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Operation Predator logo Austria, United States Jointly Investigate Child PornographyLeads from United States result in search warrants by Austrian authoritiesAustrian authorities are cooperating with the United States in a massive investigation ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today are sold at newsstands and hotels throughout Vienna's First District, usually the same day they are published. Subscriptions to them, as well as to Time, Newsweek, and the Stars and Stripes, are available for timely delivery to the Embassy or to employees' homes. Austria Today, a local newspaper in English, is published weekly. Six general circulation daily German-language newspapers are published in Vienna. Three, Der Standard, Kurier and Die Presse, offer serious coverage of international and local news, as does the Salzburger Nachrichten, published in Salzburg but widely available in Vienna. Other European newspapers are available at local newsstands, as are some popular American magazines. Imported publications are expensive. ... [Read More]
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Europe and Eurasia - US Department of State
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, and Italian Minister of Defense Antonio Martino at July 12 news briefing in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Italy, U.S. ... [Read More]
Austria
Austria is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which constitutional power is shared between the popularly elected President and the 183-member Parliament. Citizens choose their President and representatives in periodic, free, and fair multiparty elections. In 1998, President Thomas Klestil of the Austrian People's Party (OVP) was elected to a 6-year term. In parliamentary elections in November 2002, the OVP received a plurality and renewed its right-center coalition with the Freedom Party (FPO). The judiciary is independent.The national police maintain internal security, and the army is responsible for external security. The civilian authorities maintained effective control of the security forces. There were reports that the police committed some human rights abuses.The country's highly developed, market-based economy, with its mix of technologically advanced industry, modern agriculture, and tourism, affords the ... [Read More]
Human Trafficking News - US Department of State
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