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Three women are killed during a mass stabbing at a brothel in Vienna, Austria. A 27-year-old male suspect is arrested.
2024-02-23

One person is killed and 21 others are injured in a fire at a bar in Graz, Austria, that was hosting a New Year's party.
2024-01-1

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 reports a record 17,006 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,378,747.
2022-01-12

The Robert Koch Institute removes dozens of countries, including the United States, Canada, Austria, and Lebanon, from its travel risk list due to low COVID-19 infection rates. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas later announces that most of the countries still on the list will be removed on July 1.
2021-06-11

Five Christian monks are tied up and then left injured, one of them seriously, after a robbery at a church in Vienna, Austria.
2018-12-27

An Austrian court grants a United States request to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash. U.S. officials accuse Firtash of being involved in a scandal where he allegedly paid US$18.5 million in bribes for a permit to mine titanium in India, something Firtash denies.
2017-02-21

Austria plans to deploy soldiers on its border with Italy to stem an expected increase in migrants trying to get to northern Europe, according to Austrian Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil. "As the EU's external borders are not yet effectively protected, Austria will soon ramp up strict border controls. That means massive border controls on the Brenner Pass, and with soldiers," Doskozil told German daily newspaper "Die Welt".
2016-04-2

Representatives from about 20 countries meet in Vienna, Austria, seeking a political solution to Syria's four-year civil war that has killed more than 250,000 people, including dozens more today. For the first time Iran is at the table, where diplomats seek peace through a ceasefire plan followed by a transitional government.
2015-10-30

The body count from a van found on an Austrian highway carrying migrants yesterday rises to at least 71. Three people are arrested in Hungary in relation to their deaths.
2015-08-28