Austria

Establishment parties in Europe suffered another defeat on Sunday as the elections for the National Council in Austria saw the populist Freedom Party come in first place for the first time in history.

The suspects in the foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna earlier this month sought to kill “tens of thousands” of fans before the CIA discovered intelligence that disrupted the planning and led to arrests, the agency’s deputy director said.

The prime suspect in bomb plot to kill Taylor Swift fans at a concert in Vienna “today or tomorrow” has been revealed.

An unidentified vigilante sawed off the head of a provocative sculpture of the Virgin Mary in the act of giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the Catholic cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz.

Police have arrested a 91-year-old Austrian auto parts billionaire from Canada on sexual assault charges, and there is more than one accuser.

Police said they laid white roses on the anniversary of Hitler’s birth and posed for photos and one gave the Nazi salute.

Initially it was feared there may have been more fatalities, but in the end four people were found to have been buried.

Austrian identitarian activist Martin Sellner has been banned from entering Germany after the city of Potsdam obtained a three-year entry ban.

A 14-year-old girl was found dead in an Afghan migrant’s apartment in Vienna this week after she was allegedly plied with narcotics and sexually abused.

Police in Vienna launched a criminal investigation after three women were found dead in a brothel, authorities said Saturday.

An Austrian sexual predator could be released early from the life sentence he received for keeping his daughter as a sex slave for decades.

Donald Trump told Breitbart News that the recent wave of populist and conservative victories, from Italy to Argentina and more, show that international populist conservatives’ movement is “stronger” than it was in 2016.

One person died and 21 people were severely injured when fire broke out at a bar in the southeastern Austrian city of Graz.

Austria previously blocked Bulgaria´s and Romania´s entry into the Schengen Area over concerns about illegal immigration.

Several suspected Islamist terrorists have been arrested in Germany and Austria over alleged plots on the Cologne Cathedral and elsewhere.

BERLIN (AP) – A 16-year-old teenager has been arrested for allegedly planning to attack a synagogue in Vienna, Austria’s top security official said Monday. The teenager, who was arrested Thursday, had announced in online chats that he intended to procure

UK and Austria signed security agreement taking in migration, terrorism, and cyber and are set to enter further talks on deportations. 

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

The Taliban are suspending consular services at two Afghan embassies, London and Vienna, over a lack of cooperation with authorities in Kabul.

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.

Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was charged with lying to parliament, the penalty for which is three years in prison.

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.

A train had its loudspeaker system hijacked to play out a speech from Adolph Hitler, including shouts of “sig heil”, a crime in Austria.

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.