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NEWS ABOUT: Austria

Austria stories: 76 news summaries

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(Newser) - Pez is suing a California store and museum over an 8-foot-tall dispenser custom-made for the establishment—and thus not sanctioned by the Austrian candy-maker, the San Jose Mercury News reports. “From a branding perspective, I think Pez should embrace the Dosses and the museum, instead of trying to attack... More »

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California • museum • Austria • Bay Area • statue • memorabilia • civil lawsuits • candy company • PEZ • dispenser

(Newser) - A difficult-to-pronounce wine from Austria is “one of summer’s great, unlikely pleasures,” Eric Asimov writes in the New York Times. Grüner veltliner has risen above the pack of other Germanic wines to become a favorite in America, thanks to its bracing dryness. It "can... More »

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alcohol • Austria • riesling • Eric Asimov • white wine • grüner veltliner • dry

Madoff May
Have Paid Off Austrian Banker

She's accused of sending him investors' cash, getting kickbacks

Jul 3, 09 2:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of Bank Medici is being probed by authorities in the US, the UK, and her native Austria over alleged kickbacks she received from Bernard Madoff, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sonja Kohn is believed to have pocketed $40 million in return for turning three funds she managed into... More »

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Austria • Ponzi scheme • kickbacks • Bernard Madoff • Sonja Kohn • Bank Medici • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities • Madoff Securities International • fund manager

(Newser) - An Italian woman who cheated fate when she missed her flight on the doomed Air France jet has been killed in a car crash, the London Times reports. Johanna Ganthaler and her husband were late to the Rio airport on May 31 and caught another flight the next day. The... More »

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France • Atlantic Ocean • Brazil • Austria • car crash • plane crash • Air France Flight 447 • coincidence

(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl has “renewed strength” after beginning a relationship with her bodyguard, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl, 42, was held captive in an Austrian cellar and raped by her father, Josef, for 24 years; she and her six children by her father are now under police protection. “They are... More »

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rape • Austria • love • incest • bodyguard • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • protective custody

 India Riots Bust Out 
 After Austria Temple Killing 

Punjab erupts in violence after Sikh guru's murder

May 25, 09 7:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Riots have broken out in dozens of cities across the Indian state of Punjab after a Sikh guru was killed in a temple in Austria yesterday. Thousands of protesters have damaged public property and set trains on fire, and in one city four people were injured when police fired on... More »

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India • Austria • Punjab • violence • riots • Sikh • religious violence • Manmohan Singh

APPRECIATION

Haneke Wins at Cannes for His Finest Work

White Ribbon 'will
be discussed for
decades to come'

May 25, 09 5:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even in a vintage year for Cannes, Michael Haneke's new film The White Ribbon stood head and shoulders above the competition, writes Xan Brooks of the Guardian. The Austrian director has time and again missed out on the festival's top prize, but his "icy black-and-white" pastoral  set in pre-WWI ... More »

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film • Germany • Cannes Film Festival • Austria • film director • World War I • movies • period drama • Michael Haneke

 Gun Battle in Vienna 
 Temple Wounds 6 

Shooters stormed into temple with knives, gun

May 24, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mid-afternoon shootout between members of two families at an Indian religious temple in Vienna left nine people seriously injured, Reuters reports. Authorities arrested six men who barged into the Sikh temple with knives and a gun. The men, who number among the wounded, apparently were extremists who opposed the... More »

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Austria • Vienna • Sikh • shooting • shootout • temple • gunfire

David Duke Goes to the Birds in Austria

Former Ku Klux Klan leader runs nature photography business

May 15, 09 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Duke appears to have traded in burning crosses for a high-powered camera lens, reports the Telegraph, which tracked the former Ku Klux Klan honcho to a village in Austria. The onetime US presidential candidate now sells photos of birds and other wildlife he’s taken as he traipses through... More »

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Czech Republic • Louisiana • Austria • Ku Klux Klan • Adolf Hitler • right wingers • David Duke • wildlife photography

(Newser) - Software that would automatically rate the credibility of blogs on a scale from highly credible to “little credible” is in the works in Austria, Ars Technica reports. The program analyzes the distribution of words in successive blog posts and also compares topics against stories covered in the mainstream media... More »

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media • blogosphere • Internet • Austria • blogger • software applications • credibility

