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Sri Lanka's ruling coalition faces its first polls test today with over 15 million eligible voters participating in the election to appoint 340 of the island's 341 local councils, according to officials.

Herbert Kickl, the FPOe's secretary general and Austria's next interior minister, said he had "very, very good feeling".

News website Politico has named Sebastian Kurz one of this year`s most influential Europeans.

Austria was preparing on Saturday for a re-run of May`s Presidential Election in a vote that gives Norbert Hofer another shot at becoming the EU`s first far-right president.

The Greens said that the FPOe "has failed to present one single concrete case of a vote being miscounted". 

It was unclear what the next legal steps would be but Alexander Van der Bellen, the winner of the election, is due to be sworn in on July 8.

The result means that for the first time since 1945, Austria will not have a president backed by either Chancellor Werner Faymann's Social Democrats or their centre-right coalition partners the People's Party.

Austria registered 90,000 asylum claims in 2015, government figures showed on Tuesday, a rise of more than 200 percent compared to 28,000 the year before and just 11,000 in 2010.