Gerhard Karner
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- Oct 18
Austrian Airlines flight diverted to Sofia after bomb threat, no danger found
Flight OS82 landed in Sofia on Sunday, 18 October, after a bomb threat, with Bulgarian MiG-29 jets escorting the Airbus A320 down. Checks found no danger, and the flight reached Vienna in the early hours of Monday, 19 October.
- Oct 9
Ukrainska Pravda investigator Mykhailo Tkach freed in Vienna after 12 hours in custody
Mykhailo Tkach was detained on 8 October while tracking former prosecutor general Ruslan Kravchenko. Austria's interior minister says four Ukrainians, including Tkach and his cameraman, were arrested this week on espionage suspicion.
- Jul 22
Austria opens €20m police station in Hitler's birthplace to end neo-Nazi pilgrimages
The building in Braunau am Inn, where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889, was inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday after a €20m renovation and years of legal battles to prevent it from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
- Jun 12
EU's new asylum rules take effect: border screening, solidarity and uncertainty on day one
The Common European Asylum System (GEAS) entered into force on 12 June 2026, introducing faster border procedures, a mandatory solidarity mechanism and a list of safe countries of origin — though several member states remain unprepared.
