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According to Caritas, 733 million people worldwide are affected by hunger. Nearly one-third of the world's population does not have secure access to food, which is mainly due to the climate crisis. Hunger...weiterlesen »
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The 18-year-old Luca K. was arrested two days before the trial after a foiled attack on the Taylor Swift concert in Vienna and has been in pre-trial detention since then. The charges are allegations of...weiterlesen »
On Monday, the planned reform of the AVG major procedures was presented to the reform group from the federal government, states, municipalities, and cities at the chancellery. This working group is part...weiterlesen »
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The funding call announced last year for twelve months will be paid out in full for one year in 2025, at a monthly rate of 1,500 euros to all 50 grant recipients. The additional costs incurred will be...weiterlesen »
The Constitutional Court (VfGH) is reviewing the Carinthian referendum on wind power due to a potentially value-laden question. A narrow majority had voted in January for a ban on new wind turbines. The...weiterlesen »
A five-member delegation from the EU Parliament visited Vienna for three days to take a closer look at the housing market on site. In December 2024, the EU Parliament decided to set up a one-year special...weiterlesen »
In the struggle for a new regulation on the levies on tips, the agreement within the three-party coalition is still pending. At the summer ministerial council on Wednesday at the Federal Chancellery, the...weiterlesen »
Vienna can record another overnight stay record: This year, the best first half of the year so far was recorded. This was announced by Vienna Tourism on Wednesday. With 8.8 million overnight stays, there...weiterlesen »
The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) had sued the Upper Austrian FPÖ state party secretary Michael Gruber due to statements in a press release from 2023. In it, the state party secretary...weiterlesen »
In the struggle for a new regulation of levies on tips, the agreement within the three-party coalition is still pending. At the summer ministerial council on Wednesday at the Federal Chancellery, the topic...weiterlesen »
The 18-year-old living in Upper Styria, who is suspected of planning attacks on Western society, has been taken into pre-trial detention. The spokesperson for the Leoben public prosecutor's office cited...weiterlesen »
After recent thoughts were aired within the ÖVP and by employer representatives to make full-time work more tax-attractive, Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer (SPÖ) warned on Wednesday against disparaging...weiterlesen »
Online retail in Vienna is experiencing a noticeable decline for the first time in years. According to a recent study by the Institute for Austria's Economy commissioned by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce,...weiterlesen »
After the autopsy of the body of extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner, who died in a fatal accident in Italy last Thursday, ruled out cardiac arrest as the cause of death, the public prosecutor of the central...weiterlesen »
The 25-year-old is accused, among other things, of having threatened an attack at Jakominiplatz in downtown Graz in May. However, during the arrest, neither objects nor evidence of a concrete attack plan...weiterlesen »
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Most drowning deaths in Austria this year occurred while swimming. Two fatalities happened in diving accidents, and one each in a stand-up paddleboard and a kayak accident. By July 20th of the previous...weiterlesen »
"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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
The Vienna FPÖ sees no reason to soften its criticism of SPÖ City Councillor Peter Hacker even after the Vienna election. "The health and social system is increasingly falling apart," stated FPÖ leader...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 »
As a measure against the shortage of doctors in hospitals, health insurance practices, the army, or the police, 85 of the 1,900 places for medical studies in Austria have been dedicated to "tasks in the...weiterlesen »