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  Notorious Rapist Who Held Daughter Prisoner for Years in Home Dungeon Demands House with Basement Upon Release

  Austrian rapist Josef Fritzl is demanding a house with a basement ahead of a possible parole release after imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years.

• Austria to ban full-face veil in public places

  Austria's ruling coalition has agreed to prohibit full-face veils in public spaces such as courts and schools.

• Lauren Mann Murder Update: Gambia Native Man Arrested For Death of American Nanny

  The case of the American nanny murdered in Austria has a new development. A Gambia man has been arrested in connection with the death of Lauren Mann.

• Austria says it has sent over 5,000 migrants back to other EU countries

  Austria has sent back more than 5,000 migrants to EU countries that they had crossed on their way to Austria, its interior minister said on Thursday. Three weeks ago, Austria and Germany temporarily exempted people fleeing the Syrian war from EU rules requiring refugees to request asylum at the point where they enter the bloc. The move angered neighbors such as Hungary, who said it would merely encourage more migrants to come.

• Hungarian riot police detain migrants, including 'terrorist'

  Hungary on Wednesday detained 29 people including a "terrorist" as migrants demanding to be let through the country's newly shut EU frontier clashed with riot police firing water cannon and tear gas while refugees searched for new ways to enter the bloc.

• U.N. says 850,000 to cross sea to Europe in 2015 and 2016

  At least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean seeking refuge in Europe this year and next, the United Nations said on Tuesday, giving estimates that already look conservative.

• Austria plans to end measures allowing migrants from Hungary and move 'towards normality'

  Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday and move step by step "towards normality".

• Hungary says to bus migrants to Austrian border

  Hungary said on Friday it would send thousands of migrants by bus to the border with Austria, appearing to capitulate to crowds who broke away from riot police and struck out on foot for western Europe in a day of chaos.

• Migrants protest as Hungary shutters Budapest train station

  Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest's Eastern Railway Terminus on Tuesday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as European Union asylum rules came close to collapse under the strain of unprecedented migration.

• Austrian brothel offers free sex in tax protest

  An Austrian brothel is offering customers free sex in a summer-long protest over what its owner sees as punitive tax payments.

• Migrants race through Italy to dodge EU asylum rules

  Last month, Dejen Asefaw was rescued with hundreds of other migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Sicily. The 24-year-old graduate from Eritrea, who endured forced military service and prison at home, hopes to be granted asylum in Europe.

• Putin visits Italy with one eye on EU sanctions

  President Vladimir Putin will be on the lookout for signs of dissent over European Union sanctions on Russia when he visits Italy on Wednesday, but he is likely to be disappointed.

• Anti-Islam group PEGIDA holds first Austria march

  PEGIDA, the anti-Islam movement born in Germany, drew hundreds of supporters and counter-demonstrators to the streets of Vienna when it held its first march in neighboring Austria on Monday.

• Austria's first trial of alleged Islamic State fighter starts

  A 30-year old Chechen who Austrian authorities accuse of fighting with Islamic State jihadists in Syria in 2013 and sending them money pleaded not guilty when the country's first such trial opened on Thursday.

• Austrian prosecutors charge banker Meinl with breach of trust

  Austrian prosecutors have charged Julius Meinl V, chairman of Meinl Bank, with breach of trust as part of a multi-year investigation into dealings at the lender and a related firm, a spokeswoman for the Vienna criminal court said on Friday.

• Mexico says evidence proves missing students were incinerated

  Mexico said on Sunday that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang members, although forensic experts sounded a note of caution.