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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.

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern (SPÖ) wants refugees to be taken in camps outside the EU. Core is thinking about camps in countries such as Libya, Senegal, Mali and Afghanistan.

The referendum in Turkey may be 'manipulated' to 2.5 million votes. That said one of the observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Tuesday against the Austrian radio station ORF.

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.

Austria Tuesday imposed a ban on the burqa in public space. The ban is part of a new integration program of the Austrian coalition government of Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the center-right People's Party (ÖVP).

Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal (Jackal) is sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for an attack in 1974.

Austria wants the European program for the mutual redistribution of refugees off. Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said Tuesday that he will see how the country can get out of the agreements.

North Korea has made great progress with its nuclear program. Having atomic watchdog IAEA announced Tuesday. The country has doubled the capacity of a factory suspected uranium enrichment. Of these, nuclear weapons can be made.

For the second time this week in the Austrian province of Tyrol skiers killed by avalanche. Friday, two skiers were buried under a murderous snow.

The United Nations has been battling with the increasing use of the painkiller fentanyl and an even stronger version. The Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Thursday, the two main ingredients for the manufacture of fentanyl put on the blacklist. National governments must monitor the manufacture and sale of these materials carefully to prevent them from ending up in illegal drug labs.

Austrian right-wing populist Freedom Party sees a confirmation of its eurosceptic rate in the outcome of the Dutch elections.

At least three people were killed Wednesday came when they were surprised by an avalanche in the Austrian Alps.

Vienna is again the best city to live in. For the eighth consecutive year, the Austrian capital at the top of a list that is annually compiled by consulting firm Mercer on quality of life. Amsterdam is in twelfth place in the list published Tuesday.

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern has Monday said that he intends Turkish ministers who wish to campaign to ban in favor of the referendum. He joins well with the measure which the Netherlands took to ensure that ministers were making propaganda for the plan to expand the power of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through a plebiscite.

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.

Following Germany and the Netherlands are also canceled in Austria meetings with Turkish politicians. Performances by politicians in Linz, Herzogenburg Hörbranz and do not go through while in Wiener Neustadt the town looking for a way to stabbing a stick for a meeting Sunday.

Because of the strong, warm wind that swept over the Alps at the weekend the chance of avalanches is high. Before alerting the weather services of Austria and Switzerland Sunday. The avalanche danger is especially present above the 2000 meter mark.

Ukrainian businessman Dmitro Firtasj has been a free man Friday after paying a bail of 125 million euros. Earlier this week the court in Austria has agreed to extradite to the US Firtasj Immediately after this statement, he was arrested at the request of the Spanish police. Spain suspects of money laundering Firtasj.

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.

In two avalanches on Sunday three skiers were killed in different places in Austria. The three men are resuscitated, but died moments later all three of their injuries.

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.

Oil production from countries that are members of oil cartel OPEC was first dropped in seven months. Even Russia, which is not an OPEC member, word seems to keep his production as promised to cut back. That made OPEC Wednesday.