BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s foreign minister says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking his country in a “false and dangerous direction” away from the prerequisites needed for European Union membership.
A 42-year-old Syrian man has been accused of sexually molesting a 10-year-old girl at a swimming pool in Vienna after the child complained the man had grabbed her inappropriately.
VIENNA (AP) — Austrians were making bacon thousands of years ago. And a researcher says they were probably the first in Europe to do it on an industrial scale.
Austria is sending 70 soldiers to secure its border with Italy at the Brenner Pass, as Bulgaria urges the European Union to defend its frontiers with “force of arms”. Austria’s government believes that between 700 and 1,000 migrants are infiltrating
A new survey of Muslim migrants in Austria by the Danube University of Krems shows a distinct difference between typical Austrian values and those of incomers from places like Somalia and Chechnya, who hold far more religious views on society.
An Iraqi Christian refugee has warned lawmakers that Islamic asylum seekers want to take over Austrian society and without legal intervention, they could succeed in two decades.
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s interior minister says police and soldiers are increasing controls on the country’s eastern and southern borders in response to what he says are increased numbers of migrants entering illegally.
An Islamic theologian at the University of Vienna has conducted a study of radical Islamists proving that many have an extensive knowledge of Islam despite mainstream claims that radical Islamists have little understanding of their own religion.
VIENNA (AP) — An Austrian court has found 12 men guilty of cruelty to animals for causing 79 sheep unnecessary suffering while slaughtering them.
There is a growing trend in Austria of middle aged or older women enticing young male asylum seekers with favours and money for sexual gratification and making the young migrant men dependent on them.
A journalist from Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung has been suspended after she attempted to prevent the deportation of a Chechen family and attacked a police officer by biting them in the leg. The journalist, 51-year-old Ines Scholz has been suspended from her
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s chancellor says the European Union could “never, ever” digest the economic impact of Turkey joining, underlining his country’s hard line against membership.
A swimming pool in Austria has had to put up signs warning male migrants not to grope women or enter their changing room, in an effort to prevent sexual assaults from taking place. The signs have been discovered posted in
Lampedusa mayor Salvatore Martello likened Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz to a “neo-Nazi” after Kurz suggested that migrants should be kept on Italian islands rather than allowed to move north.
A middle aged woman had to be hospitalised in Vienna following a brutal beating in broad daylight by a veiled Somali asylum seeker offended by her pet dogs.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim expressed anger at the United States and European nations on Friday for refusing to allow events commemorating the one-year anniversary of the failed coup attempt against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Salzburg has banned pork in city-run kindergartens in what local officials have defended saying it meets the needs of Muslim children.
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s interior minister says that a probe of the computer and social network activities of a man accused of killing an elderly married couple show that he was a radicalized Muslim with links to the Islamic State
Italy summoned Austria’s ambassador Tuesday after Vienna threatened to send troops to the border to stop migrants entering, as the number crossing the Mediterranean topped 100,000 this year.
A Tunisian migrant arrested for the brutal double murder of a couple in their eighties was driven to kill by hatred for the populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), police have announced.
VIENNA (AP) – Austria’s highest court has ruled the government was within its rights to seize the house where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 after its owner refused to sell it. The Constitutional Court ruled Friday that
Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the anti-mass migration Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has called for Austria to move its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem echoing U.S. President Donald Trump.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The trial of 11 men indicted in the case of 71 migrants who died in the back of a refrigerated truck in 2015 started in Hungary on Wednesday.
Almost 50 per cent of newly-arrived young Austrian Muslim migrants hold anti-Semitic views, a new study published by the University of Teacher Education in Vienna reveals.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany and Austria have voiced sharp criticism of the latest U.S. sanctions against Moscow because they could affect European businesses involved in piping Russian natural gas to Europe.
Left wing extremist offences have risen considerably in the last year according to Austrian officials who say that Islamic terror is still the most pressing danger.
Austria has seen a 53 per cent decrease in the number of migrants applying for asylum over the past year after strengthening border controls.
VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police say they have charged nine men for violating anti-Nazi laws when they yelled a slogan associated with Adolf Hitler. In a statement, police said Monday that eight Austrians and one German were charged for chanting
VIENNA (AFP) – New Austrian legislation came into force Friday that will ban the full-face Islamic veil in public places from October 1.
Dutch prosecutors have announced they will not be pursuing charges against firebrand Dutch politician Geert Wilders for a speech he made in Austria in 2015.
BERLIN (AP) – German police have arrested a Romanian truck driver suspected of raping and killing a woman in southwestern Germany last year and another woman in Austria in 2014. Police and prosecutors said the 40-year-old man was arrested on
Dutch prosecutors are investigating populist firebrand politician Geert Wilders over an anti-Islamisation speech he made in Austria in 2015, for potential charges of incitement. Two years ago, Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders was invited by the anti-mass migration
An Austrian far-right group has leaked documents stating an undercover army intelligence agent who defaced a mosque in Graz with a pig’s head was really meant to infiltrate the hipster-right Identitarian youth movement.
A 25-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been sentenced to two years in prison for sexually molesting 14 women over a four month period.
Austrian defence ministry terror expert Brigadier Johann Luif believes the future of terror attacks could involve drones exploiting gaps in current security practices.
New video footage of Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence pole dancing and crawling around on a strip club stage has emerged after the actress took to her Facebook page last week to defend her dance at the birthday party outing.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Austrian authorities say they are checking a list of about 100,000 citizens for evidence that some of them may be illegally holding a Turkish passport. Double citizenship is forbidden in most cases in Austria. Those found illegally
Austria has passed into law a ban on wearing full-face Islamic veils, such as the burqa and the niqab, in public. Violators face fines when the legislation comes into effect in October.
Following the surprise resignation of former Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, the Austrian coalition government has called an early national election this Autumn.
Facebook is appealing an order to impose Austria’s social media laws against hate speech on the platform worldwide.
