Reports of Trump’s summit with Putin in Iceland retracted
Yesterday’s news reported an alleged meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin in Reykjavik. The meeting was to take p...
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The media response to the new Icelandic Government
A recent headline in the Washington Post remarks on the new Icelandic government „Iceland ousted one leader named in the Panma Papers, but ended up wi...
A new majority government takes over today
A new government is taking over with a majority in parliament today. Bjarni Benediktsson is scheduled to take over government as prime minister...
Artist salary in 2017 – 1606 artist applied, 391 received
The annual artist salary was made public yesterday. Each fall artists in Iceland sit down and go over the year a head of them, make a plan for the yea...
Majority in government to be announced on Tuesday
Deliberations for a majority government in Icelandic parliament is well underway with a tight majority comprised of the Independence party along with ...
A new earthquake in the volcano Katla. No signs of eruption
An earthquake of 3,5 on the Richter scale shook Katla caldera under the Myrdalsjokull icecap at 07:09 am this morning. The origin of the tremor was to...
Reykjavik feels an earthquake of 3.8 magnitude today
A powerful string of earthquakes shook Reykjavik and the nearby area around noon today. The tremors were centered south of Thingvallavatn lake in Sout...
Artist Ragnar Kjartansson among the twelve awarded the Order of the Falcon on New Years day
President Guðni Th. Johannesson, awarded twelve individuals the Order of the Falcon in an annual ceremony at the presidential residency Bessastadir ye...