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A10 WORLD NEWS
Monday 16 october 2017

Election produces likely right turn, young leader in Austria

By GEORGE JAHN end of World War II, Kurz
Associated Press called it a “historic victory.”
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s “Today is not the day of
31-year-old foreign minis- triumph over others, but to-
ter declared victory for his day is our chance for real
party Sunday in a national change in this country,” he
election that set him up to told cheering supporters.
become Europe’s young- Still to be counted are more
est leader and puts the than 800,000 absentee bal-
country on course for a lots and ones cast by vot-
rightward turn. ers outside of their home
Foreign Minister Sebastian districts. The outstanding
Kurz claimed the win as fi- votes are due to be tallied
nal results announced by by mid-week. However, the
the Interior Ministry showed votes counted so far show
his People’s Party had a that Austria, where mod-
comfortable lead with al- erate policies have been
most all the ballots count- the norm for decades, will
ed. Noting that his center- have a government with
right party had triumphed a harder line on migration
over the rival Social Demo- and Muslims than one run-
crats only twice since the ning the country now..q

Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, head of Austrian People’s Party, talks to the media after casting
his vote in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, when about 6.4 million people are eligible to
vote in the national elections.
(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Ireland, UK brace for Hurricane Ophelia impact

LONDON (AP) — The rem- weather service said the the height of the storm.
nants of Hurricane Oph- country’s southern and Irish Prime Minister Leo
elia could bring wind gusts western counties could get Varadkar tweeted: “De-
of 80 mph (130 kph), dis- gusts of up to 80 mph (130 fence forces being de-
ruption and damage to kph) along with heavy rain ployed in Red weather
Ireland and Britain as the and storm surges. alert areas and on standby
work week gets underway, The U.S. National Hurri- for further action tomor-
weather services said Sun- cane Center said the storm row.” Dublin and Shannon
day. could bring two to three airports advised passen-
Ophelia weakened to a inches (50 to 75 millimeters) gers to check flight infor-
Category 1 hurricane as of rain in western Ireland mation before travelling,
it moved north-northeast and Scotland, with coastal while Cork airport in south-
across the Atlantic, with flooding and “large and west Ireland said cancella-
sustained winds of 90 mph destructive waves” where tions were likely.
(145 kph). it makes landfall. Britain’s Met Office said 80-
It is expected to be down- Emergency officials in Ire- mph gusts could hit North-
graded to a post-tropical land said schools would be ern Ireland, which is part
storm before making land- closed Monday in the eight of the U.K., and warned of
fall in southern Ireland Mon- counties expected to see potential power cuts, fly-
day morning, but U.K. Met the strongest winds and ing debris and disruption
Office forecaster Luke Miall under a red weather alert, to transport and phone
said it could still pack “hur- the highest level. Cyclists signals. Strong winds could
ricane force” winds. and motorists were warned also hit Scotland, Wales
Ireland’s Met Eireann to stay off the roads during and England.q