Sources: BBC
Three hikers are killed by a lightning strike on Mittagsspitze mountain in the Central Eastern Alps, Austria. 2025-06-15
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
Austria reports a record for the second consecutive day of 15,809 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,027,274. 2021-11-19
Austrian chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announces a full nationwide lockdown for the entire population starting on 22 November, amid a surge in new COVID-19 cases that has overwhelmed hospitals. Schallenberg also announces that COVID-19 vaccinations will become mandatory as of 1 February 2022. 2021-11-19
Austria reports a record 14,416 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 996,320. 2021-11-17
The number of new infections in Austria rises by a record of 3,614 cases, pushing the total confirmed cases to 79,770 cases. 2020-10-24
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
Voters in Austria go to the polls to elect a new President in a second round run-off between Green candidate Alexander Van der Bellen and Freedom Party of Austria candidate Norbert Hofer. Projections show that Van der Bellen has won with Hofer conceding defeat. 2016-12-4
Greece recalls its ambassador to Austria in response to Austria's hosting of a meeting with Balkan states, to which Greece was not invited, about European migrant crisis policies that would make it harder for migrants to head north across Europe. Greece's foreign ministry called the move an "unfriendly act." More than 100,000 migrants have entered the EU illegally so far in 2016, nearly all of them arriving in Greece. 2016-02-25
Three people are killed and dozens more are injured as a man drives his car into a crowd in Graz, Austria. 2015-06-20