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New Austrian coronavirus measures snarl traffic at border

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Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas of Finland poses with his trophy and a bottle of champagne after winning the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring racetrack in Spielberg, Austria, Sunday, July 5, 2020. (Mark Thompson/Pool via AP)

Bottas shows he can handle pressure in winning Austrian GP

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

Austria breaks ground on Holocaust memorial in Vienna

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This picture taken on May 9, 2020 and made available on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 by Suedtiroler Schuetzenbund, a group that rejects the legitimacy of Italian rule of the area that became part of Italy after World War II, shows writing with fire reading in German Iatz &quot;Now&quot;, in Ultimo, known in German as Ulten, in the German-speaking province of South Tyrol, in northern Italy. (Suedtiroler Schuetzenbund via AP)

Italy’s South Tyrol invokes autonomy to pry open lockdown

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

In this picture taken, April 26, 2020, a family album photograph showing Hannelore Fischer Cruz singing is placed on her piano at the house where she used to live in Braga, northern Portugal. Born amid the ruins of wartime Vienna, Hannelore Fischer was sent as a small child to Portugal where her flamboyant manner and outstanding soprano voice would later help her build a life far from her place of birth. She died of COVID-19 on March 25, 2020, after four days on a ventilator at Braga's hospital. (AP Photo/Luis Vieira)

Lives Lost: Virus silences angelic voice of WWII evacuee

By HELENA ALVES and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

In this March 10, 2020, file photo, a child tosses an already-autographed baseball while awaiting another signature from a passing player before a spring training baseball game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Seattle Mariners in Peoria, Ariz. Doctors, scientists and sports leaders are outlining the path back to playing fields for children in grassroots sports -- an exercise that could inform major organizations on how to get their industries up and running as well in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) **FILE**

Leaders chart path back to playing fields for amateur sports

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

Austria shuts down last coal-fired power plant

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Supermarket employees distribute protective masks to customers in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. In Austria protective masks should be worn in shops from Wednesday on. The Austrian government has moved to restrict freedom of movement for people, in an effort to slow the onset of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austrian, Czech officials plan to ease some virus measures

By GEIR MOULSON and KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

6 killed in Alpine avalanches in Austria

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A woman wearing a sanitary mask walks past the Duomo gothic cathedral in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. A dozen Italian towns saw daily life disrupted after the deaths of two people infected with the virus from China and a pair of case clusters without direct links to the outbreak abroad. A rapid spike in infections prompted authorities in the northern Lombardy and Veneto regions to close schools, businesses and restaurants and to cancel sporting events and Masses. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italy rushes to contain Europe’s first major virus outbreak

By LUCA BRUNO and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Austria’s Kurz backs justice minister against online hate

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New Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler, left, and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, right, attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new Austrian government of the conservative Austrian People's Party, OEVP, and the Austrian Green party in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria: Kurz sworn in as chancellor, completing comeback

By GEIR MOULSON and RONALD ZAK - Associated Press

Sebastian Kurz, left, head of the Austrian People's Party, OEVP, poses with Werner Kogler, right, head of the Austrian Greens after a press conference about the government program in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria’s Kurz optimistic new coalition will last full term

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Sebastian Kurz, left, head of the Austrian People's Party, OEVP, shakes hands with Werner Kogler, right, head of the Austrian Greens during a press conference after finishing the coalition negotiations in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria’s Kurz says Greens coalition ‘best of both worlds’

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In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, Sebastian Kurz head of the Austrian People's Party, OEVP, speaks to journalists during a press conference about the beginning of the coalition negotiations with the Austrian Greens in Vienna, Austria. Austrian People's Party, OEVP and the environmentalist Greens appear to be closing in on a coalition deal that would return ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to power and end the reign of a non-partisan interim government. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)

Austria’s Kurz, Greens agree on new coalition government

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In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, Sebastian Kurz head of the Austrian People's Party, OEVP, speaks to journalists during a press conference about the beginning of the coalition negotiations with the Austrian Greens in Vienna, Austria. Austrian People's Party, OEVP and the environmentalist Greens appear to be closing in on a coalition deal that would return ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to power and end the reign of a non-partisan interim government. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, file)

Austria’s Kurz closes in on government deal with Greens

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A digger cleans the river bed of the river Thumersbach in Zell am See, Austrian province of Salzburg, on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. The extreme snow and rainfalls of the past few days cause massive dangers and disabilities in parts of Austria,(AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Snow, flooding, mudslides in Austria kill 1, injure 2

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Sebastian Kurz head of the Austrian People's Party, OEVP, speaks to journalists during a press conference about the beginning of the coalition negotiations with the Austrian Greens in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria’s Kurz to launch coalition talks with Greens

By GEIR MOULSON and PHILIPP JENNE - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019 photo, an official at an auction house shows a handwritten letter by Sigmund Freud, in Jerusalem. The letter which shows a rare sentimental side to the 20th century thinker as well as insight into the life of a prominent Jewish refugee amid the advance of the Nazis, is set to be auctioned on Dec. 3, with a $6,000 opening bid. The letter, written in German and dated June 21, 1938, was sent several weeks after Freud fled the Nazis in his native Austria and moved to London. (AP Photo/Patty Nieberg)

Intimate Freud letter up for sale reveals his softer side

By PATTY NIEBERG - Associated Press

Former Austrian chancellor and top candidate of the Austrian People's Party, OEVP, Sebastian Kurz arrives for a closing rally ahead of federal elections in Vienna, Austria, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Austrians boost Kurz’s conservatives, Greens in snap poll

By PHILIPP JENNE and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press