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The insolvency of the Austrian Signa Holding leads to the insolvency of the German sporting goods retailer SportScheck.
2023-11-30

Floods and landslides occur in southern Austria, with water being pumped out of a dam in the Viktring district of Klagenfurt, Carinthia, after concerns are raised over its stability.
2023-08-5

At least four people are injured, one of them seriously, when an avalanche hits the ski resort Zürs-Lech in Vorarlberg, Austria. Emergency services rescue all of the ten people who had been buried alive.
2022-12-25

Austria begins administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tozinameran to its citizens. An 84-year-old woman becomes the first Austrian to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at the Medical University of Vienna.
2020-12-27

Austria expels a Russian diplomat following a report accusing the envoy of being involved in economic espionage after an Austrian who works in a technology company confessed that he carried out espionage for years on behalf of the Russian, who was his intelligence handler.
2020-08-24

Austria's left-wing Green Party agrees to form a coalition with the ruling right-wing People's Party. This will be the first time the Green Party is part of a ruling government in the country.
2020-01-1

United Nations peacekeepers from Austria start withdrawing from the Golan Heights.
2013-06-12

The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each.
2012-01-13

Police in Austria have arrested an 80-year-old man for allegedly imprisoning and sexually abusing his two daughters over a period of 40 years.
2011-08-25

Survivors of child sexual abuse carried out by priests react with fury after Pope Benedict XVI's claims that pedophilia wasn't considered an "absolute evil" as recently as the 1970s and that society considers child pornography "normal".
2010-12-21