Information campaign causes great passport demand

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Officials in Salzburg are dealing with a flood of demand at passport offices after a campaign by the city to raise awareness of new passport regulations. After the 15th of June children may no longer travel on their parents’ passports according to the new EU-wide ruling of one person, one passport. All new travel documents […]

Hand grenade found in Tyrol

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Innsbruck police evacuated a park after a man discovered a hand grenade.The object was found near a waterfall yesterday morning (Sun). Strong rainfalls may have unearthed the grenade, police said today (Mon). It was defused and removed by experts of the federal interior ministry.The ministry’s teams have offices across the country to be on site […]

Raid at VIA over Skylink scandal

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Lower Austrian prosecutors have raided offices at Vienna International Airport (VIA) today (Thurs).Korneuburg state prosecutor Friedrich Köhl said dozens of documents have been confiscated. “It will probably take several weeks to examine them,” he added.A spokesman for Flughafen Wien AG, the company managing VIA, claimed none of their offices were searched. He added it had […]