OPINION

'Fatuous'
Obama Does
US No Favors: Krauthammer

Big talk yields little help from European allies

Apr 10, 09 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is out in the world, "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray" and badmouthing past American actions, and to what end? Charles Krauthammer, writing in the New York Times, doesn't see any satisfactory answers. "I'm not against gift-giving in international relations," he writes.... More »

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Russia • North Korea • Europe • Austria • disarmament • foreign policy • Guantanamo prisoners • G20 • President Obama • Charles Krauthammer

Deported Ex-Nazi Goes Free in Austria

Concentration camp guard can't be prosecuted there

Mar 20, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Austria says there’s no way it can prosecute Josias Kumpf, the 83-year-old ex-Nazi guard the US shipped its way yesterday, Reuters reports. “We have always pointed out to the United States that he cannot be charged here,” said an Austrian justice ministry spokeswoman. Kumpf has admitted to... More »

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Wisconsin • Austria • deportation • Nazi • Nazi collaborators • Josias Kumpf

 Fritzl 
 Heads 
 to Plush 
 Psych Cell 

He'll have color TV, computer and maybe a pet in unit of Viennese hospital

Mar 20, 09 4:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Austrian monster dad Josef Fritzl will spend his days in far plusher accommodations than his daughter, who was repeatedly raped in her cellar prison for 24 years. Fritzl has been sentenced to life and remanded to a secure psychiatric unit of a Viennese hospital because of what the judge called... More »

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rape • Austria • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • life sentence • psychiatric unit • Howard Stern Grid

US Deports Former Nazi Guard to Austria

83-year-old Wis. resident took part in massacre of 42K

Mar 19, 09 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp who participated in a mass slaughter of prisoners has been deported from Wisconsin to Austria, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Immigration officials today sent Josias Kumpf, 83, back to his homeland, where his fate is unclear. He had lived in the US... More »

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Wisconsin • Austria • deportation • concentration camp • Nazi • Nazi collaborators • Josias Kumpf

 Fritzl Gets 
 Life Sentence 

Incest dad found guilty on all charges

Mar 19, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in a secure psychiatric facility, the BBC reports. Jurors found Fritzl guilty on charges that included rape, incest, murder, and enslavement after he locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, raped her... More »

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murder • rape • Austria • guilty • enslavement • incest • verdict • Josef Fritzl • life sentence

 Fritzl: 'I 
 Can't Go 
 Back and 
 Change It' 

Jury to decide case today

Mar 19, 09 5:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Monster dad Josef Fritzl apologized "from the bottom of my heart" today for keeping his daughter locked in a cellar as a sex slave for 24 years, then added: "I can't go back and change it." Fritzl, 73, made his remarks as an Austrian jury was about... More »

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murder • rape • Austria • trial • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Kerstin Fritzl • Rosemarie Fritzl

(Newser) - An intriguing report has surfaced in the aftermath of Josef Fritzl’s surprise guilty plea, the Times of London reports. Though unconfirmed by lawyers on both sides, various outlets say Fritzl’s daughter, Elisabeth, secretly attended much of the Austrian court proceedings. In fact, one source says her presence may... More »

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Austria • guilty plea • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Gets Counseling 
 for 'Ordeal of Trial' 

How about us?

Mar 17, 09 1:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Austria’s most infamous incestuous rapist has access to counseling at the prison where he is housed "to help him through the ordeal of the trial," a prison official said. But the official stressed that Josef Fritzl's care was not out of the ordinary. “There is no... More »

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prison • mental health • Austria • murder trial • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Daughter 
 Gives Video Testimony 

Will be held on camera; press faces jail for reporting

Mar 17, 09 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The judge in Josef Fritzl’s incest trial kicked press and the public out of the court today ahead of Elisabeth Fritzl’s video testimony in a move to protect her identity, the Guardian reports. Her recorded evidence is being played “in small portions,” a court official said,... More »

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rape • Austria • sexual abuse • trial • court • testimony • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

 Fritzl Admits 
 Rape, Denies Murder 

He'll also respond to daughter's taped testimony

Mar 16, 09 6:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Under the cloud of a media frenzy that required a no-fly zone, Josef Fritzl pleaded guilty today in an Austrian courthouse to rape and incest charges linked to the 24-year imprisonment of his daughter, the BBC reports. But the 74-year-old, who entered court with his face covered, pleaded not guilty... More »

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crime • Austria • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • criminal trial

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