The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization will not attend the UN nuclear watchdog's annual conference in Vienna for the first time in years due to an international travel ban. Austria's request for a waiver to allow his attendance was not granted, amid ongoing tensions over Iran's restrictions on IAEA inspectors since June 2025.
Austrian authorities dismantled an international network in which a Vienna-based company supplied equipment for Russian missile and fighter jet engines through shell companies across multiple countries, violating EU sanctions. The scheme used intermediaries in Turkey, UAE, Hong Kong, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, South Korea, Poland, Lithuania, and Spain to circumvent sanctions imposed in 2022.
An international research team led by the Medical University of Vienna has reported a breakthrough treatment strategy that successfully enabled a kidney transplant for a patient who had no realistic chance of receiving a suitable donor organ through conventional methods.
