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Archaeological Discovery in Austria Rewrites the History of Bacon
6,000 pig bones were found buried in an ancient slaughterhouse
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The E.U. just forced Austria to rethink its anti-migrant plan
Austria has backed down from deploying troops and armored vehicles to patrol its border with Italy, a day after threatening to do so amid growing tensions in Europe over a surge of migrants arriving across the Mediterranean.
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Austria ready to deploy army at Italy border
Austria will “very soon” impose border checks and deploy soldiers on its frontier with Italy if the influx of migrants across the Mediterranean does not slow, Vienna’s defence minister was quoted as saying Monday…
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Hitler's birthplace seizure backed by Austrian court
Austria's Constitutional Court has ruled that the state was right to expropriate Adolf Hitler's birthplace, which will be remodelled and used by a disabilities charity. Former owner Gerlinde Pommer had appealed against parliament's vote in December to seize the property. The court said expropriation would help ensure that the building, in Braunau am Inn, did not become a neo-Nazi shrine.
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Austria's burqa ban kicks in this October
New Austrian legislation came into force on Friday that will ban the full-face Islamic veil in public places from October 1st.
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Germans Love White Asparagus And Austrians Love Chanterelles
Deutschland (and Austria) über us.
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Austria is paying refugees to leave
Austria has said it will double the amount of money paid to migrants who voluntarily return to their home countries as part of a plan to speed up the repatriation of 50,000 asylum seekers. Interior minister Wolfgang Sobotka said migrants would be offered €1,000 or about £864, during a press conference in Vienna. The scheme, which is reportedly run in collaboration with pro-refugee groups, is aimed at migrants who are unlikely to qualify for at least temporary residence by 2019.
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Man who raped 10-year-old boy because of 'sexual emergency' has conviction overturned
A man who raped a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in Austria has had his conviction overturned after judges found he may have believed the child consented. Police said the 20-year-old Iraqi refugee, who has not been named, assaulted his victim in a toilet cubicle at the Theresienbad swimming pool in Vienna on 2 December last year.
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Austria planning to deploy troops to stop refugees
Austrian is planning to send troops to “protect” the European Union’s external borders against refugees. Hans Peter Doskozil, the defence minister, said Austria was one of 16 countries around the Balkan route used by more than a million migrants to journey from Greece into Europe who are cooperating on the new “border defence project”. “The western Balkan route is still not as closed as it should be,” the Social Democrat (SPÖ) minister told Die Welt.
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All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine
Fearful of digital decay, a ceramicist wants to return data storage to a more lasting medium: clay. By Richard Kemeny.
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The neo-Nazi in sheep’s clothing who could soon be an EU president
We should all be very concerned right now. By Tom Wall.
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Verdict on swimming pool rape case overturned
An Iraqi refugee who was jailed after claiming it was a sexual emergency when he raped a boy in a swimming pool has had the sentence overturned. An appeal court accepted the defence lawyer’s claim that the lower court had not done enough to ascertain whether or not the rapist had realized the schoolboy was saying no. The attacker, identified as 20-year-old Iraqi migrant Amir A., had been treated to a trip to the Theresienbad pool in December 2015 as part of the integration process.
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Austria to demolish house where Adolf Hitler was born
The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be torn down and replaced with a new building that has no association with the Nazi dictator, Austria's government announced Monday as it moved to eliminate the property's pull as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis. The plan still has to be formalized in legislation and voted on in Parliament. But the Interior Ministry said demolition was recommended by a government-appointed commission.
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Woman found with bag of her husband's entrails at airport customs
Customs officials at an Austrian airport have stopped a female traveller carrying two containers of entrails into the country, believed to belong to her late husband. The packages belonged to a Moroccan national who suspected her husband had been poisoned. He died during an operation in Morocco, according to the Kleine Zeitung newspaper.
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Austrian Teenager Sues Parents For Posting Pictures From Her Childhood To Facebook
When we talk about young people filing lawsuits over "oversharing" of information and/or media on social media sites, schools are typically the targets of the suits. Inevitably, whether school personnel originally sought access to a...
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Origin of the German and Austrian surname Gruber
The name Gruber is a moderately popular surname in Germany and the most common surname in Austria.
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Over 11,000 asylum seekers listed as crime suspects in Austria
While the number asylum seekers arriving in Austria has significantly dropped, the number having trouble with the law is on the rise. Some 11,158 were suspected of committing offences in the first half of 2016, compared to 15,236 in the whole of 2015. The staggering figures were revealed by the Austrian newspaper, Krone, which referenced data received by the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) from the Ministry of Interior as the result of an information request. The statistics are to be officially published on Tuesday.
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Austria reveals almost 300 potential terrorists are now in the country
HUNDREDS of jihadis are believed to be living in Austria making the country a possible target for the next Islamic State (ISIS) terror attack, it has been revealed. The country's Interior Ministry of Austria admitted they have identified 278 potential jihadists - many of whom have spent time in Iraq or Syria. The numbers were revealed by Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka from the conservative Austrian People's Party after parliamentary questions were asked, according to Austrian daily 'Die Presse'.
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Can Europe expect its first far-right head of state? Austria to hold do-over election
Austria’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the presidential run-off election must be held again. Anti-immigration Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer – seen here on the left – was narrowly defeated in May by former Greens leader-turned-independent Alexander Van der Bellen. With the result annulled, Hofer will now have another chance to become the European Union’s…
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Refugees banned from Austrian pool after ‘foreigner’ sexually assaults teenage girl
Authorities in the Austrian town of Mistelbach issued a temporary pool ban for refugees following a sexual assault by a “dark-skinned’ man on a 13-year-old girl. "This news was a shock," said the town’s mayor, Alfred Pohl, as quoted by the Heute media outlet. According to Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung, the attack happened on Wednesday afternoon.
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