social media giant Facebook after a massive backlash.
Police in Vienna have arrested an Afghan migrant after four people were stabbed in the second district of Vienna in two separate incidents, although police are not confirming the man is a suspect in both. Four people have been stabbed in two
Three Austrian plainclothes police officers were injured after they attempted to arrest two teenage Afghan asylum seekers who had offered to sell them drugs.
The Vienna police are pursuing criminal charges against three pro-Israel activists for waving an Israeli flag at a protest against the designation of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Europe’s growing Muslim population is revealing itself in surprising ways, with “Muhammed” coming in third place in most popular male baby names in Austria for 2017.
Austria’s new ban on facial coverings in public has prompted veil-wearing Muslims and their families to leave the country, reports a new documentary.
The Archbishop of Vienna has sharply criticized a new ruling by the Austrian Constitutional Court that paves the way for same-sex marriages, calling the decision a “denial of reality.”
Swiss Islamist activist Nora Illi was briefly detained by police in Vienna after she and three other women wore full-face Islamic veils in the centre of the city where wearing the garment is banned.
