ALEXANDER VAN DER BELLEN

Austria’s liberal president is on course to win a second six-year term in an election without the need for a runoff vote.

Austrian voters will head to the polls Sunday in the first round of the country’s presidential election.

Austria’s 78-year-old president says he will seek reelection later this year, following a term that has seen him pilot the Alpine country through repeated political upheaval.

The Holocaust survivor Gertrude Pressburger has died at age 94.

Karl Nehammer has been sworn in as Austria’s third chancellor in two months.

Austria has a new chancellor, two days after former leader Sebastian Kurz resigned amid corruption allegations.

Austria’s president has welcomed Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s resignation and demanded that the country’s politicians work hard to restore voters’ trust after a several-day drama that brought the government to the brink of collapse.

Pakistan’s foreign minister says Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers should understand that if they want recognition and assistance in rebuilding the war-battered country “they have to be more sensitive and more receptive to international opinion and norms.”.

Hospitalized Czech President Milos Zeman has undergone medical checks that haven't revealed any problems or disease that would threaten his life.

The head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party said Tuesday he is stepping down, raising the possibility that he could run for president of the Alpine nation next year.

Austria's presidential election ended in a narrow defeat for a far-right candidate Monday. Alexander Van der Bellen beat his opponent Norbert Hoffer. If Hoffer would have won, he would have been the EU's first democratically elected right-wing head of state in post-Nazi Europe. CBS News correspondent Seth Doane has the latest from Vienna.