Austria to move fast to hold elections after coalition collapses
(WorldNews Asia)

Austria is heading for snap elections after the far-right vice-chancellor resigned over a video that appeared to show him promising public contracts to a woman posing as a Russian backer, in return for help in his election campaign. The Austrian chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, said on Saturday that `enough was enough` and his conservative Austrian People´s party (ÖVP) was ending its 18-month-old coalition with the nationalist Freedom party (FPO). Elections would be held `as soon as possible`, Kurz said. Kurz´s deputy, FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache, earlier told a press conference he had been the victim of a `targeted political assassination` aimed at breaking apart the coalition government,...