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Austria will begin a lockdown for people not vaccinated against Covid-19, a first in the EU as the Alpine member fights a record surge in cases, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said on Sunday. About 65 percent of Austria’s almost nine million people are vaccinated, below the EU average of 67 percent, while daily increases in infections have hit records this week. Other European governments are also eyeing unpopular Covid curbs, with the Netherlands opting for Western […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austria on Friday said only those vaccinated or cured from coronavirus would be allowed to frequent restaurants, hotels and cultural venues as the Alpine nation battles a surge in cases. The new rule takes effect on Monday with a four-week transition phase to incentivise people to get jabbed, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said. “No one wants to split the society, but it is our responsibility to protect the people in our […]
by Alexandra VARDI MITZPE RAMON, Israel (AFP) — Inside a huge crater in Israel’s sun-baked Negev desert, a team wearing space suits ventures forth on a mission to simulate conditions on Mars. The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre (1,600-foot) deep, 40 kilometre (25 mile) wide crater. The six so-called “analogue astronauts” will live in isolation in the virtual station until […]
by Jastinder KHERA VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austria’s top diplomat Alexander Schallenberg took over as chancellor on Monday as the ruling party tries to emerge from a corruption scandal that cost the job of one of Europe’s youngest leaders. Sebastian Kurz, a 35-year-old once feted as a “whizz kid”, said late Saturday he was quitting the top job after being implicated in a corruption scandal. Schallenberg, 52, was sworn in by President Alexander Van der […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) – Austria’s government unveiled on Sunday what it calls an “eco-social” reform of the tax system, a key promise of the conservative-green coalition. Under the measures set out at a news conference by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and several of his cabinet colleagues, Austria will follow the example of neighbouring Germany and introduce a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. This is to come in from mid-2022 at a level of 30 euros ($35) […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austria will phase out AstraZeneca from its Covid-19 immunization program because of delivery problems and wariness among the population following reports of the vaccine’s rare side effects, the health minister said. Austria becomes the third European country, after Norway and Denmark, to completely drop the AstraZeneca vaccine from its national immunization program over rare cases of severe blood clots in people receiving the jab. “We will probably continue to do first […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austria’s health minister announced Tuesday he would resign as he was overworked and exhausted managing the coronavirus crisis. Rudolf Anschober became health minister early last year when his Green party formed an unlikely coalition with Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s conservatives, just before coronavirus started spreading rapidly in Europe. “I’ve decided to resign from my job,” the 60-year-old told reporters. “I’m overworked and powered out,” he said, adding that 15 months on the […]
by Denise HRUBY VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Eight of those detained following Monday night’s terrorist attack in Vienna had previous convictions, including for terror offences, the Austrian interior minister said Thursday, as the investigation extended to Switzerland and a second, unnamed country. In the wake of the attack in which an Austrian-born man shot and killed four people in a popular nightlife area of central Vienna on Monday night, police arrested a total of 16 […]
by Jastinder KHERA VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Two people including one attacker were killed in central Vienna on Monday evening in what Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz described as a “repulsive terror attack”. Police said there was “one deceased person” and several injured, including one police officer. Meanwhile, one suspect was “shot and killed by police officers,” Vienna police said on their Twitter account. The attack had been carried out by “several suspects armed with rifles”, […]
VIENNA, Austria (AFP) — Austrian Interior Minster Karl Nehammer said late Monday that the shooting in central Vienna near a major synagogue appeared to be a terrorist attack and was ongoing. “It appears to be a terror attack” with several people injured and several attackers involved, Nehammer told public broadcaster ORF. Frequent sirens could be heard in central Vienna as emergency services responded to the incident. © Agence France-Presse
by Blaise GAUQUELIN Agence France-Presse PERTISAU, Austria (AFP) — With tender care, Sepp Rieser adorns the bulky heads of his reluctant cows with flower wreaths, adds some more fir twigs, and adjusts the large bells around their necks. “I’ve been doing this since I was a little boy,” Rieser says of the ancestral tradition in which cattle are decorated for their journey from the high Alpine Gramai pasture in Austria’s western Tyrol state, where they graze […]
Vienna, Austria (AFP) — The new coronavirus pandemic could hit drug markets just as the 2008 economic crisis did, exacerbating the risks for users, the UN drugs and crime agency warned Thursday. In its 2020 World Drug Report, the agency predicted an overall increase in drug use due to the pandemic, with a shift towards consuming cheaper products and injecting them, which carries greater risks. Countries were also likely to reduce drug-related budgets, it warned. […]
