Category: Austria

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 […]

Former Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) has been found guilty in the false statement trial and sentenced to eight months’ conditional imprisonment! His former head of cabinet Bernhard Bonelli received a conditional prison sentence of six months for the same offence. The defence intends to appeal. The judgements are therefore not legally binding. There were […]

BRUSSELS: Iran continues to enrich uranium well beyond the needs for commercial nuclear use despite U.N. pressure to stop it, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday, adding he wanted to visit Tehran next month for the first time in a year to end the “drifting apart.” Speaking to Reuters after he briefed EU foreign […]

Following the discovery of three dead bodies with gunshot wounds in the town of Bad Vöslau on Saturday afternoon, the dead bodies are identified. According to Stefan Pfandler, head of the Lower Austrian State Office of Criminal Investigation, the owner of the flat and two of his friends are killed. Interrogations of relatives and the […]

BBc reports: Josef Fritzl, the Austrian sex offender who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, could be moved from a high-security prison, local media reports. Fritzl, now 88, was jailed for life in 2009 in a case that shocked the world. Austrian public broadcaster ORF reports […]

Marlene Engelhorn has been fighting for years for a more equitable tax system in her country. A Citizens’ Council will be formed in Austria to decide on how to distribute the money.A heiress in Austria will set up an assembly for citizens to give away the 25 million euro fortune she inherited.Marlene Engelhorn, a 31-year-old […]

A Tajik man being held in connection with an alleged terrorist plot targeting Cologne Cathedral remains in custody after two weeks as a result of a European arrest warrant issued by Austria, police said on January 7. Deportation proceedings are under way relating to the 30-year-old Tajik national, who was arrested after police searched a […]