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Identities | Athens | To May 8

The Museum of Cycladic Art (cycladic.gr) presents "Identities: Gender, Diversity, Discrimination," the first of three exhibitions it is hosting in cooperation with the Graz Museum in Austria and the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation in Nicosia on the theme "ReThinking." A part of the "ReInHerit" project, funded by the European Union's Horizon2020 program, "ReThinking" seeks to address the issu

Film on Slovenian language in Austria wins audience award in Graz

Graz – Verschwinden (Vanishing), a documentary by Andrina Mračnikar, the Austrian director and screenwriter of Slovenian descent, about the Slovenian language disappearing from everyday life in Carinthia, has won the audience award at the Diagonale film festival in Graz.

Film on vanishing Slovenian language in Austria featured in Graz

Graz – A documentary by Andrina Mračnikar, the Austrian director and screenwriter of Slovenian descent, which deals with the vanishing of the Slovenian language from everyday life in Carinthia, will be featured on Saturday and Sunday at the Diagonale film festival in Graz.

One Killed and 11 Injured in a Crash between a Train and a Bus in Austria

VIENNA (Reuters) - A train collided with a commuter bus in Graz, Austria's second-biggest city, killing the bus driver and injuring 11 other people on Tuesday morning, police said.

Eight of the 11 were seriously injured and the numbers could rise, a spokesman for the police in the southern province of Styria said.

Austrian woman raised wrong child for 27 years!

An Austrian court has ordered a hospital to pay over 90,000 euros for handing a baby to the wrong parents more than two decades ago.
Doris Gruenwald, 26, discovered the error after a blood test four years ago revealed that she was not the biological child of Evelin and Josef Gruenwald. She was subsequently adopted. The Gruenwalds’ natural child has not been found.

Austrian pensioners arrive on Rhodes for “vay-cay”

Seven airplanes transported a total of 1,500 pensioners from Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz in Austria, to the Greek island of Rhodes.

 

The specific program was completed due to the efforts of Rhodes Tourism Directorate, Tourism services on the island, and Austrian carriers. The aim was to extend the high-season of the island.