All news on the topic: Austria

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How Putin hijacked Austria’s spy service — and is now gunning for its government
Intelligence officials suspect Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek of colluding with the far-right Freedom Party on Moscow’s behalf.
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Research and espionage: an institute staffed by Russian intelligence officers is recruiting students and scientists abroad
Following a series of high-profile failures and mass expulsions of uniformed “diplomats,” Russian intelligence has turned to more subtle methods, including leveraging scientific organizations with international ties.
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Austria’s OMV AG sued for allegedly aiding war crimes in South Sudan
Less than a year after Sweden initiated a trial against two oil executives accused of abetting grave war crimes during oil exploration in South Sudan over two decades ago...
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Austrian mystery villas linked to former romantic partner of sanctioned Russian oligarch Eduard Khudainatov
Four luxurious properties were purchased by Khudainatov’s longtime partner for a total of 26 million euros.
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Heiress giving away her £22M inheritance is looking for 50 strangers to help
BASF heiress Marlene Engelhorn, who garnered media attention for her far-left agenda of increasing taxes on the rich, said she's forming a group of 50 individuals and 15 substitutes to help redistribute her $24.7 million inheritance in a passionate effort to offset wealth inequality
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Four women and girl killed as Vienna rocked by two violent incidents in 24 hours
Four women and a girl have been killed in two violent incidents said to be unconnected in the city in under 24 hours - with three found knifed to death in a Red Light District brothel
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Inside Josef Fritzl's house of horrors where daughter kept captive
Here is the house in Austria that belonged to incest monster Josef Fritzl who kept his daughter Elisabeth as a sex captive in a dungeon for 24 years, who would give birth to seven of his children
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Josef Fritzl's grim life after release - dementia, care home, 'sex drive' claim
Incest father Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a sex dungeon for 24 years, has been granted parole after being categorised as 'no longer' posing a threat to the public
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Josef Fritzl's dungeon where he kept sex slave daughter as monster to be freed
Evil Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter, Elisabeth, prisoner for 24 years and forced her to have seven of his children, has been moved to a regular prison and could be freed for good this year
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Monster Josef Fritzl granted conditional release from prison for mentally ill
Incest monster Josef Fritzl, 88, was jailed for life in 2009 after keeping his daughter locked up in an underground dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children with her
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Austrian incest monster Josef Fritzel 'thinks he's a pop star' as release looms
Incest monster Josef Fritzel, now 88 and suffering from dementia could soon be moved to a care home amid reports he talks to the television and believes he is a pop star
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Heiress sets up 'citizens group' to decide how she should give away £21m fortune
Marlene Englehorn, 31, has set up a citizens group to decide how to spend her £21.5million inheritance from grandmother Traudl Engelhorn-Vechiatto, who died in September 2022
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Cable car disaster sees 4 people seriously injured as tree smashes into ski lift
A tree has reportedly fallen in the Hochoetz skiing area in Austria, bringing down a packed cable car and causing a number of serious injuries, the Austria Press Agency reported
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Woman astonished as stranger helps her uncover amazing family secret by chance
Raised in the UK, Felice Hardy had no idea that as an adult on a fact-finding mission she'd learn that her grandmother, Liesl Herbst, a tennis star, had to leave behind her family and escape the Nazis before she could find happiness and success across the ocean
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Model who spent £13,000 on surgery cannot eat thorough 'biggest lips in Europe'
Vienna Wuerstel, from Vienna, Austria, says she has been left unable eat after spending thousands of pounds on cosmetic surgery to increase the size of her lips - but has no intention of stopping
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World's 'most overcrowded' holiday spot has three tourists to every resident
The world's most overcrowded holiday destination has around three tourists to every local - and some of its towns are trying to put off visitors
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Rhino's rampage kills zookeeper and seriously injures colleague at Austrian zoo
The 33-year-old German woman, from Bavaria in Germany, died after sustaining fatal chest injuries when the 1.8-tonne rhinocerous, called Jeti, attacked her for "unknown reasons" before turning on her husband
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Locals in stunning European town with anti-selfie fence block roads to tourists
Residents of the tiny Alpine settlement of Hallstatt in north Austria have had enough of thousands of visitors coming into the town every day and clogging up the roads
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'I thought stomach pains were pancreatitis - it was even worse than I imagined'
Dawn Clayton suffered severe stomach pains while on holiday in 2013 - which turned out to be the deadly pancreatic cancer - Dawn now plans to hike through the Alps to fundraise for Pancreatic Cancer UK