Austrian chancellor calls for new elections after vice chancellor resigns in scandal
(WorldNews Europe)

BERLIN - Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called for new elections on Saturday, hours after his vice chancellor and head of the Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache, announced his resignation from both offices. Hours before Kurz`s announcement Saturday, leaked videos emerged on Friday evening that purported to show Strache promising government contracts in exchange for political donations from a woman posing as part of a Russian oligarch family. The videos, secretly recorded in a villa on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza in 2017 before the Austrian elections, included Strache telling the woman he could arrange lucrative government contracts if she acquired controlling stakes in...