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Three hikers are killed by a lightning strike on Mittagsspitze mountain in the Central Eastern Alps, Austria.
2025-06-15

The Social Democratic Party, the Austrian People's Party, and the NEOS party in Austria agree to form a coalition government, leaving out the far-right Freedom Party, who won the most seats in the National Council in the 2024 legislative election. The coalition agreement ends Austria's longest period without a government since World War II.
2025-02-27

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

Iran releases one Danish and two dual Austrian-Iranian citizens.
2023-06-2

Lawmakers from the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria walkout from the lower house of Austria's parliament during a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a protest against the violation of Austria's national principle of neutrality.
2023-03-30

Austrian foreign minister Karin Kneissl recalls diplomat Jürgen-Michael Kleppich from Israel after he is photographed wearing a t-shirt with slogans linked to Nazism.
2018-03-21

Sebastian Kurz becomes the new Chancellor of Austria and a new government is inaugurated.
2017-12-18

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

Hungary makes a fifth arrest in relation to the death of seventy-one migrants in a truck in Austria.
2015-08-30

Approximately 107 people are charged with possessing offensive child pornography in Austria.
2010-12-19