A Turkish migrant is suspected of killing an Austrian official who had denied his application for asylum, according to local media. Alexander Alge, head of the Social Welfare Office in Vorarlberg, was stabbed to death in his office following a dispute with the suspect over the processing of welfare benefits. The suspect had reportedly visited the office on multiple occasions and aggressively demanded,... 

Austria has been rocked by the murders of four women over a span of eight days, with migrant suspects in three cases. A 21-year-old, originally from Ethiopia and holding Spanish citizenship, is suspected of stabbing his own sister to death at Vienna’s central train station on Tuesday. Police are searching for a motive and the man is now undergoing psychiatric evaluation, according to Kronen... 

Another day, another white girl killed by brown men in some corner around the world. This comes only a month after another 16-year-old Austrian teen girl was killed by an Afghan “refugee”. So let’s clear things up for a moment, we welcome these brown invaders here to live among us as equals, we give them our money and our daughters as brides and this is how they repay us. Its a mystery... 

Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Chancellor and the world’s youngest leader at 31-years-old, announced Friday that he would shut down seven mosques and deport up to 60 Turkish backed radical imams and their families back to their homelands due to breaches of a law that bans ‘political Islam’. The imams facing expulsion are all accused of receiving foreign capital. The move taken by the 31-year-old Chancellor... 

Austria will not participate in the creation of an EU army, according to Defense Minister Mario Kunasek. If the EU decides to raise a traditional army – what Kunasek refers to as “common” army – Austria will not “play” along, he told local media Wednesday. “[Europe needs a] security and defense policy worthy of the name, but that is not comparable to an EU army,” said... 

Austrian’s capital has been rocked by an unprecedentedly brazen burglary, after two suspects stormed a monastery church in the northern part of Vienna and robbed it, leaving about a dozen monks injured. The crime occurred in broad daylight; the perpetrators broke into the Church of Maria Immaculata in Vienna’s district of Floridsdorf around 13:30 local time (12:30 GMT), police said in a statement. The... 

An Afghan migrant is the main suspect in the murder case of an Austrian teen. The girl was found murdered by her mother in her room yesterday evening. The 16-year-old was in her mother’s apartment in the district of Münichholz. She had a visit from her boyfriend, a 17-year-old Afghan citizen. https://twitter.com/LPDooe/status/1072061991089508352 When the mother went to look for her daughter at... 

Jewish leaders are calling for new editions of the Bible and Koran to carry warning messages which highlight anti-Semitic passages in the holy texts. The recommendations have been made in a new document called ‘An End to Antisemitism! A Catalogue of Policies to Combat Antisemitism’. It was produced following an international conference organised by the European Jewish Congress, at which academics... 

The United Nations’ migration package equals to “betraying Europe” because the plan is “in conflict with the interests of the people”, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told at a press conference held jointly with Heinz-Christian Strache, the vice-chancellor of Austria, in Vienna on Wednesday. Szijjarto insisted that the package would pose a “serious danger” for Europe as it is “aimed... 

Tunisian migrant Mohamed H. was sentenced to life in a Linz court Monday after being found guilty of murdering an elderly Austrian couple because they supported the populist, anti-mass migration Freedom Party (FPÖ). EUTimes commentary on Arabic mentality: Look, FPO doesn’t want me in their country because they think I can create problems??? And you vote for them? I kill you! If anything this... 

Just a few weeks after the opening of a new “Balkan route” of travel through Albania, Montegegro, Bosnia and Croatia, Austrian forces will conduct border-security exercises on June 25 in the border town of Spielfeld in preparation for a wave of 80,000 migrants expected to travel through the route to Western and Central Europe, reports Kronen Zeitung, Austria’s most widely-circulated newspaper. Taking... 

The Austrian government has announced the closure of at least seven mosques and has started procedures to expel 53 imams as part of its previously-announced policy to crack down on “political Islam”—and which is likely to lead to more Muslims leaving the central European state. According to an official statement on the website of the Austrian Federal Government, the “first decisions have been... 

Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has called on the European Union to lift anti-Russian sanctions amid the US decision to impose tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from the bloc. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced he would remove exemptions and impose 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico. “Rethinking... 

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government has taken a tougher stance on asylum-seekers and refugees in a bid to halt the migration flow into the country. Austria’s right-wing coalition has announced its modified plans to cut benefit payments for foreigners, including asylum-seekers, who don’t speak German for five years. “The fundamental rule we will introduce is that German will become... 

European Union border guards should be stationed in North Africa to prevent nonwhites from even crossing the Mediterranean Sea in the first place, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has demanded. Speaking in an interview with the German Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Kurz—who is in a formal alliance with the anti-invasion Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ)—said the EU’s Frontex border control agents...