The Colombian government wants to resume the peace talk with the left guerrilla movement ELN, the National Liberation Army, as soon as possible. 'We are currently discussing a new armistice,' President Juan Manuel Santos said in Vienna. He hopes to quickly reach an agreement on a cease-fire and then sit down at the negotiating table to 'make a total peace with the ELN'.
The Austrian activist Maximilian Schrems may challenge the Irish head office of Facebook as a consumer to the Austrian courts, but a mass claim on behalf of others is not permitted. That has been determined by the European Court of Justice.
The United Nations is attempting a new attempt to bring a solution to the conflict in Syria closer. UN mediator Staffan de Mistura invited the warring parties to come and talk in Vienna on 25 and 26 January.
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).
Two passenger trains crashed on Friday in Austria at the place Kritzendorf just north of Vienna. It concerns two express trains that partly derail. Three to four wagons would have turned over and passengers would still be in there.
Turkey has protested against the use of dogs at border checks at Schwechat Airport in Vienna. Ankara responded to videos that show how Austrian detectives put their nose in the luggage of Turkish air travelers.
A father (50) and a son (21) in Vienna have provoked a great police action with the shooting range they had set up on the roof of their home. When residents heard the cry, they alarmed the massive police.
The farmers' bargain bidding in Austria, which became effective on Sunday, has not yet caused serious problems. On the first day, the police handed out exhortations.
TUI travel organization is working closely with price fighter easyJet. The number of holiday destinations in Europe will be expanded in the coming winter. 'A summer test with five city trips has been completed,' said TUI.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed Jawad Sharif will discuss in New York next week about the future of the Vienna nuclear convention in 2015.
Most vacations are on display again. On many smartphones are the nicest holiday photos, but it's a pity to do nothing about it. Time for a photo book!
There will be no penny European money for the Hungarian border gate. This was announced by President Juncker of the EU Commission last night. He refuses to be solidarity with Hungary. 'Hungary also does not help us with the recruitment of refugees from Greece and Italy,' said Juncker, according to Bild.
The German authorities arrested a possible accomplice of Franco A., the German military suspected of launching an attack. The new suspect in the case, according to news magazine Der Spiegel, is a 27-year-old first Lieutenant to the German Armed Forces.
Indeed, five extreme right-wing people have been infiltrated in the German army. That was reported by German research journalists on Tuesday. Due to the disclosure, the German defense minister, Ursula von der Leyen, has given a visit to the United States.
A 28-year-old German military who, according to justice, had plans to commit a terrorist attack, has appeared as a Syrian asylum seeker.
A German army officer has been arrested on suspicion of preparing an attack. According to German media, the man would have acted as Syrian refugee.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the controversial toll for passenger cars against criticism from its European neighbors. Her government takes toll ' no discrimination against foreign drivers, '' she said Monday in Berlin. Germany does the same as Austria. That costs too can make about 9 euros to ten days of use highways.
The world tour of a monumental performance of Verdi's opera Aida led by tenor Plácido Domingo (76) has been postponed due to technical problems. Which have informed the organizers Wednesday.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal (Jackal) is sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for an attack in 1974.
Austrian right-wing populist Freedom Party sees a confirmation of its eurosceptic rate in the outcome of the Dutch elections.
He had almost forgotten, Carlos the Jackal, the man who in the seventies and eighties death and destruction sowed by his attacks. Only his nicknames Carlos and Carlos the Jackal (Jackal), invariably evoke horrific memories. Although he is serving a life sentence in France, brings the prosecutor him still before the courts because of an attack in 1974.
Austria to the wealthy Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtasj over to the US where he is accused of large-scale bribery. This has given a court in Vienna Tuesday.
The Turkish Embassy in Austria runs an informant network that opponents of Erdogan detects, such as Kurds, journalists and supporters of cleric Fethullah Gulen. The network would be run by ATIB, the Austrian branch of the Turkish Ministry of Religious Affairs Diyanet.
Austria's parliament last weekend hit by a DDoS attack. The website was therefore briefly inaccessible. The parliament said Tuesday that the attack was the work of the Turkish ultranationalist hacker group Aslan Neferler Tim, or the Lion soldiers.
Former Greens-leader Alexander Van der Bellen (73) is installed Thursday as the new president of Austria. After taking the oath, he held in his acceptance speech to the parliament in Vienna an impassioned plea for the European Union.
The Austrian police on Thursday raided in search of terrorist suspects in Vienna and Graz. It would be a large-scale action, which has been prepared for weeks.
A seventeen year old Austrian of Albanian origin who was arrested last week on suspicion of planning an attack in Vienna, had a testbom 'made in Germany. As a second suspect was arrested, a 21-year-old man from Neuss. The Austrian Foreign Minister, Wolfgang Sobotka, that has announced.
Germany have arrested a terror suspect who worked possible with a man who was arrested in Vienna because he had plans for an attack. Special units of the terror suspect held in the city Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia. That happened Saturday, made justice in Germany Sunday released.
A thief is Saturday morning in Vienna to get passed by a tram. According to Austrian media he did not get far. Namely the transport switched off the power after the theft was discovered. The perpetrator hit on the run and disappeared.
An eighteen-year-old Austrian man was arrested Friday as he had planned an attack in Vienna. Foreign Minister Wolfgang Sobotka made Friday. Sobotka did not give any details, except that the man has a migration background.
