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Facade of Hotel Sacher with ornate architecture, multiple flags including American and European, and a few parked cars outside.

Inside the trial shaking Vienna’s long tolerance for spies

Global Politics

The largest spy trial in decades is currently underway in Austria. The case has drawn international attention to the country’s lax espionage laws and intensified calls for tougher legislation.

In the city of its birth, Jews reject Zionism

Sacred Nation
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, center, attends a meeting with the Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.

Iran-UN nuclear agreement signals ‘very, very tempered optimism’ for negotiations, Iran analyst says

Medical professionals are shown on either side of a wall that has signs for the AstraZeneca vaccine posted on it.

The EU sues AstraZeneca escalating tensions amid the pandemic

Top of The World
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is shown speaking and with his right hand rised and point his finger in the air.

Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna amid new complications

Nuclear
Technicians work at the Arak heavy water reactor's secondary circuit.

US officials and signatories of the Iran deal to meet in Vienna next week

Conflict & Justice

In today’s Top of The World: Iran nuclear deal signatories will work to bring US and Iran back into compliance; Taiwan faces its deadliest train crash; Ethiopia’s northern Tigray humanitarian crisis worsens

The aspern Seestadt district is designed with high urban density and extremely high energy efficiency standards as a priority. 

Vienna’s green mini-city offers a model for sustainable, urban living

The Big Fix

Aspern Seestadt — home to various industries, researchers and small businesses — demonstrates the possibilities for building an entirely green mini-city. 

Christian Koblinger, head of tourism in Radstadt, Austria, says the winter ski season is a major economic driver in his community.

Austria’s ski resorts remain open during pandemic — but now they’re ‘ghost towns’

Business, Economics and Jobs

Across most of Europe, ski resorts are shut down due to COVID-19. Ski lifts in Austria remain open, but only those fortunate enough to live within a day’s drive can enjoy the slopes.

Several heavily armed police officers are shown walking on a street in Vienna with one officer passing a bar.

Attack in Vienna hit nightlife; suspect sought to join ISIS

Extremism

A 20-year-old Islamic extremist armed with an automatic rifle and a fake explosive vest rampaged through a Vienna nightlife district hours ahead of a coronavirus lockdown, fatally shooting four people before he was killed by police, Austrian authorities said Tuesday.

A group of officials from the US is shown on the street entering a stone building.

China rebukes US envoy for photo stunt at nuclear talks with Russia

Global Politics

The US envoy to nuclear arms control talks with Russia taunted China on Monday for its absence, earning a rebuke from Beijing for posting a picture of empty seats with Chinese flags at negotiations China had never planned to attend.