François Murphy

Austria's government said on Wednesday it will increase its so-called petrol price brake aimed at cushioning the blow to consumers ​of higher oil prices from the conflict in the ‌Middle East, reinstating a cap on retailers' margins scrapped in June.

Austria's central bank has trimmed its economic growth forecast for the country in ​2026 due to a weaker-than-expected first six ‌months of the year, but raised it for next year as the outlook is improving, it said ​on Friday.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany are seeking a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog's ‌board next week reporting Iran to the U.N. Security Council for the first time in 20 years, according to diplomats and the proposed text seen by Reuters.

Austria has broken up a scheme in which a Vienna-based company supplied equipment used to make engines for Russian missiles and ​fighter jets, in breach of European Union sanctions, the interior ‌ministry said on Monday.

Austria recorded ​a record-breaking ‌41.2 degrees Celsius (106.2 ​degrees ​Fahrenheit) on Wednesday in ⁠the ​town of ​Bad Deutsch-Altenburg near the border ​with ​Slovakia, national weather ‌service ⁠GeoSphere Austria said.

Austria's ​coalition government plans to extend military service to nine months from six to adapt ‌to a security landscape changed by the war in Ukraine, it said on Monday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will propose ​that conservative parliamentary ‌director Steffen Bilger replace Patrick Schnieder as transport ​minister as ​part of an ongoing cabinet ⁠reshuffle, a government ​spokesperson said in ​a statement on Sunday.

Austrian Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer has cancer and will undergo treatment ​for the next three months while remaining in ‌office and continuing to work, he said in a statement issued by his ministry on Monday.

The global trade in illicit drugs is booming, with cocaine production ‌and seizures of methamphetamine at an all-time high, a United Nations report showed on Friday, warning of a surge in new drugs filling a gap left by the collapse in heroin supply.

The U.N. nuclear ​watchdog will carry out inspections in Iran soon following an interim peace accord between the United States and ‌Iran, its chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday, although Tehran later indicated that access to key sites remained contingent on a final agreement and sanctions lifting.