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New Austrian Government Will Have A Far-Right Tilt

The country's chancellor finalized a deal Friday to form a governing coalition with a party that has Nazi roots.
The leader of Austria's conservative People's Party, Sebastian Kurz (right), and the country's far-right Freedom Party, Heinz-Christian Strache (left) give a joint press conference in Vienna on Saturday.

Austria finalized a deal late Friday to make the 31-year-old Sebastian Kurz Europe's youngest leader, and to form a new governing coalition that will include a far-right party with Nazi roots.

Exactly two months after Austrians went to the polls, Kurz struck a

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