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Police: Cannabis on busy Vienna thoroughfare
VIENNA (AP) — Vienna police have shut down an unusual cannabis "ring" — hemp growing along the Austrian capital's busy Ring Street encircling the city's center. Alerted by a news article about the illegal crop, police officers on Friday... -
Austria may delay peacekeepers' withdrawal from Golan
ReutersVIENNA, June 18 (Reuters) - Austria may withdraw its peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights more slowly than first planned to allow the United Nations extra time to arrange an orderly handover, Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said on Tuesday....Tags: Ban Ki-moon, Austria, Werner Faymann, Israel, United Nations
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Austria corruption crackdown spreading its net wide
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Suspicions of bribery at Austria's central bank have dragged it into a nationwide crackdown on corruption that has shaken confidence in the country's highest ranks of power and prestige. Vienna prosecutors this week charged nine...Tags: Lawyers, Austria, European Union, Justice System, Parliament
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Austrian central banker charged in bribe case
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Vienna prosecutors charged nine people on Thursday, including the deputy governor of the Austrian National Bank, over suspected bribes in banknote contracts with Azerbaijan and Syria. Wolfgang Duchatczek, 63, and the other suspects...Tags: Lawyers, Government, Azerbaijan, Justice System, Executive Branch
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Salzburg Festival lets Pereira go early to La Scala
ReutersVIENNA, June 12 (Reuters) - The Salzburg Festival has agreed to let director Alexander Pereira go early after falling out over his new post as manager of Milan opera house La Scala. Pereira, who upset Austria's cultural establishment by taking on the...Tags: Festive Events, Siemens, Austria, Entertainment, Music
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Floods could cost Germany 12 billion euros in economic damage, warns Fitch
ReutersBERLIN (Reuters) - Floods that have devastated parts of southern and eastern Germany could briefly impede growth in Europe's biggest economy, an industry body said, while ratings agency Fitch said the economic cost could be as high as 12 billion euros....Tags: Natural Disasters, Germany, Insurance, Weather Reports, Berlin (Germany)
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Austria begins withdrawing peacekeepers from Golan
ReutersVIENNA, June 11 (Reuters) - Austria has begun withdrawing peacekeepers from the Golan Heights, winding down a four-decade mission due to spillover fighting from the Syrian civil war, the defence ministry said. A Reuters journalist on the Golan said...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Government, Austria, Armed Forces, United Nations
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READER SUBMITTED: Burlington Resident Honored For Academic Achievement At Providence College
BurlingtonEliza Mandzik, a resident of Burlington, who was awarded a bachelor's degree during Providence College commencement ceremonies held on May 19, was recently honored for her academic achievements. Mandzik graduated summa cum laude and received the...Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Graduation, Social Sciences, Awards and Prizes
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Soccer-Austrian championship results and standings
ReutersMay 26 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Austrian championship matches on Sunday Sunday, May 26 Rapid Vienna 3 Ried 0 Salzburg 3 Austria Vienna 0 Sturm Graz 0 SC Wiener Neustadt 3 Mattersburg 0 FC Admira Wacker Modling 1 WAC/ST....Tags: Austria
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INTERVIEW-Austria says peackeepers may quit Golan if EU arms rebels
ReutersBy Michael Shields VIENNA, May 21 (Reuters) - Austria may pull its peacekeeping troops from the Golan Heights, evacuating the U.N. buffer zone, its defence minister warned on Tuesday, as Syria and Israel exchanged fire across a long dormant frontline now...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Lebanon, European Union, Weaponry, Austria
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Harbor Springs Area Historical Society receives competitive grant
HARBOR SPRINGS — Soon, a different kind of bicentennial war exhibit will open at the Harbor Springs Area Historical Society, thanks in part to an $8,000 grant from the Michigan Humanities Council that the society received May 10. The exhibit,...
Tags: Arts, War of 1812, Museums, University of Michigan, Arts and Culture
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Vienna for gay travelers
VIENNA, March 29 -- Vienna's opulent Habsburg-era coffee houses, architecture, palaces, operas, and other cultural institutions give the city an air of imperial grandeur. Yet the Austrian capital with 1.7 million residents is not stuck in the past,...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Entertainment, Music, The Third Man (movie), Dining and Drinking
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