Wolfgang Sobotka News

The Austrian minister who announced on Monday that the home Adolf Hitler was born would be demolished, appears to have backtracked somewhat, now saying the goal is merely to strip it of any recognition.

Deliberations in Austria about what to do with the building, located in Braunau am Inn in the state of Upper Austria, have been long-standing.

Arsonists were most likely behind a huge blaze which engulfed a newly-built but still empty refugee centre in northern Austria, police said on Wednesday.

Austria`s new Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka said on Sunday he would stick to the hardline stance on migrants pushed by his predecessor, Johanna Mikl-Leitner.