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"At more than one in ten groundwater measuring stations, the water level is as low as it has ever been in mid-July. The western federal states are particularly affected, where the snow-poor winter and...weiterlesen »
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The rapidly advancing technological progress threatens to profoundly change our lives. Liberal thinking, as well as the value of scientific knowledge, is being questioned. Instead of compassion, a ruthless...weiterlesen »
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A 20-year-old Hungarian woman is said to have faked a pregnancy and claimed she needed financial resources for an ongoing legal case in her home country, according to police reports on Tuesday. When the...weiterlesen »
He will succeed the Swedish Vice President Thomas Östros on September 1st. His appointment was made by decision of the finance ministers of the EU countries as shareholders of the bank, following a proposal...weiterlesen »
On Tuesday, more details emerged regarding the death of the Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner, who crashed with his motorized paraglider in Italy last Thursday. According to the responsible...weiterlesen »
The verdict is not final. The Italian is said to have committed numerous assaults against a girl in the Weinviertel. The sexual acts, which according to the indictment also resulted in the Ukrainian girl's...weiterlesen »
The perpetrator in Vienna-Penzing tore a gold chain from the neck of the elderly lady lying on the ground and stole all the cash - according to police spokeswoman Anna Gutt, about 250 euros - from her...weiterlesen »
During their patrol, officers from the Albert Schweitzer-Gasse police station noticed the suspicious behavior of a man standing with two e-scooters in the half-open entrance door of a multi-party building,...weiterlesen »
A witness had called the emergency services in the morning because of a burning box under the car, and by the time the authorities arrived, it was already on fire. The Vienna professional fire brigade...weiterlesen »
According to initial witness statements, the ambulance was apparently on an emergency call when it approached the intersection of the Vienna Margaretengürtel with Arbeitergasse with its blue lights on...weiterlesen »
The number of recorded "hate crimes" increased significantly last year. According to the Hate Crime Report for 2024, the police registered 6,786 bias-motivated crimes, which is about 20 percent more than...weiterlesen »
The perpetrator in Vienna-Penzing tore a gold chain from the neck of the elderly lady lying on the ground and stole all the cash from her wallet. When the victim's son, who lives in the neighboring apartment,...weiterlesen »
Although SPÖ, ÖVP, and NEOS have fundamentally agreed on an increase, the ÖVP rejects the measures proposed in the Ministry of Transport's draft. The domestic economy would be more burdened than transit,...weiterlesen »
It was about two cannabis plantations on Tuesday in a trial at the Vienna Regional Court. A 59-year-old had initially rented a house with sufficient space in a village in the Weinviertel (Korneuburg district)...weiterlesen »
A 37-year-old suspect was arrested in Austria. The man had contacted the police in Linz himself before the discovery on Monday afternoon and said he had killed three people. The suspect was provisionally...weiterlesen »
A car driver collided with a train of the Erlauftalbahn in Purgstall an der Erlauf (Scheibbs district) on Tuesday morning. The 60-year-old is said to have stopped at the stop sign of the railway crossing...weiterlesen »
The insulted politician, SPÖ state party chairman Mario Leiter, had filed a private lawsuit, reported Vorarlberg daily newspapers. The previously unblemished pensioner was sentenced to a fine of 7,200...weiterlesen »
In a rear-end collision on the West Motorway (A1) near Blindenmarkt (Melk district) on Tuesday night, eight passengers of a van were injured. The 24-year-old driver is believed to have collided with a...weiterlesen »
A 13-year-old e-scooter rider was injured in a collision with a car on Monday in Tulln. The boy had ridden off the sidewalk onto Rudolf-Buchinger-Straße to avoid pedestrians. Despite an emergency stop,...weiterlesen »
The 18-year-old from the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district in Upper Styria came under the investigators' radar after a tip-off from abroad was received in mid-July. The youth, with North Macedonian roots, is...weiterlesen »
Although SPÖ, ÖVP, and NEOS have fundamentally agreed on an increase, the ÖVP rejects the measures proposed in the draft by the Ministry of Transport. The domestic economy would be more burdened than transit,...weiterlesen »
A car driver collided with a train set of the Erlauftalbahn in Purgstall an der Erlauf (Scheibbs district) on Tuesday morning. According to police information, the 60-year-old was slightly injured. The...weiterlesen »
24 percent of the total 2,705 accidents happened in these summer months, warned the ÖAMTC on Monday. According to Statistics Austria, in 2024, as many people died in alcohol-related accidents as not seen...weiterlesen »
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Marko Arnautovic had been without a club since the end of his contract with Inter Milan, and a move to Rapid failed. Zvezdan Terzic, General Director of Red Star, confirmed to the Serbian agency Tanjug...weiterlesen »
The Vienna ÖVP will officially elect their new leader Markus Figl as party chairman on September 27 during a party conference. A party spokesperson confirmed a corresponding report by the "Kurier" to the...weiterlesen »
The trial against the boy was conducted under strict security measures. He had planned a terrorist attack in Vienna, with the Westbahnhof as the primary target. He assured an IS contact person that the...weiterlesen »
The 20-year-old was injured on the arm, said a spokesperson for the State Police Directorate to APA. The woman claimed to have acted in self-defense. The Austrian is in a detention center, and the 26-year-old...weiterlesen »
Eight months were pronounced as unconditional. The youth received 16 months on probation with a three-year probation period. This means that the 15-year-old would have to remain in prison until early October...weiterlesen »
A 28-year-old man from Russia is suspected of having committed a total of 40 burglaries in Viennese grocery stores, restaurants, and snack bars between January and May 2025. The suspect is said to have...weiterlesen »
The 36-year-old Austrian called the police emergency number from a phone booth in the Schottenpassage on Sunday and threatened to kill an employee of a telephone hotline if she were to hang up the call...weiterlesen »
He is alleged to have approached his ex-girlfriend (27) and her new boyfriend (30) in the Prater despite a restraining order and pulled the boyfriend's legs from behind, causing him to fall to the ground...weiterlesen »
The 45-year-old man is suspected of having stolen a wallet and a mobile phone from a guest in a downtown venue after engaging him in conversation. With the help of technical support, the suspect was shortly...weiterlesen »
He was sentenced to two years of partially suspended imprisonment. Eight months were imposed unconditionally. The youth received a conditional suspension of 16 months with a three-year probation period....weiterlesen »
Currently, the repair bonus is undergoing an evaluation, informed the Ministry of Climate led by Norbert Totschnig (ÖVP) in a statement. As part of the budget planning for 2026, 30 million euros have been...weiterlesen »
The man initially posed as a customer and placed his purchases on the conveyor belt at the checkout. However, during the transaction, he pulled out a knife and demanded cash from the 39-year-old cashier,...weiterlesen »
"As part of the redesign of the outdoor area, we have added a river course and created another natural pond for the animals," said the director of the Vienna Zoo Schönbrunn, Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck, on...weiterlesen »
A car driver apparently failed to see the two officers, aged 23 and 25, as they were conducting a traffic check. The severely injured men were taken to the AUVA Trauma Center in Vienna Meidling. A policewoman...weiterlesen »
The man had threatened an employee and, during his escape, threw a burning newspaper into the sales area. Before his arrest, the suspect, who did not confess, also aimed a CO2 pistol at a police officer,...weiterlesen »
The owner had let his animal run around without a leash and muzzle, even though there is a general dog ban at the bathing lake during the summer. The 21-year-old will be reported, according to the police....weiterlesen »
The woman from the Grieskirchen district, along with her 54-year-old companion from the Wels-Land district, chose the steep so-called Schafluckensteig. There, she stepped on a rock that gave way: She fell...weiterlesen »