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A 14-year-old boy is killed and five other people are injured in a mass stabbing on a street in Villach, Carinthia, Austria. A 23-year-old man, an Islamic State member, is arrested.
2025-02-15

Record rainfall strikes regions of the Austrian capital of Vienna with most of the city's average total summer rainfall falling in just one hour, causing significant flooding and damage throughout the city.
2024-08-18

The Austrian government announces that it will require protective face masks and COVID-19 passes for users of ski lifts this winter in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as the country will allow foreign skiers for the first time in two years.
2021-09-20

Austria announces that they will phase out the Oxford-AstraZeneca from its vaccination programme because of delivery problems and wariness among the population following reports of the vaccine's rare side-effects.
2021-05-18

Austria reports 1,747 new infections in the past 24 hours, a new one-day record for the country since the pandemic began.
2020-10-17

Secretary-General of the European Commission Martin Selmayr is appointed as EC representative in Austria from November 1 on.
2019-07-24

The southern German state of Bavaria threatens to take the Federal German government to court if it fails to take immediate steps to limit the flow of migrants to Germany. Over 200,000 migrants are estimated to have entered Germany since the beginning of September, the vast majority over the Austrian border into Bavaria.
2015-10-9

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

Raffaele Sollecito is arrested in Italy near the Austrian border after again being found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher.
2014-01-31

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