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3 hrs ago | Sacramento Bee Newspaper

Travel Troubleshooter: Double the cost for half the fun

Q: I recently booked a two-night stay at the Hotel am Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria, through the Accor website.

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Sat Feb 11, 2012

Austrian Times

Sax sensation at the Volkstheater

The Volkstheater promises a night to remember as an award-winning saxophone orchestra is at the ready to rock Vienna.

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Coastal Breeze News

Saul I. Stern Cultural Series Continues

The Naples Philharmonic Brass Quintet will present an evening of classical music interspersed with works from popular artists like Gershwin and Ellington from the days of the big bands and great jazz musicians.

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Variety

Incentives ready for savvy co-prods

The Austrian Film Institute, the official government funder, had $21.35 million available under its FISA film funding scheme.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

Austrian Times

Syrian rebels possibly armed by the West, Russian diplomat claims

The Russian ambassador in Vienna has alleged that the Western world may provide the Syrian opposition with weapons.

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Austrian Times

Police accused of ignoring neo-Nazi attack

Viennese police officers are facing jail over failing to help a retired politician after he was assaulted by a right-wing mob.

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Scotsman.com

Interview: William Boyd, author of Waiting for Sunrise

William Boyd tells David Robinson what drew him to write his new thriller about an actor-turned-spy in 1913 Vienna He got to the Freud Museum early.

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Austrian Times

Mum Threw Baby On Fire

A mother who threw her stillborn baby onto the fire after going into labour at home is facing five years in jail, say prosecutors in Warsaw, Poland.

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Austrian Times

AI Austria condemns 'naive' FPO

The head of Amnesty International's Austrian representation has made aware of hardship and continuing violation of human rights in Chechnya.

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Austrian Times

Austrian holidaymakers are patriots, poll shows

More than one in four Austrians who plan to go on holiday this year will do so in their home country, according to a new poll.

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Reuters

TEXT-S&P affirms UniCredit Bank Austria

On Feb. 10, 2012, Standard & Poor's lowered its ratings on Italian bank UniCredit SpA to 'BBB+/A-2' from 'A/A-1', assigned a negative outlook, and removed them from CreditWatch negative.

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Romania-Insider.com

Wanna do the Charleston? Viennese Waldeck resurrect the 20s in Bucharest

Viennese band Waldeck, the musical project of Austrian musician Klaus Waldeck, will revive the sounds of the 20s, with an added electro twist, in Romania this February.

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Austrian Times

Price check confirms AUA staff's friendly fire complaints

Austrian Airlines employees' representatives feel confirmed in their criticism of Lufthansa as a price check reveals that the Viennese airline's German mother company offers cheaper connections.

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Austrian Times

Austrian woman takes legal action against silicon implant company

A woman from Vienna, Austria, who received silicone breast implants from French firm PIP, has appealed to the Austrian Consumer Information Association for help.

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Thu Feb 09, 2012

Pattaya Mail

Austrian embassy's soi renamed after Mozart to mark 100th anniversary

Austrians marked the 100th anniversary of their embassy in Bangkok by unveiling a street sign officially renaming the street on which it sits after the country's most-famous export: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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Austrian Times

Wedding Snatch

Light-fingered Chinese groom Chen Lu paid the price when he decided to pocket two pocket cameras while his wife chatted to a photographer about wedding photographs.

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Austrian Times

Schlecker says Austrian jobs are safe

The son of Schlecker founder Anton Schlecker has claimed that the company has no plans to sell its Austrian affiliate.

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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Lawyer: 6 Austrians were injected with malaria

The number of people claiming they were injected with the parasite causing malaria at a Vienna psychiatric ward while teenagers grew to seven Thursday, with the lawyer representing six of them saying their accounts, given separately, are credible because they are similar.

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United Nations

Nuclear test ban treaty the focus of Ban's visit to Austrian capital

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa and CTBTO Executive Secretary Tibor Toth speak to the press after ratification of the treaty.

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The Toronto Star

Lviv, Ukraine enters a golden age

"I couldn't survive in Lviv without coffee." My host, Halyna, is not the only one who feels this way about the caffeinated elixir.

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