News Archive for July 2014
Here you can find articles published in July 2014. Return to full archive here-
01 July
- Only a quarter of Austrian MPs full time
- President Fischer visits Latvia
- Prostitutes forced to live in cellar
- 'Justice data affair' mastermind sentenced
- Injured stork rescued from road accident
- Hahn again proposed as EU commissioner
- 'Warning signs' before teen murder
- Five puppies abandoned in a box
- Man and dog dead in Vienna fire
- Call for parliamentary investigation into Hypo
- Austrian resident jailed for terror camp training
- 'Murderer' ambassador targeted in prison
- 'Real woman' poster sparks backlash
- Teenager's body found in Hungary
- Animal 'hoarder' discovered near Villach
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02 July
- Novomatic granted Austrian casino licences
- EU Parliament elects Lunacek as VP
- Österreich newspaper caught faking photo
- Calls for reform to immigration card
- Fischer celebrates ten years in office
- Sharp rise in fatal road accidents
- FIFA extends bans on Austrian footballers
- Freedom Party calls for burqa ban
- Teenage murder victim identified
- Tyrolean SPÖ calls for cannabis legalization
- July 4th celebrations for Americans in Vienna
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03 July
- A Turkish expat fasts for Ramadan
- Average retirement age increases in Austria
- Space and time inspire Vienna artist
- Trade Union urges tax reform
- Terrorism concerns for Syria jihadists
- Austrian prisoners receive erection meds
- How Austria deals with begging
- Vienna airport security adequate says ministry
- Teens cautioned for 'sexting' images
- FPÖ poster opposes 'Islamification' of Europe
- Gmunden rapist gets 18 years for murder
- Four sentenced for neo-Nazi acts
- British man arrested for murder in Amstetten
- Bavarian bank suspected of Hypo fraud
- First Bitcoin ATM arrives in Austria
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04 July
- Accounts plundered by Vietnamese pirates
- Police shoot and kill armed robber
- Fischer seeks fast tax reform decision
- Abandoned pups found on Donauinsel
- Foreign name scuppers job chances
- First cancer immunotherapy for dogs
- Aliyev confession deemed 'a forgery'
- 'Older' woman robs Linz bank
- 12,600 vie for 1560 medical school places
- Pakistani smuggles 13 kg of heroin into Austria
- Phishing attack nets €130,000 in hours
- Van with 21 migrants stopped at Italian border
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07 July
- Burqa ban isn't enough says Strache
- Model airplane caused deadly fire
- Giant art gets up FPÖ's nose
- Stronach plans political comeback
- Ukraine Contact Group urges concrete progress
- Hypo law defended by parliament speaker
- Faymann ignores Spindelegger's warnings
- Smartphone app to help migrants integrate
- Ukrainian police chief hires hitman for Austria
- Austria audits off-shore gold reserves
- Lipizzaner horses roam Vienna's Burggarten
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08 July
- Cannabis grow-room found in Danube City
- No charges for Rainbow Parade attack man
- Parliament set to approve Hypo Alpe Adria plan
- Austria balks at introducing property tax
- Travellers warned about cycling drunk
- Brit tourists awake to naked man in room
- Private detective snoops on 'begging mafia'
- Austria risks losing out on overseas students
- Hahn nominated as EU Commissioner
- Life-ball poster 'not pornographic'
- Profile: Austrian President Heinz Fischer
- Mendez on the podium in Grafenegg
- 09 July
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10 July
- Vienna seeks ban on Internet puppy sales
- Bandidos biker club opens in Salzburg
- Kurz opposes burqa ban
- Grow-room found in Spittal an der Drau
- Rare piranha spawn in Vienna aquarium
- Art investors warned to avoid fake Walde
- Asylum children on the run in Austria
- US Secretary of State on flying visit to Vienna
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11 July
- Austria adopts new energy act
- Military company wins export bid down-under
- New law lets minority parties start probes
- Grasser sues former tax advisor
- Heart operation for young Syrian refugee
- Austrian cops can nab suspects in Italy
- Lena Hoschek: Inspired by 50's glamour
- Prison boss 'drove murderers to wedding'
- Black fingerprints
- Bundt cake brazenly taken from supermarket
- International drug ring smashed
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14 July
- Kerry and Zarif in second day of nuclear talks
- Bures to discuss German foreigner toll
- Man in coma since Donau Insel festival
- Vienna Burgtheater veteran Gert Voss dies
- Man arrested over phishing email scam
- Giant sausage stolen in the night
- Pez sends supply of sweets to Norwegian boy
- Muslim leader moots anti-discrimination law
- Church 'desecrated' by porn shoot
- Austrian climbers stun Chamonix competition
- Austrian ex-soldier arrested in Libya
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15 July
- Armed robbery at Klagenfurt McDonald's
- Boeing 747 loses wheel above Linz
- Austrians love to get nude on the beach
- World's first hydrogen fuel plant in Vienna
