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1. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Francois Murphy

   Austrian headscarf ban for under-14s faces test as schools reopen (opens the original)

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   Austria’s ban on headscarves for under-14s faced an ‌initial test on Monday as schools reopened in Vienna and other states, with groups ‌including the country’s main Muslim organisation denouncing it as discriminatory and legal challenges likely. Austria’s ruling coalition of ​three centrist parties proposed the ban in schools, arguing it was acting to protect girls’ freedom. The legislation was passed in parliament in December with the support of the far-right ​Freedom Party. On

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2. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Francois Murphy

   Hitler’s birthplace converted into police station in hopes of preventing neo-Nazi pilgrimage (opens the original)

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   The building where Adolf Hitler was born, near ‌the Austrian border with Germany, officially began a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria’s government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis. After years of ​debate about the large, traditional terraced house in the town of Braunau am Inn, which was in private ownership and had housed a charity for people with disabilities, Austria made a compulsory purchase in 2017 and announced in 20

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