Blackout in Vienna – customers waved through without paying

According to the Newspaper ” Heute”: Power outage in several districts of Vienna, especially Favoriten.In the heat there was no more air conditioning, traffic lights and garage doors remained closed. There were power cuts in several districts of Vienna on Monday evening. The disruption mainly affected Vienna-Favoriten, where the blackout stretched from Inzersdorfer Straße to […]

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Austrian police detain 53 protesters trying to disrupt march by far-right extremists

Police said Sunday that they detained more than 50 people as they clashed with protesters trying to disrupt a march by hundreds of right-wing extremists in the Austrian capital. The demonstrations Saturday came as Austria’s political parties gear up for September parliamentary elections that are expected to see the far-right make significant gains. Anti-fascist groups […]

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Austria to hold parliamentary election on Sept. 29, with far-right gaining traction

VIENNA: Austria´s government, nearing the end of its five-year term, announced Wednesday the Alpine country´s next parliamentary election will be held on Sept. 29. This comes in the wake of a narrow win by the far-right Freedom Party over Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s conservative Austrian People´s Party in last week´s European Parliament election which saw hard-right […]

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