Special to WorldTribune.com Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann resigned on May 9 amid the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe and a lack of support within his own Social Democrat party. “This country needs a chancellor who has the party’s full support,” Faymann said in a statement. Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, of coalition partner People’s Party, was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A 17-year-old Austrian who became a “poster girl” for Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) was reportedly killed by jihadists after attempting to escape. Samra Kesinovic is said to have been beaten to death after attempting to flee from Raqqa, ISIL’s de-facto capital in Syria, The Daily Mail reported on Nov. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Europe has been flooded by over 350,000 Middle East migrants in 2015. “Since the beginning of the year 2,342 migrants have died in the Mediterranean, 2,326 in the Channel of Sicily,” said Federico Soda, director of the International Organization for Migration’s Coordinating Office for the Mediterranean in Rome. “In the last few […]
By John J. Metzler VIENNA, Austria–The countdown started in Sarajevo in June 1914, the conflagration followed in August. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb nationalist set in motion a series of events in which the great European powers marched, with near lockstep, into a war which would devour seventeen million people, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The European Union plans to increase surveillance over illegal migration through a new unmanned aerial vehicle. The EU’s Frontex frontier surveillance force has demonstrated the S-100 UAV for operations in the Mediterranean Sea. The French Navy deployed the S-100, also produced in the United Arab Emirates, on the L’Adroit offshore […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The United Nations peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights has lost its leading contributor. Austria has announced that it would withdraw from the UN Disengagement Observers Force in the Golan Heights. The announcement on June 6, after months of consultations, was said to mark a major blow to the UN […]