Category: Austria

VIENNA: On Wednesday, three men were found guilty again at the Vienna High Court in connection with the terrorist attack in Vienna. They were not only accused for the quadruple murder, with conviction rest judi cata. They were also accused to be the members of the terrorist organisation ‘IS’. This verdict was announced by the […]

VIENNA: A painting by symbolist icon Gustav Klimt that reappeared after nearly a century will be sold at auction in Vienna on Wednesday (today) despite questions surrounding its provenance. “Bildnis Fraeulein Lieser” (Portrait of Miss Lieser) was commissioned by a wealthy Jewish industrialist’s family and painted by Klimt in 1917 shortly before he died. The […]

In the months-long debate on the reunification of Syrian children and women and the associated imbalance to them – almost all families go to Vienna – Job Office (AMS) boss Johannes Kopf proposed a “social welfare condition”. As reported by “profil” (online), the federal states could conclude an agreement. That only the federal state in […]

VIENNA, MARCH 30: As we previously reported, several pro-Israel forces in Austria have filed criminal charges against Michael Pröbsting, the International Secretary of the RCIT. After an initial police interview took place, the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office of Vienna has now filed a criminal complaint and initiated legal proceedings. The trial against Michael will take place […]

VIENNA: Austria has declared two diplomats from the Russian embassy personae non grata for actions “incompatible with their diplomatic status,” ordering them to leave the country within a week, Austria’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. The move brings to 11 the number of Russian diplomats Austria has expelled since 2020 in four separate rounds. It […]

VIENNA: About 2,000 Syrian migrants marched in Vienna at the 13th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. It was an extraordinary lively demonstration with people alternating chanting and singing against the dictatorship of Assad. T he demonstration was led by Abdulhkeem Alshater from the association “Free Syrian Community of Austria”. As the pictures show, demonstrators also […]

Vienna, known as the European capital of social housing, has long been hailed as the poster child for affordable housing initiatives. But could this tradition be on its way out? More than half of Vienna’s 1.9 million residents live in some form of subsidised housing. Vienna’s reputation as a beacon of social housing excellence is […]

VIENNA: A quarterly meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog’s main policy-making body began on Monday with Western powers again choosing not to seriously confront Iran over its failure to cooperate with the agency on a range of issues, diplomats said. It is more than a year since the International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation Board of […]

By Michael Pröbsting A little less than 1,000 people demonstrated in Vienna against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The march was organized by the Palestinian Community of Austria and Palestine Solidarity Austria. There were several speakers from BDS, Handala, Dar al Janub and the Palestinian community. Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the RCIT, was also invited […]

VIENNA: Austrian authorities were on Saturday investigating the killings of five women in the capital Vienna within a single day, sowing panic in the city. The dead included three women found brutally stabbed to death in a brothel. The bodies of three young women were found with fatal knife wounds in a brothel in Vienna’s […]