Funeral for famous Finnish brewery
Last week saw a small crowd hold a funeral procession to commemorate the closure of the famous Pori Brewery. The last rites were administered to a bee...
Will Russia loan Iceland money?
The Icelandic Foreign Minister Steingrimur J. Sigfusson today had a meeting with Dmitry Pankin, the Russian assistant finance minister. At the meeting...
Sweden to accept Somali and Eritrean refugees
Sweden has joined a dozen fellow European nations in agreeing to UNHCR quotas for the acceptance of Eritrean and Somali refugees from camps in Sudan a...
Jail sentence for Swedish sex ring mastermind
The mastermind behind a teenage sex ring in Sweden has been found guilty of aggravated pimping charges and sentenced to four years in prison. Online n...
Download Barack Obama’s dinner invitation poster
Icenews has just obtained a full, printable version of the Barack Obama dinner invitation. As reported earlier here on Icenews, the Icelandic entrepre...
Coalition government seeks new platform in Norway
Norway’s coalition government will meet next week to discuss the possibility of a new political platform after the three parties were all returned to ...
More Icelandic support for Congo rape victims
The National Committee for UNICEF in Iceland has received ISK 8 million allocated by Iceland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs towards emergency relief in...
Sami reindeer herders to be given more freedom under new proposal
A government appointed work group has declared that the indigenous Sami population of Sweden should be granted further freedom to undertake activities...