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Austrian far right seeks path to power through rivals' blockade
VIENNA - Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) must on Monday seek to clear a path to power after its first ever parliamentary election...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Analysis-Mark Rutte's NATO mission: rally West, reassure East, help Ukraine
BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM - - NATO's next boss, Mark Rutte, will need all the coalition-building skills he honed as Dutch prime minister to hold...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Austria's rightward shift puts immigration in crosshairs
VIENNA - Picknicking with friends in the park after prayers at a Vienna mosque, Saima Arab, a 20-year-old pedicurist originally from...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Factbox-Austria election: An overview of political parties' immigration policies
Austria's far-right Freedom Party won on Sunday a parliamentary election for the first time after a campaign that leant heavily into...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Far right wins Austria election, boosting European right-wing surge
VIENNA - Austrian voters handed a first-ever general election victory to the far-right Freedom Party on Sunday, preliminary results...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Hopes fade of finding dozens of migrants missing after boat sinks off Canary Islands
EL HIERRO, Spain - Hopes of finding any of the 48 migrants missing since their boat sank near the Spanish island of El Hierro are...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
Explainer-Austria's far-right Freedom Party wins election, but will it govern?
VIENNA - The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) led by Herbert Kickl won Austria's parliamentary election on Sunday, initial projections...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Pope Francis, in Belgium, pressed on sexual abuse, women priests
BRUSSELS - Pope Francis was pressed firmly by Belgium's king and premier on Friday for more concrete action to address sexual abuse by...
Sep 28, 20243 min read
Acclaimed British actor Maggie Smith dies aged 89
LONDON - Britain's Maggie Smith, one of the most acclaimed actors of her generation with a career ranging from Shakespeare to Harry...
Sep 28, 20242 min read
Danish archaeologists unearth 50 Viking skeletons
COPENHAGEN - The excavation of a large Viking-era burial site in Denmark has unearthed 50 unusually well-preserved skeletons that...
Sep 28, 20242 min read
Spanish mother and daughter train bacteria to restore church frescoes
VALENCIA - As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across...
Sep 28, 20242 min read
Factbox-What's at stake in Georgia's October election?
TBILISI - The South Caucasus country of Georgia holds a parliamentary election on Oct. 26 that pits a government seen as leaning...
Sep 28, 20242 min read
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