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Bulgaria and Romania partially join the Schengen Area, allowing travel by air and sea without border checks, Austria vetoed travel by land without border checks over fears that non-EU citizens could get easier access to the European Union.
2024-03-31

An unusually strong and early heat wave increases temperatures above 40 C in Spain. Seville records a temperature of 41.0 C, beating its all-time high for May, while the hottest settlement, Andújar, ties the record with 42.3 C. Several settlements in France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and western Austria beat all-time high records for the month.
2022-05-20

Austria reports 6,211 new cases in the past 24 hours, the highest single-day record since the pandemic began.
2020-11-4

Austrian MPs vote to demand a government veto on a proposed trade deal between the European Union and South American trade group Mercosur. The deal is the result of 20 years of negotiations. France and Ireland have previously threatened to also veto the deal unless Mercosur member Brazil increases efforts to fight ongoing Amazon rainforest wildfires.
2019-09-19

Austria's Constitutional Court rules that the government cannot discriminate against same-sex couples' right to marry.
2017-12-5

Iran asks Austria to secure the talks over its nuclear program following reports of cybersecurity breaches.
2015-06-13

Four people living at the same address in Savannah, Tennessee (3 men and 1 woman), believed to be involved in an area child pornography investigation and who had earlier fled a September 2013 FBI investigation (where computers and cameras were seized) are found dead of gunshot wounds (they may have been drugged) in a murder-suicide on a road in Double Springs, Winston County, Alabama.
2013-10-8

A plane containing 10 members of a Russian spy ring arrives in Vienna, Austria, from the United States.
2010-07-9

Hyksos capital Avaris is believed to have been located via radar imaging by a group of Austrian archaeologists in Tel al-Dabaa.
2010-06-21

Two motorcyclists, from Austria and New Zealand, are killed in the same Isle of Man TT race.
2010-06-11