François Murphy

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.

Oil prices are likely to ​ease, not plummet, as ‌the U.S.-Iran interim peace deal lets shipments through the ​Strait of Hormuz ​resume and at the same ⁠time countries replenish ​reserves, International Monetary Fund ​chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday.

US-Iran nuclear talks must address these key issues