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- Austrian man kills five family members after investment loss
AN AUSTRIAN man who lost a six-figure sum in bad investments has admitted killing five family members with an axe to spare them the 'disgrace' of financial ruin. The 39-year-old public relations consultant, identified only as Reinhard S, walked into a
- Austrian axe man kills 5 family members
The body of the daughter was found in a taproom and the wife's body was found in the bathroom in Reinhard's home in Vienna. After killing his wife and daughter, Reinhard drove about 200 kilometers to the city Ansfelden, where is near city Linz, the
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The Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer became one of the most loved and admired operatic idols in Italy during the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies. Although she sang all over Europe and America, from London to Vienna, from San Francisco to Buenos Aires, it was
- Bachelet destaca buenas relaciones con Austria
Santiago de Chile, 14 may (PL) La presidenta de Chile, Michelle Bachelet, calific hoy la visita del canciller Federal de Austria, Alfred Gusenbauer, como muestra de amistad y apoyo recproco entre pases que quieren aportar a los grandes temas de la
- "Snake man" slithers out of Austrian prison cell
VIENNA (Reuters) - A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday. The 19-year old Kosovan, who weighed less than 55 kilos was being held at the prison in Linz for entering the
- Hungary Petrochemicals Report Q2 2008
Published By: Business Monitor International Page Count: 47 Order Code: R302-3094 Description The possibility that Hungary?s oil and gas company MOL could be the object of a hostile takeover fromAustrian rival OMV continues to cause uncertainty in the
- Austrian man brutally murders entire family...
Bojan Pancevski in Vienna A 39-year-old Austrian man walked into a police station today covered in blood and confessed to the 'extremely brutal' axe murders of his wife, their 7-year-old daughter, his parents and his father-in-law. The fresh family
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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies, Austria"s 1955 State Treaty declared the country "permanently neutral" as a condition of Soviet military withdrawal. Neutrality, once ingrained as part of the Austrian cultural identity, has been called into question since the Soviet collapse and Austria"s increasingly prominent role in European affairs. A prosperous country, Austria joined the European Union in 1995 and the euro monetary system in 1999.
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