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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 467

Austria

The leader of Austria's Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, addresses a news conference, in Vienna, Austria, on January 7, 2025. (AP/ Heinz-Peter Bader)
January 7, 2025, 8:28 pm
Far-right leader tasked with forming Austria government pledges to ‘govern honestly’
Herbert Kickl – whose Freedom Party won September election, but was initially shunned by other factions – says he is prepared for new elections if coalition talks fail
By Philipp Jenne and Geir Moulson
The leader of the far-right Freedom party (FPOe) Herbert Kickl leaves after talks with Austria's President on January 6, 2025 at the presidential Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. (Joe Klamar / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 11:09 pm
For the first time since WWII, Austria’s far right gets mandate to lead government
Anti-immigration, pro-Russia, eurosceptic Freedom Party, led by populist Herbert Kickl, gets chance to form government; was founded by former Nazi officer in 1950s
By Philipp Jenne and Geir Moulson
Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen gives a press statement at the Presidential Chancellery after his meeting with Austrian Chancellor and leader of Austria's People's Party (OeVP) Karl Nehammer (not pictured) in Vienna on January 5, 2025 (Photo by Alex HALADA / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 11:58 am
Far right set to be tasked with forming new government in Austria
President to meet with Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl after chancellor resigned following collapse of coalition talks between conservatives and center left
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
Syrian families arrive to cross into Syria from Turkey at the Cilvegozu border gate, near the town of Antakya, southern Turkey, December 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Metin Yoksu)
December 9, 2024, 5:08 pm
Throngs of Syrian refugees start returning from Turkey, Lebanon after Assad’s fall
People express joy over end of brutal regime, as Turkish officials hope many will return home; Germany and Austria suspend Syrian asylum requests
By Agencies and ToI Staff
MP of Austria's Freedom Party (FPOe) Walter Rosenkranz delivers a speech after his election as new parliament president in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna on October 24, 2024. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
November 24, 2024, 6:53 pm
Austrian far-right party shows strength with state election win in Styria
Freedom Party’s victory is show of force for the Russia-friendly faction, adds to pressure on parties trying to form a national government
By Francois Murphy
Screen capture from video of far-right speaker of Austria's lower house of parliament FPO's Walther Rosenkranz faces Jewish protesters who stopped him from laying a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Vienna, November 8, 2024. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 10, 2024, 8:04 am
Jewish students prevent Austrian far-right speaker from laying Kristallnacht wreath
Forming cordon, Vienna protesters tell FPO party’s Rosenkranz ‘we do not want you to spit in our ancestors’ faces’; he eventually leaves, saying he’ll yield to their ‘violence’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Herbert Kickl (C), leader and top candidate of right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) is celebrated by supporters at the party's election event after exit poll numbers were announced at the Stiegl-Ambulanz restaurant in Vienna, Austria on September 29, 2024. (Alex Halada/AFP)
October 1, 2024, 8:52 pm
Disgruntled over immigration, ailing economy, Austrians handed victory to far-right party
Despite its winning 29% of vote, rivals refuse to enter coalition with Freedom Party, with a video surfacing on voting day of members at recent funeral where Nazi SS song was sung
By Louis van Boxel-Woolf
Herbert Kickl, leader and top candidate of right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe), takes part in a TV debate at the parliament after exit poll numbers were announced in Vienna on September 29, 2024. (Alex HALADA / AFP)
September 30, 2024, 7:23 pm
After election win, Austrian far right seeks path to power through rivals’ blockade
Herbert Kickl led his Freedom Party to win biggest slice of votes, but the 29% he scored requires cooperating with other parties, almost all of whom say they won’t work with him
By Francois Murphy
Head of the Freedom Party (FPOE) Herbert Kickl gestures during his speech at a final election campaign event at St. Stephen's square in Vienna, Austria, Friday, September 27, 2024, ahead of the country's national election two days later. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)
September 29, 2024, 9:13 pm
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party set for historic win, but chance to govern unclear
Projection sees Freedom Party winning 29% of vote after it campaigned to suspend asylum, warm up to Russia — but moderate parties say they won’t form coalition with its leader
By STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
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
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