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Austria's parliament passes law banning headscarves for schoolgirls under age of 14

Austria's parliament passed a law on Thursday banning schoolgirls under the age of 14 from wearing a headscarf. The coalition government, made up of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), the Social ...
World Socialist Web Site

Austria: Eleven dead in Graz school shooting

Memorial at the entrance of the Borg-Gymnasium after the shooting on June 10, 2025 [Photo by Armin Ademovic / Wikimedia / CC BY 4.0] On June 10, a gunman killed ten people and seriously injured eleven ...
Monocle

Is Austria losing its status as a top ski nation?

Having previously cancelled compulsory winter sports for schoolchildren, Austria is debating changing tack to bring young people back to the slopes of the ski-centric nation. The 2024 manifesto of the ...
Reuters

Austrian town officials resign after Nazi basement film

VIENNA (Reuters) - Two conservative town council members in eastern Austria have resigned from their posts and left the People's Party after a documentary film showed them singing and toasting one ...
CNN

At stake in this election:

Austria called for early elections on September 9th due to rifts in the governing Freedom Party/Austrian People's Party coalition. The coalition collpase became final when former Vice Chancellor ...