Icelandic-French filmmaker Solveig Anspach passes away
Icelandic-French movie director Solveig Anspach has died at the age of 54 after losing her battle with breast cancer. Anspach, who broke onto the scen...
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Russia bans Icelandic food imports
The Russian government has added Iceland to a list of countries from which all food imports are banned. The ban was introduced after the US and the EU...
Dane imprisoned for fighting with Isis
A Danish national has been handed a three-year jail term in Lebanon for fighting with the radical Islamist organisation Isis. The man, who has been id...
Huge drug bust in Finland
An international drug ring of 20 smugglers was sentenced in Espoo District Court in Finland on Monday in what was one of the Nordic country’s biggest ...
Czech planes to guard Iceland airspace
The Czech Republic is deploying five multirole fighter jets to protect Iceland’s airspace for six weeks while Canada partakes in US-led operations aga...
Iceland is the best place to be gay
Iceland has been ranked number one on the Gay Happiness Index, scoring 79 out of a possible 100, while Uganda is bottom of the pile. PlanetRomeo, a ga...
Iceland revokes law allowing citizens to kill Basques
Authorities in Iceland have revoked a 400-year-old law that allowed citizens to kill Basques on sight. For the past four centuries, people in Iceland ...
Annual Icelandic-American conference focusses on Arctic opportunities
The annual Icelandic-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) conference will see public and private sector figures from Iceland, the US, Canada and Greenl...