VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's lower house of parliament on Thursday elected its first ever far-right speaker after his Freedom Party won last month's parliamentary election and many conservatives ...

Opposition candidate Walter Rosenkranz of the far-right Freedom casts his vote for the Austrian Presidential election in Krems an der Donau, Austria, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Theresa Wey) VIENNA (AFP) ...

In a historic move, Walter Rosenkranz, a member of the far-right Freedom Party, was elected speaker of the Austrian parliament. Last month, the Freedom Party had a strong performance in national ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Member of Austria's Freedom Party (FPOe) Walter Rosenkranz delivers a speech after his election as new President of the National ...

(JNS) A new exhibition on the fate of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust has been inaugurated at the Austrian Parliament, in a major step forward in acknowledging the country’s Nazi past. The ...

VIENNA (AFP) — Austrian lawmakers on Thursday voted by a large majority in favor of a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move rights groups and experts say is discriminatory and ...

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 ...

Austria’s lower house of parliament, the National Council, voted Wednesday to lift the parliamentary immunity of Herbert Kickl, leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and chairman of ...

VIENNA (AP) — A lawmaker from the far-right Freedom Party was elected Thursday as the new speaker of Austria’s parliament, weeks after the party won a national election for the first time. Walter ...

Austrian lawmakers on Thursday elected for the first time a far-right politician as parliament president despite the Jewish community criticising the nominee for having paid "hommage to Nazi criminals ...