Critics say the law could fuel anti-Muslim sentiment and a similar proposal to ban head coverings for girls in 2020 was ...

Austria’s parliament voted Thursday to ban headscarves in schools for girls under 14, marking the second attempt by the conservative-led government to restrict Islamic head coverings despite a ...

Having previously cancelled compulsory winter sports for schoolchildren, Austria is debating changing tack to bring young ...

Austria called for early elections on September 9th due to rifts in the governing Freedom Party/Austrian People's Party coalition. The coalition collpase became final when former Vice Chancellor ...

Austria's government wants to speed up the pace of reform to combat the threat posed by far-right populists riding high in opinion polls. Nine months after taking office, the coalition risks becoming ...

VIENNA — Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country's interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party attempts to put together a new coalition government, the ...

VIENNA — A court in Vienna on Monday acquitted former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his government, reversing a ...

Memorial at the entrance of the Borg-Gymnasium after the shooting on June 10, 2025 [Photo by Armin Ademovic / Wikimedia / CC BY 4.0] On June 10, a gunman killed ten people and seriously injured eleven ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Two conservative town council members in eastern Austria have resigned from their posts and left the People's Party after a documentary film showed them singing and toasting one ...

VIENNA, May 26 (Reuters) - An Austrian appeals court said on Monday that it had overturned conservative former chancellor Sebastian Kurz's recent perjury conviction and the resulting eight-month ...