Sources: BBC
Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and several others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. 2025-06-10
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announces a package of new anti-terrorism measures, including granting Austrian security services the ability to monitor private communications sent on messaging and social media apps and decrypt encrypted messages, and restricting the right to assembly of groups declared "hostile to democracy". 2024-08-13
The Philippines bans entry to flights from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Additionally, the entry of fully vaccinated foreign nationals from green-list countries that was expected to begin on December 1 is temporarily suspended. 2021-11-28
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif cancels a trip to Austria after Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz orders the Israeli flag to be raised at the Chancellery and Foreign Affairs buildings yesterday. 2021-05-15
Germany's refugee crisis coordinator Peter Altmaier says, in an interview with German magazine "Focus", that he and Austrian special minister Josef Ostermayer are working on a proposal for a common European asylum law. He added other countries such as France and The Netherlands would be approached soon. 2015-12-19
Iran is invited to attend the next round of talks over Syria's future, along with the representatives from the United States, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Britain, France, Germany, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Nations mediator for Syria, Staffan de Mistura. The next round of the "Vienna II" meeting is expected to start tomorrow and continue Friday in Vienna, Austria. 2015-10-27
Austrian police discover as many as 50 dead refugees in a truck. 2015-08-27
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
A plane containing 10 members of a Russian spy ring arrives in Vienna, Austria, from the United States. 2010-07-9