Austrian leader resigns over `Ibiza affair´
(WorldNews France)

VIENNA: Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, a key figure of the European far-right, resigned on Saturday after explosive revelations from a hidden camera sting, just days before key EU elections. `I tendered my resignation as vice chancellor of Austria to Chancellor Kurz, and he accepted this decision,` an emotional Strache said in a televised statement. Media reports emerged on Friday alleging that Strache promised public contracts in return for campaign help from a fake Russian backer he met in a luxury villa on the island of Ibiza a few months before 2017´s parliamentary elections in Austria. On Saturday Strache insisted he was the `victim of a...