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No mixed emotions for Straka after choosing to play for Europe over the United States at Ryder Cup
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — Sepp Straka has an American mother, went to an American university, lives in the United States and his undeniably American accent has a southern drawl. Yet there he was Tuesday, dressed in Europe’s white-yellow-and-blue uniform as he walked the...
AP PHOTOS: Bavarian hammersmith forges wrought-iron pans at a mill more than 500 years old
BAD OBERDORF, Germany (AP) — Andreas Rohrmoser has been forging thousands of wrought-iron pans the old-fashioned way in his centuries-old hammer mill in the Bavarian village of Bad Oberdorf near the Austria border. The 53-year-old German hammersmith took over the mill from his...
AP PHOTOS: In the warming Alps, Austria's melting glaciers are in their final decades
JAMTALFERNER GLACIER, Austria (AP) — High up on an Alpine ridge beneath a ceiling of ice, water drips from above into a cave formed by the slowly shrinking Jamtalferner glacier. In just a few years, Jamtalferner will be gone, and in a few decades, so might the rest of Austria's...
A bus coach crashes in Austria, killing a woman and injuring 20 others
BERLIN (AP) — A bus coach traveling through Austria on Tuesday went off the road and crashed on its side, killing a woman and injuring 20 other passengers, Austria's APA agency reported. The accident took place near the village of Micheldorf in Carinthia state in central Austria....
Climate protesters around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuels as Earth heats up
From Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat, with plans to continue through the weekend. ...
She danced with Putin at her wedding. Now the former Austrian foreign minister has moved to Russia
LONDON (AP) — A former Austrian foreign minister who had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to her wedding and danced a waltz with him at the 2018 reception said she has moved to St. Petersburg to set up a think tank there. Karin Kneissl, 58, announced on messaging app...
A rhino at an Austrian zoo kills a zookeeper and seriously injures her husband
BERLIN (AP) — A rhinoceros attacked a married couple working as zookeepers in Austria on Tuesday, killing the woman and seriously injuring the man as he attempted to save her, authorities said. The attack happened at the Hellbrunn Zoo in the western Austrian city of Salzburg. ...
Latvia and Estonia sign deal to buy German-made missile defense system
VIENNA (AP) — Estonia and Latvia signed an agreement Monday with Germany to purchase a medium-range air defense missile system that opens the way for the two Baltic nations to join a common air defense system proposed by Germany last year. The agreement was signed Monday at a...
EU rebukes its representative in Austria over 'blood money' comment on Russian gas imports
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union's executive branch strongly criticized the bloc's representative in Austria for accusing the country of paying “blood money” to Russia for gas supplies and said Friday he has been ordered back to Brussels. EU representative Martin Selmayr said...
Frances Tiafoe loves the US Open and the US Open loves him. He is into the third round there again
NEW YORK (AP) — There was not much drama involved in Frances Tiafoe’s second-round victory at the U.S. Open on Wednesday night. He quickly grabbed a lead and never let go. He only faced one break point — and saved it. He volleyed terrifically. His outmatched opponent needed some help from a...
