Brenner Tunnel under the Alps: How Europe’s longest rail project will reshape connectivity between Italy and Austria

Europe has just carved its way into history. According to a Reuters report, engineers have completed the breakthrough of the Brenner Base Tunnel, the world’s longest underground rail tunnel. This mega project, cutting beneath the Alps, will...

Newark Liberty International Airport Finally Responds Over Costly Passenger Visa Error

In a world where 10 to 12 million people fly every single day, mistakes are bound to happen. With nearly three million people flying around the U.S., it's no surprise that American airports see their fair share of drama. Many of these instances...

Praveen Mal Khanooja re-appointed as Government Nominee Director of ONGC

New Delhi, September 19, 2025: Shri Praveen Mal Khanooja has been re-appointed as Government Nominee Director of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for a period of three years with effect from 22.09.2025 on a co-terminus basis or until...

Minister Grynchuk, international partners discuss situation at Zaporizhzhia NPP

On the sidelines of the 69th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference, Ukrainian Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk met with the permanent representatives of EU countries to the IAEA. The relevant statement was made by the...

What is Russia's Intervision Song Contest that Saudi Arabia will host in 2026?

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc won the inaugural Intervision song contest in Moscow on Saturday night, taking home 30 million rubles ($360,000) in the Russian-backed international singing competition that's meant to rival the Eurovision Song Contest....

State Symphony Orchestra of Tajikistan holds first concert in Vienna

AKIPRESS.COM - The State Symphony Orchestra of the Executive Office of the President of Tajikistan, together with the Vienna orchestra "Kaiser-Walzer", held the first concert entitled "In Praise of International Friendship" at the Ehrbar Saal in...

Low-Cost Airlines Retreat from Vienna: Are Higher Prices and Location Disadvantages Looming?

Both Wizz Air and Ryanair criticize the high operating costs at Vienna Airport. Of particular concern is the flight tax of €12 per passenger, which goes to the Austrian government. These taxes are particularly significant for low-cost airlines,...

Vienna students join in to honor Constitution Day with NSDAR bell-ringing event

VIENNA, Ill. (WSIL) -- The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution hosted a special bell-ringing event at the Vienna Public Library on Wednesday, September 17. The ceremony was part of the celebrations for Constitution Week. Vienna...

Austria’s National Security Council holds meetings over drone incident in Poland

VIENNA, September 18. /TASS/. Austria’s authorities held a meeting of the National Security Council following the drone incursion incident in Poland, the ORF television channel reported. According to the television channel, the meeting focused on...

Elderly nuns escape nursing home in Austria and find way back to convent

CNA Deutsch, Sep 18, 2025 / 16:33 pm Since early September, three elderly nuns have been making international headlines and gaining followers on Instagram after fleeing their nursing home and returning to their convent in Austria. Sister...

Pioneering palliative care 'Oswestry model' developed in Shropshire will be shown off at Vienna conference

Severn Hospice teamed up with the NHS to create a model of palliative care for adults with neuromuscular conditions. Developed with the neuromuscular centre at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) in Gobowen, the model...

TIF 2025 First Day Concludes with Signing of Key International Agreements

AWAZA, Turkmenistan – September 18, 2025 – The successful first day of the Turkmenistan Investment Forum (TIF 2025) concluded this evening, culminating in a formal “Ceremony of signing bilateral documents” that translated high-level discussions...

In Upcoming Virginia, N.J. and Pennsylvania Elections, Women’s Votes Will Decide the Future of Reproductive Rights and Equality

Elections over the next several months in Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere are not just bellwethers for the midterms—they’re vital to protecting women’s rights. A woman returns her voter card after casting her ballot inside the...

Austria's hijab ban: First step in the punishment of Muslim life

To dismiss the hijab ban as symbolic, temporary, or “cheap politics” is to underestimate its impact. Its danger lies in what it reveals about the state’s broader intentions, writes Nehal Abdalla. [GETTY] The newly formed Austrian government, a...

Austrian Government introduces far-reaching rent controls

The Austrian Government coalition has agreed on significant State interventions in the rental market. It sees the Conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) effectively giving in to demands from its junior partner, the Social Democrats (SPÖ)....

EU ministers fail to agree climate targets, raising risk leaders will weaken them

Environment ministers representing the European Union’s 27 member states failed to agree emissions reduction targets for 2035 and 2040 in Brussels on Thursday, instead asking their countries’ leaders to weigh in when they meet next month. With...

Ryanair and Wizz Air cut Vienna activities due to ‘punitive aviation tax’

Irish low-cost airline Ryanair has announced it is moving three of its 19 aircraft based at Vienna airport to other countries and will close down three routes from the Austrian capital. The company said yesterday that the high tax burden in...

Ryanair cuts Vienna capacity, urges Austria to scrap air travel tax

Ryanair will withdraw three aircraft from Vienna and cancel three routes—Billund, Santander, and Tallinn—during the winter 2025 schedule, citing Austria’s €12 air travel tax and rising airport charges, which the airline says make the country...

European Work in Progress and the International Film Distribution Summit set to kick off in Hamburg

18/09/2025 - The eighth edition of EWIP received over 240 submissions, with 30 projects selected, while Charades will receive the Best International Innovation Distribution Award at IFDS Heysel 85 by Teodora Ana Mihai (© Guillaume Van Laethem for...

Op-Ed: Mamdani’s Vienna Plan' would wreck New York's housing

New York rents just hit another all-time high, straining working families across the five boroughs. But instead of tackling the real problem—too little housing supply—socialist Assemblyman and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria) wants to...