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Iran has slammed the United Nations nuclear watchdog as “biased and unfair” at a key meeting of the agency at its Vienna headquarters, saying it is suffering from a “crisis of moral authority and credibility.”
In a speech to member-states of the...
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Austrian casino rules which required gambling operators to be based in the country, have been found in breach of EU law.
The European courts ruled that the...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Today, for the first time, kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch reveals the horror of her ordeal in full, from the moment she was snatched from the street as a...
made popular Sep 8 2010
The U.N. atomic agency expressed alarm Monday about Iran’s decision to bar some of its inspectors, suggesting that its efforts to monitor the country’s...
made popular Sep 7 2010
Iran has activated equipment to enrich uranium more efficiently in a move that defies the U.N. Security Council, the International Atomic Energy Agency said...
made popular Aug 10 2010
“Freud the fraud”: till now, I always contributed Dr Sigmund Freud along with Einstein to the Czech-Austrian-German Jewry also ethnic differences had been heralded...
made popular Apr 18 2010
In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran...
made popular Nov 28 2009
The race between the two EU’s eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost...
made popular Nov 16 2009
Two men have been arrested for people smuggling after 64 Kurds were found in the back of a lorry in Styria.
Graz police said today (Weds) two men, an Austrian and a...
made popular Oct 15 2009
A year after his death in a car crash, a new memorial to Joerg Haider has become a temple to the man who shook up European politics with his anti-foreigner...
made popular Oct 15 2009
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman met with his Austrian counterpart in Vienna and said that embracing the Goldstone Report amounts to granting diplomatic immunity to...
made popular Oct 15 2009
Austria was hit by a record October snowfall late on Tuesday when strong winds and heavy snow caused power blackouts, train delays and traffic accidents.
Austria...
made popular Oct 15 2009
An Iranian proposal prohibiting military attacks against nuclear installations worldwide has been approved by the UN nuclear watchdog’s general conference, an...
made popular Sep 15 2009
Iran is not going to produce a nuclear weapon any time soon and the threat posed by its atomic program has been exaggerated, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said in a...
made popular Sep 2 2009
Austrian authorities had to rescue young children from municipal mailboxes on at least two occasions recently near Vienna.
The Associated Press reported that the...
made popular Aug 31 2009
Dear readers, amidst all the mayhem, I just couldn`t pick up my pen to write these words until the dust settled a little. The infamous Crisis is by now becoming...
made popular Dec 18 2008
Turkey, Austria and Japan have just won the three open non permanent United Nations Security Council seats. The effort was not without contention and raises questions...
made popular Oct 20 2008
Suppose you give me a million dollars with the instructions, “Invest this profitably, and I’ll pay you well.” I’m a sharp dresser — why...
made popular Oct 6 2008
For tens of thousands of years, fire has defined our civilization. It is fire that has allowed us to smelt metals, to purify chemicals, to power cars, trains and...
made popular Oct 6 2008
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Import/Export is a bizarre, horrifying, challenging work, often brilliant and spectacular, often troubling and indeed objectionable.
made popular Oct 6 2008
September, Salzburg. Now that the tourists departed from their star-gazing vacation of the Festspiele, Salzburgian’s can now enjoy enclosed harmony the joys of...
made popular Sep 20 2008
With the end of the Summer Salzburg Festival, I think back to the founders of such an event. Two of the prime movers were Jews: the magnificent theater director Max...
made popular Sep 15 2008
This week in Vienna sees a series of events to co-inside with autumn season. There is the Jewish Festival: Yiddishkeit, that is advertised on the Ubahn with a gigantic...
made popular Sep 13 2008
The union representing California state prison guards filed a formal notice that it will seek to oust Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a move his advisers say they are...
made popular Sep 10 2008
Developed by Australia’s Krome Studios, this Hellboy adventure, released to coincide with the new Hollywood flick, begins promisingly.The inimitable Ron Perlman...
made popular Aug 29 2008
CELLAR incest victim Elisabeth Fritzl is teaching her children to play — because they had no idea how to have fun.
made popular Aug 15 2008
I find it incredible that football referees put up with the level of abuse that they are subjected to by both players and managers alike.
In the rule book it says that...
made popular Jun 13 2008
Josef Fritzl, the Austrian man who fathered seven children with his daughter while keeping her imprisoned in a windowless dungeon in his cellar, has complained about...
made popular May 9 2008
Austria’s chancellor has said the country will adopt tougher laws on sex crimes following the case of a man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years.
made popular May 8 2008
United for the first time, the family of the man who confessed to fathering seven children with his daughter celebrated the birthday of one of the kids, police said...
made popular Apr 30 2008
Like many Britons whose image of Austria was defined by school history lessons and The Sound Of Music, whenever this landlocked Alpine nation is mentioned certain...
made popular Apr 29 2008
Food riots which have struck several impoverished countries could spread with shortages and high prices set to continue for some time, the head of the United Nation’s...
made popular Apr 10 2008
One of them looks like a giant mint humbug, with its clear blue, green and brown stripes.
The other looks as if it has been shot through with a streak of...
made popular Mar 18 2008
What does European Union stands for? One always epitomizes it as an organization that’ll work towards the betterment, both at an individual and societal level. As...
made popular Jul 21 2007
If in Washington it is politically awkward to refer to the genocide, it is positively dangerous to do so in Istanbul.
Hrant Dink became the 1,500,001st victim of the...
made popular Jan 20 2007
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People in traditional clothes erect a maypole in Grossgmain, Austrian province of Salzburg, Friday, May 1, 2009. Following a century-old tradition, May Poles are set up on the first of May all over Austria.
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