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The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports significant increases (as much as 1200%) in reported antisemitic incidents in countries such as Austria, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium since the Israel–Hamas war began.
2024-07-11

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

Eight people in Austria and two others in Switzerland are killed by a series of avalanches.
2023-02-5

Austria reports a record 15,145 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,011,465.
2021-11-18

Austria suspends vaccinations using the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine as a precaution while investigating the death of a person who received it.
2021-03-7

Austria tightens its border controls with all neighbouring countries in order to avoid non-essential travel due to the pandemic.
2021-02-7

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

Two connected stabbings occurred in Vienna, Austria: three people were seriously injured outside a Japanese restaurant, and one man in a later stabbing. The perpetrator was arrested.
2018-03-7

Austria’s highest court orders a repeat of the presidential elections narrowly lost in May by right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria candidate Norbert Hofer. The margin of votes was less than 1%.
2016-07-1

2013 Vienna train collision: Two trains packed with morning commuters collide in Vienna suburb, Austria, leaving 41 people injured, five of them seriously.
2013-01-21