Austrian court overturns presidential election result

Austria's highest court has ruled that presidential elections narrowly lost by a right-wing candidate must be repeated after his party claimed gross irregularities in the absentee vote count.

Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer was leading after polls closed on May 22, but final results after a count of absentee ballots put former Green Party politician Alexander Van der Bellen ahead by only a little more than 30,000 votes.