https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An imam and three other men have been locked up by an Austrian court for running a religious group that recruited young men for Isis. https://www.thelocal.at/20191018/austria-jails-imam-and-three-other-men-for-isis-recruitment Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:24:37 +0200 austria-jails-imam-and-three-other-men-for-isis-recruitment A German hiker who was trampled to death by cows in Austria was partly to blame for the incident, a court has ruled. https://www.thelocal.at/20190827/hiker-partly-to-blame-for-getting-trampled-to-death-by-cows-in-austria Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:30:36 +0200 hiker-partly-to-blame-for-getting-trampled-to-death-by-cows-in-austria The Chamber of Labour ruled that a cleaning woman was unfairly dismissed after 20 years of service when a company terminated her for bad German language skills. https://www.thelocal.at/20161227/cleaning-woman-fired-after-20-years-for-bad-german Tue, 27 Dec 2016 12:17:43 +0100 cleaning-woman-fired-after-20-years-for-bad-german An Austrian has won a ten year court battle over an extra €2.50 he was asked to pay to get into a pool in Bavaria a decade ago. https://www.thelocal.at/20160824/austrian-wins-ten-year-court-battle-over-250-germany-overcharged-court-victory Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:11:16 +0200 austrian-wins-ten-year-court-battle-over-250-germany-overcharged-court-victory A recent leak of court documents shows that US authorities suspect one of their own highest-ranking former diplomats, Zalmay Khalilzad, of money laundering through the Austrian bank accounts of his wife, Cheryl Benard. https://www.thelocal.at/20140907/former-diplomat-investigated-for-money-laundering Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:23:00 +0200 former-diplomat-investigated-for-money-laundering There are more red faces at Vienna’s Regional Court after it emerged that a convicted thief was employed as one of the cleaning staff - only a week after revelations that court staff threw confidential documents in a public rubbish bin. https://www.thelocal.at/20140903/vienna-court-employed-convicted-thief Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:58:23 +0200 vienna-court-employed-convicted-thief Vienna’s Regional Court has had to redefine its “waste management” policy after a blogger found confidential documents relating to ongoing cases in a paper recycling container outside the court building. https://www.thelocal.at/20140828/vienna-court-threw-secret-files-in-rubbish Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:02:00 +0200 vienna-court-threw-secret-files-in-rubbish