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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Austria

US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performs at the Groupama Stadium as part of The Eras Tour, in Decines-Charpieu, eastern France, June 2, 2024. (Jeff Pachoud / AFP)
August 29, 2024, 5:05 pm
Foiled Taylor Swift concert plot aimed to kill ‘tens of thousands,’ says CIA official
Austrian teen radicalized by Islamic State prepared explosives, knives to attack 30,000 Swifties who had been expected outside pop star’s aborted Vienna show
By STEFANIE DAZIO
Security guards remove barriers in front of the Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, on August 8, 2024, after the three concerts of US mega-star Taylor Swift were canceled following the arrest of an Islamic State sympathizer in connection with an terror plot. (Alex Halada/AFP)
August 9, 2024, 1:37 pm
Iraqi teen is 3rd suspect held over ISIS plot to attack Taylor Swift concert in Vienna
Two other Austrian youths aged 17 and 15 were detained earlier in the week after evidence found they planned to carry out attacks with knives and explosives
By Reuters
US singer Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Paris La Defense Arena as part of her The Eras Tour, in Nanterre, northwestern France, on May 9, 2024. (Julien de Rosa / AFP)
August 8, 2024, 2:19 pm
Austrian official: IS supporter planned suicide attack at Taylor Swift show
Suspect confessed to terror plot, ‘thinks it is right to kill infidels’; jihadi material found at home of 2nd suspect, who was employed at venue days before now-canceled concerts
By Agencies
Taylor Swift performs at Wembley Stadium as part of her Eras Tour on Friday, June 21, 2024 in London. (Photo by Scott A Garfitt/Invision/AP)
August 7, 2024, 9:21 pm
Teen planning attacks on Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna nabbed by police
19-year-old who pledged allegiance to Islamic State arrested along with one other suspect, Austrian interior ministry says
By AP
Palestinians sit in a vehicle loaded with sacks of humanitarian aid outside the distribution center of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 3, 2024. (AFP)
May 18, 2024, 3:14 pm
Austria says will resume funding to UNRWA, but ‘a lot of trust has been squandered’
Vienna says it analyzed refugee agency’s action plan after Israeli allegations of employees’ involvement on Oct. 7; says some cash will go ‘to improve internal control mechanisms’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Lana Bastašić meets readers at a literary event in Berlin, Germany, on September 14, 2023. (Elena Ternovaja/Wikimedia Commons)
February 1, 2024, 3:26 pm
Austrian literary festival drops Bosnian author who protested criticism of Oct. 7
Separately, a children’s book fair in Italy indicates it will ignore a petition to boycott Israel signed by top artists
By Canaan Lidor
Portrait of Fräulein Lieser by Gustav Klimt, 1917 (Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144566137)
January 27, 2024, 3:58 am
Gustav Klimt painting resurfaces in Austria after almost 100 years
Last seen in 1925, portrait was commissioned by wealthy Jewish family, painted in 1917 shortly before artist’s death; work estimated at $33-55 million, to be auctioned in April
By AFP
An exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, September 27, 2012. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)
November 24, 2023, 7:32 am
Two streets still named for Nazis in Hitler’s Austrian hometown
Mathausen Committee urges Braunau to rename streets honoring Josef Reiter, a party faithful, and Franz Resl, a ‘Nazi fanatical who hated Jews’
By AFP
Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna, Austria, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Theresa Wey)
November 3, 2023, 5:35 am
Austria increases payments to Holocaust survivors for first time in decades
Some 2,500 survivors to receive direct compensation of 5,000 euros this year, which Claims Conference says ‘will go a long way for some of the more vulnerable’
By Toby Axelrod
Students at the Herta Reich grammar school in Austria send a musical message of peace with the Hebrew song 'Hevenu Shalom Alechem.' (Courtesy)
October 17, 2023, 8:04 pm
Students in small Austrian town sing message of peace
Students at grammar school named after Holocaust survivor Herta Reich send a musical message to Israel in YouTube video
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit buildings and cars in the southern city of Ashdod, October 9, 2023. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
October 9, 2023, 5:29 pm
EU to review aid to Palestinians following Hamas attack on Israel
Source indicates aid will still be maintained; Germany, Austria separately say they’re suspending and reviewing aid to West Bank and Gaza
By AFP, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
An exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house, front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on September 27, 2012. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson, File)
October 2, 2023, 4:35 pm
Work begins in Austria on turning Hitler’s birthplace into police station
Move approved in 2019 seeks to make site in Braunau Am Inn unattractive for admirers of the Nazi dictator
By AP
A man points his finger at a screen showing the chosen plan for the architectural redesign of Adolf Hitler's birth house, during a press conference at the Interior ministry in Vienna, Austria on June 2, 2020. (Joe Klamar/AFP)
September 14, 2023, 5:08 am
Austrian group asks to place Holocaust exhibit at Hitler birth site
Friends of Yad Vashem in Austria seeks to display information about Righteous Among the Nations at dictator’s former home, as government turns building into police station
By ToI Staff
An image of Israel and the US's test launch of the Arrow 3 missile defense system on July 28, 2019. (Defense Ministry)
July 5, 2023, 8:58 am
Switzerland, Austria to join European air defense project using Israel’s Arrow 3
Neutral, non-NATO members say their participation in Sky Shield Initiative, created in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, won’t entail involvement in armed conflict
By AP
This picture provided by the Austrian Interior Ministry on June 29, 2023 shows secured weapons, objects and ammunitions and swastika flags. (BMI/Gerd Pachauer via AP)
July 1, 2023, 9:09 am
Austria seizes vast trove of weapons, swastika flags in raid on far-right biker gang
Haul includes 35 long firearms, 25 submachine guns, 100 pistols, 1,000 weapons components, 400 signal weapons, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, grenade launcher, Nazi memorabilia
By AFP
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