- Call for pre-trial detention for Grasser
- Minister rebukes states over asylum housing
- 'Essential' role in weapons mission
- Austria opposes new EU bio farm rules
- Austrian poker player wins half a million dollars
- Austria’s award winning spas
- Iran calls for nuclear deadline extension
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16 July
- Hunger striker protests pot prison penalty
- US and Austria agree to discuss spy allegations
- Austrian hotel has world's best wine list
- Husband found guilty of murdering Down's wife
- Deripaska expands Austrian involvement
- Anti-corruption raid on Carinthian FPÖ
- Austrian police warn of ‘Microsoft phone scam’
- World Bank hit by Hypo bank 'bail in'
- Austrian desserts vie for world heritage status
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17 July
- Burgenland's 'Stonehenge' discovery
- Silent disco 'too loud' for Salzburg
- Anti-Semitic posts: Kurz appeals to prosecutor
- Criticism of part-closure of Mauthausen
- Dispute over child support for gay couples
- 'Mannerschnitten domino' record attempt
- Austrian computer pioneer Zemanek dies
- The Ukrainians protesting in Vienna
- 18 July
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21 July
- OSCE: 'Didn't receive proper access to site'
- Ukrainian community mourns MH17 victims
- Traffic offenders fined €225 million last year
- Spindelegger wants to reform state railways
- 300 people evacuated from Innsbruck high-rise
- 'Sometimes the hardest thing to do is ask'
- Five states fail to fulfill asylum quota
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22 July
- Plans unveiled for Iron Curtain bike trail
- Netflix to launch in Austria in September
- The former golden boy who fell from grace
- Woman injured at Innsbruck Gaza demo
- FPÖ appoints 21-year-old to Vienna School Board
- Six Austrians killed in Syrian civil war
- Innsbruck fire not caused by technical fault
- German student Josef S found guilty
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23 July
- Bures wants €1 billion for broadband expansion
- German student freed after guilty verdict
- Finance ministry red-faced over wrong figures
- Search on for Austrian WWI memorabilia
- Vienna records new high in overnight stays
- Gap Inc. to launch in Austria
- Krauss 'not a role model for students'
- Allegations of police racism in Tyrol
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24 July
- Last-minute wage deal for rail workers
- Teenager dies after jet-ski accident
- Prison terms for illegal cigarette manufacturers
- Lugner and Spatzi prepare for engagement
- Fischer urges coalition to end 'bickering'
- Robots could take half of jobs in Austria
- Lawyers for German student lodge appeal
- Doctor sentenced for benefits fraud
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25 July
- Salzburg Festival kicks off amid budget worries
- AUA maintains Tel Aviv flight ban
- Rupprechter expresses doubts about TTIP
- Turks investigated after attack on Israeli team
- Refugees sent back to Italy
- Graffiti vandal gets 14 months in prison
- The pop-up forest restaurant
- War memorial dismantled by Graz council
- Krauss: 'Media reports are false'
- 26 July
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28 July
- 100 years since Austria declared war on Serbia
- 'I came for a boy and stayed for the lifestyle'
- Riot police with water cannon evict squatters
- Mikl-Leitner gives states asylum ultimatum
- Every fifth Austrian has 'migration background'
- Pensioner robbed while distracted by breasts
- Eight cheap things to do in Vienna this summer
- Bank payments accept only IBAN from August 1
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29 July
- Police arrest 19 people from Vienna squat
- Pavement explodes in central Vienna
- Cows kill German dog-walker in Tyrol
- Freeze on new asylum seekers in Traiskirchen
- Strache calls to expel folk who won't integrate
- Conditions for street walkers 'hardly improved'
- Topless metro rider rides 'green'
- TV journalist threatened on Facebook
- Austrian ISPs ordered to block The Pirate Bay
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30 July
- Siblings killed by driver on wrong side of road
- Vienna's Hotel Sans Souci most 'gay friendly'
- Austria recalls diplomats from Libya
- Conchita: Every day is like a birthday
- 43-year-old farm labourer killed by bull
- UN marks first day against human trafficking
- Over 800 police deployed for right-wing march
- Murder trial after brothel stabbing
- Trio abscond with 115 tons of stolen meat
- More housing sought for asylum seekers
- Austrian biotech firm's Parkinson's vaccine
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31 July
- Erste Bank quarterly losses exceed €1 billion
- Burgenland 'under water' after severe storm
- German hiker seriously injured in mountain fall
- Russian bank subsidiaries escape sanctions
- 500 policemen involved in eviction of squatters
- Vienna is 'the capital of spies'
- Seven convicted of incitement against Roma
- Austria's AMIC buys petrol stations in Ukraine
- The best words in Austrian German
- Asylum seeker dies from meningitis