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Residents and rescuers check the destruction after an overnight Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Kafra, on February 29, 2024 (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
February 29, 2024, 3:17 pm
Report: US fears Israel will launch spring offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon
Biden official says expanded air campaign could lead to ground op; IDF says ‘suspicious’ object downed after sirens blare in Haifa; IDF strikes Hezbollah rocket launchers
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 2, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 10, 2023, 2:50 pm
In phone blitz, Foreign Minister Cohen speaks with five European counterparts
Britain’s top envoy accepts invitation to visit Israel; minister also talks with peers in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Estonia, discusses improving ties and regional issues
By ToI Staff
Members of Israeli Zaka Rescue and Recovery team clean blood from the site of a shooting attack In Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 8, 2022, 11:52 am
Top foreign diplomats, envoys condemn ‘appalling’ terror attack in Tel Aviv
Antony Blinken says US ‘stands resolutely’ with Israel ‘in the face of senseless terrorism and violence’ after 2 killed, numerous others hurt; German FM brands assailant a ‘coward’
By ToI Staff
Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announces that he is quitting politics, two months after stepping down as leader amid corruption allegations, during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)
December 2, 2021, 3:36 pm
Ex-Austrian chancellor Kurz quits politics: ‘I’m neither a saint nor a criminal’
Sebastian Kurz stepped down two months ago in the wake of allegations of bribery, corruption; says birth of child motivated retirement from political life
By Frank Jordans
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a video conference with Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babic about the COVID-19 pandemic, November 30, 2021. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
November 30, 2021, 6:07 pm
Bennett defends ‘drastic steps’ against Omicron in call with Austrian, Czech leaders
PM argues phone tracking, closure of borders necessitated by continued uncertainty over new coronavirus strain, touts boosters as effective tool to combat pandemic
By ToI Staff
A demonstrator holds a mock-up of a gallows as he take part in a rally held by Austria's far-right Freedom Party FPOe against the measures taken to curb the coronavirus pandemic, at Maria Theresien Platz square in Vienna, Austria on November 20, 2021 (Joe Klamar / AFP)
November 22, 2021, 8:09 am
As Austria starts lockdown, minister says protests include far-right, neo-Nazis
Interior minister warns country’s anti-coronavirus protest scene is radicalizing.; just under 66% of population fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in Western Europe
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS
Security personnel check for vaccination passes of visitors arriving at the Christmas Market in front of Vienna's city hall in Vienna, Austria, on November 15, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
November 19, 2021, 1:12 pm
Austria to enter nationwide lockdown, mandate COVID vaccination
Move comes after the European country imposed a closure only for the unvaccinated; ‘We do not want a fifth wave… or a sixth or seventh wave,’ Chancellor Schallenberg says
By AP
A patient is vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus on the national holiday in the Vienna Imperial Palace in the marble hall in Vienna, Austria, October 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File)
November 14, 2021, 6:36 pm
Austria orders nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, starting Monday
Move aims at curbing alarming rate of COVID infections; it applies to 2 million people, who could face $1,660 fines
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Lights illuminate the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial after the inauguration ceremony, in Vienna, Austria, on November 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)
November 9, 2021, 11:31 pm
On Kristallnacht anniversary, Austria unveils memorial wall with 64,440 names
At inauguration ceremony in Vienna for Holocaust monument, chancellor says: ‘We looked away for too long, until we realized our role as perpetrators’
By Agencies
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Oct. 22, 2021 (Aris Oikonomou, Pool Photo via AP)
October 23, 2021, 8:59 am
‘You are a monument’: Merkel gets standing ovation at her final EU summit
Council chief: EU summit ‘without Angela is like Rome without Vatican, Paris without Eiffel tower’; Obama sends video tribute; German chancellor warns of bloc’s future challenges
By Alex Pigman
Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg (C) arrives to meet Austria's President at Ballhausplatz in Vienna, on October 10, 2021. (Photo by ALEX HALADA / AFP)
October 11, 2021, 2:58 am
After quitting amid corruption probe, Austria’s Kurz names FM as successor
Alexander Schallenberg accepts ‘enormously challenging task,’ set to be sworn in as new Austrian leader on Monday; Kurz to stay on as party chief, try to clear his name
By Julia ZAPPEI
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