Tag: #Vienna
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Belarus leader visits Austria, seeking closer EU ties
Vienna, Nov 12 (AFP/APP): Belarus’s isolated leader Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday visits Austria, marking his first trip to an EU member in more than three years as he seeks closer ties amid tensions with Russia. Lukashenko will meet Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen in his first official visit to the small Alpine nation following…
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Austria conservatives, Greens to enter coalition negotiations
Vienna, Nov 11 (AFP/APP): Austria’s Sebastian Kurz announced Monday his conservatives would enter exclusive coalition talks with the Green party, taking a step closer to forming a government following a September election. In an apparent about-turn after Kurz’s previous administration with the far-right came crashing down, the 33-year-old said his People’s Party (OeVP) “will enter…
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Argentina’s Grossi elected as UN’s nuclear watchdog head
Vienna, Oct 29 (AFP/APP): Argentina’s Rafael Grossi was elected on Tuesday to head the UN’s nuclear watchdog, which is tasked in particular with monitoring the implementation of the increasingly shaky Iran nuclear deal. “With Rafael Grossi securing a qualified majority in the board of governors, IAEA has taken a decisive step towards electing its director…
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Former Austria far-right leader leaves politics
Vienna, Oct 1 (AFP/APP):The disgraced former leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) announced Tuesday “a total withdrawal from politics and public life” after scandals centred around him sent the party plummeting in snap elections. Heinz-Christian Strache, who led the FPOe for 14 years, was forced to resign in May as vice-chancellor and party chief…
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Austria: A few favourite things
Vienna, Sept 29 (AFP/APP):Austria holds snap elections on Sunday after a corruption scandal in May prompted the spectacular collapse of the right-wing coalition government. Nevertheless conservative former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, 33, is expected to come out on top in the poll. Here are some facts about the landlocked and wealthy Alpine country of 8.8 million…
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Iran uses advanced centrifuges in new nuclear deal breach: IAEA
Vienna, Sept 26 (AFP/APP):Iran has started using advanced models of centrifuges to enrich uranium, the UN’s nuclear watchdog said Thursday, in a new breach of the faltering 2015 deal with world powers. Advanced centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz facility “were accumulating, or had been prepared to accumulate, enriched uranium”, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said…