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The Austrian authorities suspect a former army officer of having spied for Russia for decades. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz asked Moscow for clarification, reports Austrian media.

The EU should focus on strengthening the external borders of the union and cooperation with countries outside the EU in order to keep the migration within bounds. That said EU President Donald Tusk after an EU summit in Salzburg. 'The migration debate shows that we do not agree on everything but on the goal: to curb illegal immigration. We have decided to focus on what unites us and has already produced results. '

The EU leaders are on Wednesday and Thursday in Salzburg for a migration summit. Host is Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who wants to speed up the migration issue as a temporary EU president.

The European Union must do everything in its power to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the union without agreement on the new relationship. This is what stressed Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on his visit to Paris with President Emmanuel Macron on Monday. Austria is currently EU President.

President Vladimir Putin is going to a wedding in Austria this weekend. The Kremlin has confirmed, according to Russian media, that Putin is attending the wedding ceremony of Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl for his talk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in southeastern Austria.

In collaboration with Europol, the Spanish police rolled up a gang that smuggled immigrants into the European Union. The police arrested six suspects in the Spanish Basque Country and one in Madrid, according to the police against the Spanish news agency Europa Press.

With a visit to Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz, British Prime Minister Theresa May tries to save what can be saved from her tattered Brexit proposal.

In Iran, Saturday night protested against the continuing shortage of drinking water. The police used tear gas, there was a wounded person. It has been hot in Iran for days with temperatures of over 45 degrees.

Austria is the EU President for the next six months. It is the third time that the country that joined in 1995 occupies that position. Migration and asylum will be important themes.

The Austrian authorities have asked Germany for clarification of the systematic spying of government services and companies by the intelligence service BND for years. The magazine 'Profil' and the Viennese newspaper 'Der Standard' revealed these German bugging practices on Saturday.

More than 175,000 people went into the streets of Spain in the Basque Country on Sunday to form a human chain of more than 200 kilometers. With this action, the Basques want to express their demand for a referendum on independence.

The Austrian government closes seven mosques and rejects several imams. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that there is no place in his country for 'parallel societies, political Islam and radicalization.'

Austria thinks that the EU budget should go down considerably after the Brexit. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz argued Thursday at a congress of the European People's Party in Munich that the European Union lost 13 percent of its population after Britain left. Then at a managerial level in the EU austerity measures are appropriate. That is also the Dutch position.

The Russian president Putin brings a working visit to Vienna on Tuesday. According to local media, the Austrian capital is being lamented for 'the Putin show' by security measures and deposits for nine hours. Eight hundred agents and hundreds of soldiers watch over the city and its guest from Russia.

In the run-up to the dismantling of the terrorist organization, the ETA has handed over two cases with weapons to the French authorities. Sources of the Spanish terrorist campaign told the Spanish news agency Europa Press that the weapons were delivered in the city of Bayonne in the French Basque Country.

A 41-year-old Canadian was lynched in an Indian village in the east of Peru after the murder of a local medicine woman, Olivia Arévalo. The 81-year-old woman was assassinated last Thursday with a firearm in the town of Victoria Grande.

The Basque terror movement ETA announces in the first weekend of May that the organization will be lifted. Sources around the ETA told the Spanish newspaper El País that the decision to dismantle in French Basque country will be announced.

A prominent politician of the Austrian right-wing party FPÖ resigned because he sang after-songs in his student days. The now 31-year-old Udo Landbauer said Thursday during a press conference that he put all his political functions down. He will therefore not be part of the parliament of Lower Austria, for which he was elected on Sunday during the state elections.

Thousands of people have argued against the new right-wing government coalition on Saturday in Vienna. It consists of the conservative Christian Democratic ÖVP (Austrian People's Party) and the radically right FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria). She is led by the young ÖVP politician Sebastian Kurz (31).

The far-right Austrian Minister of Internal Affairs Herbert Kickl called upon the country's anger with a remark about 'concentrating on one place of asylum seekers'. That term, his critics call, is too closely linked to the Nazi term concentration camp.

The new Federal Chancellor of Austria, Sebastian Kurz, wants a completely new refugee policy for the European Union. He chooses a party for Hungary and Poland. 'Member States have to decide for themselves whether and how many people they will receive', says the 31-year-old conservative politician in Bild am Sonntag.

Billionaire and former president Sebastian Piñera is once again the new Head of State of Chile. He won the presidential election Sunday of the center-left politician Alejandro Guillier, with more than 54 percent of the votes, reports the electoral council. Guillier congratulated his announcement of the official result of his conservative competitor.

The right-wing populist FPÖ gets important ministerial posts in the new Austrian government. The partner of the conservative ÖVP was assigned the portfolios of Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs and Defense.

The Austrian conservative party ÖVP and the right-wing FPÖ want to reign together. The 31-year-old ÖVP leader Sebastian Kurz confirmed on Friday that a coalition agreement has been reached.

Billionaire and former president Sebastian Piñera leads Sunday in the first round of the presidential elections in Chile. The right-wing candidate has the support of more than 36 percent of voters.

The conservative ÖVP led by Sebastian Kurz and the right-wing FPÖ van Heinz-Christian Strache won the parliamentary elections in Austria, according to forecasts based on preliminary results. Both parties booked 30.5 and 26.8 percent, respectively, of votes in terms of the previous elections in 2013 respectively.

The Austrian electorate will go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament. In May, a split between the coalition parties ÖVP and SPÖ occurred, which only became deeper after that. The conservative ÖVP led by Sebastian Kurz is likely to be the biggest party. The socio-democratic SPÖ and the right-populist FPÖ compete for place two.

A mediaeval posterboy and former neonazi compete for power in Austria. Tomorrow, the only 31-year-old 'posterboy' Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) can win. Competitor Hans Christian Straße (48) of the right-wing FPÖ- a former neonazi- may become vice-chancellor.

After Steve Bannon leaves another ultra-right advisor to the US president Donald Trump. Sebastian Gorka told to US media that he resigned, but according to anonymous government officials, he was expelled by the new chief of staff Donald Trump, John Kelly.