Geography of Austria

Vienna police said on Dec. 26 that a "friendly" intelligence service had warned European capitals of the possibility of a shooting or bomb attack before New Year, prompting police across the continent to increase security measures. 

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Thousands of asylum-seekers broke through police lines at Austria's main border crossing with Hungary and set off on foot for Vienna on Friday, newswires reported.

Austrian and Hungarian police have launched a joint investigation into the death of 71 migrants, including eight women and four children, in a refrigeration truck in Austria.

An Austrian police official said at a news conference in the town of Eisenstadt that one of the people arrested in Hungary as driver of the truck is a Bulgarian national.

The Culture Minister, Ionut Vulpescu, who has participated in the 70th memorial ceremony since the liberation of the Mauthausen (Austria) concentration camp, deems the repeat of the Holocaust and World War II's horrors should not be allowed to repeat.

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VIENNA- The Vienna-based Wiener Stadtische insurance group organized an exhibition on Serbian architecture 'City as a regional context for architecture' in the capital of Austria.

The retrospective includes the forerunners of modern architecture in the period of 1920-1930 and the building momentum of 1945 to 1980, when modernism was accepted as the official "state" style.

Smuggler attempts to leave country with 100 artifacts

BELGRADE -- Serbian customs and police officers have discovered about 100 archaeological objects in a van searched at the Horgos border crossing in the north.

VIENNA/BELGRADE - Ivica Dacic, Serbia's first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, will present in Vienna on Tuesday the priorities of Serbia's 2015 OSCE chairmanship at a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, reads a release issued by the Serbian ministry of foreign affairs.

VIENNA - Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic will visit Vienna on Friday to meet with Austrian Minister of Defence and Sports Gerald Klug.

This will be Gasic's first official visit abroad since his appointment as defence minister.

MAUTHAUSEN - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic ended a two-day working visit to Austria on Friday by visiting the Mauthausen Memorial, where where he laid a wreath at the memorial monument to Yugoslav victims.