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The article reports on how tourists who visited the famous in Ischgl, Austria were infected with the coronavirus disease and transmitted the disease to people in their home countries. Topics include how public health policy promoted global mass tourism through open borders even during outbreaks, the advice by the World Health Organization (WHO) to maintain travel when the disease was discovered in China, and comments from professor Lawrence O. Gostin on the International Health Regulations.

The article explores the rise of far-right parties across Europe and their control of intelligence agencies with a focus on Austria and the far-right Freedom Party which joined its government 17 months ago. Topics covered include testimony of Sybille Geissler, head of the anti-extremism unit of the Austrian intelligence service confirming the efforts of the far-right to undermine her agency and decision of European allies and the U.S. to exclude Austria from certain intelligence sharing.

The article discusses that the October's knife slayings by freelance terrorists shocked the French but have not led to the global outpouring of sympathy for France seen after Islamist massacres in 2015 and 2016. it mentions that the European leaders have expressed solidarity, but the Muslim world has been convulsed with anti-French demonstrations and calls for a boycott.

The article discusses that a man claiming to be a Turkish intelligence operative walked into a police station in Vienna, and his confession was explosive. Topics discussed include the man said he had been ordered to shoot a Kurdish-Austrian politician, which he did not want to do, and asked for police protection; and the views of Karl Nehammer, the Austrian interior minister, on it.

The article talks about a refugee Alma Zadic, who became a government minister Justice of Austria. It mentions her charged with defending policies that were consigned by the far right to effectively keep people like her parents out of the country and also mentions her joining of a conservative government under the charismatic and anti-Semantic fireband.

The article focuses on election in Austria in which Sebastian Kurz, Former Chancellor of Austria, who is up for re-election, seems open to reunion with the far-right Freedom party, political party that follows political scandal.

The article reports that the open border between Austria and Slovenia might be closing again in line with Pro Borders, the military exercise staged by Austrian military and police which simulated mass arrival of migrants similar with the flow of migrants in the 2015 European migrant crisis. Topics covered include the fence built as a border barrier and outlook of Austrians and Slovenes staying in Austria on the fence, the military patrols and checkpoints.

VIENNA -- As Pope Benedict XVI has come under scrutiny for his handling of sexual abuse cases, both his supporters and his critics have paid fresh attention to the way he responded to a sexual abuse scandal in Austria in the 1990s, one of the most damaging to confront the church in Europe. Defenders of Benedict cite his role in dealing with Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer of Vienna as evidence that he moved assertively, if quietly, against abusers. They point to the fact that Cardinal Groer left office six months after accusations against him of molesting boys first appeared in the Austrian news media in 1995. The future pope, they say, favored a full canonical investigation, only to be blocked by other ranking officials in the Vatican. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]