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Austria Wraps Up Ugly, Divisive Presidential Campaign

Austrians prepared to go to the polls Sunday in an election that could see the country, one of Europe's most stable democracies, get its first far-right president since World War II. Analysts said the race between far-right candidate Norbert Hofer of the anti-Islamist Freedom Party and his opponent, Alexander Van Der Bellen of the Green Party, was too close to predict in the hours before the start of voting, with some polls showing Nofer, a former aeronautical engineer, slightly...

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