Friday, September 2, 2022

Flash flooding in Bavaria, Austria as heat wave breaks

Fire departments in Bavaria were kept busy overnight as storms and heavy rains prompted flash floods with drains and the dry earth unable to cope with the sudden precipitation.

Basements flooded, trees were blown over on public roads, and police reported several road traffic accidents related to aquaplaning (when there's so much water under a vehicle's tires that it severs the car's contact with the road and causes the driver to lose all or almost all control).

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Amsterdam to Austria Ski Express night train launches ahead of snow season

Calling all snow sport lovers - a new overnight train to some of Austria’s biggest ski resorts is launching. TUI’s ‘Ski Express’ will depart from Amsterdam every Friday night between 23 December and 31 March.

After leaving the Dutch capital at 5:30pm, the service will stop at Utrecht, then continue directly to Austria. “You leave on Friday evening and wake up in the mountains on Saturday morning,” TUI says.

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Austria backs EU cap to end 'madness' of runaway power prices

VIENNA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer backs a European Union-wide cap on runaway electricity prices, he said in a statement issued by his office on Sunday.

Austria's conservative-led government was initially sceptical at the idea of capping power prices but it has warmed to the idea as they have continued to rise in line with soaring gas prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Austria Announces Scholarships to Pakistani Students To Study In Austria.

Recently, a delegation of the Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur visited different universities and met the government officials in Austria. The delegation was led by Dr. Atta Ur Rahman, who is the Vice Chair of the Institute’s Board of Governors. The key meeting of the visit was held between the Pakistani delegation and the officials of MCI Innsbruck University.

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PAFIAST students to get free education in Austria

PESHAWAR: In a major breakthrough, the world’s top-ranked universities and the Austrian government have offered free education to the students of Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur.

The University of Applied Sciences FHJOANNEUM will charge only the out-of-EU fees amounting to around EUR800 per student instead of EUR 9,000 actual costs. The PAFIAST student’s tuition fee will be waived at the University of Applied Sciences, MCI Innsbruck. The International Cooperation

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