Vienna - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Friday rejected calls to keep oil prices at present low levels, arguing this would lead to a supply crunch.
Maintaining the current price would help stimulate the economic recovery of oil-importing countries, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Nobuo Tanaka, was quoted as saying by the Financial Times on Thursday.
Vienna - Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl loved his imprisoned victims in his own way and cared for them, his lawyer Rudolf Mayer claimed Friday, while predicting that his client would spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Fritzl, 73, is set to stand trial from March 16 on charges of enslaving, raping and incarcerating his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children. He is also accused of having murdered one of them.
Vienna - The international arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir would encourage rebel groups in Darfur and destabilize the country, a senior Sudanese parliamentarian warned Thursday in Vienna.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Wednesday issued the warrant against al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the counter-insurgency campaign in Sudan's Darfur region.