Stefán Sveinsson says that more high-purity cocaine is entering the country than before, often arriving in 1 kg packages prepared in South America. Photo from mbl.is Photo Archives.

Drug mules recruited online to smuggle cocaine into Iceland

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Emergency response exercise involving Coast Guard helicopters.

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Hildur Björnsdóttir and Einar Þorsteinsson, leaders of the Independence Party and the Progressive Party in Reykjavík City Council, have expressed skepticism toward Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s proposal to impose a resource tax on those who utilize natural resources for home heating and electricity.

Opposition to resource tax on geothermal heating
Evrópa Þorgerður Katrín ætlar að móta einfaldar reglur eða leiðbeiningar um úthlutun styrkja til hagsmunasamtaka með og á móti Evrópuaðild.

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Dozens of pilot whales stranded in Ólafsfjörður
“It was an even more powerful experience than I had imagined,” Sverrisdóttir said.

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Stefán Sveinsson says that more high-purity cocaine is entering the country than before, often arriving in 1 kg packages prepared in South America. Photo from mbl.is Photo Archives.

Drug mules recruited online to smuggle cocaine into Iceland
Emergency response exercise involving Coast Guard helicopters.

Photos: Large-scale emergency exercise near Selfoss
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Dozens of pilot whales stranded in Ólafsfjörður
The father and daughter were killed at the Edition Hotel.

Police investigating whether father and daughter were asleep during attack
Hildur Björnsdóttir and Einar Þorsteinsson, leaders of the Independence Party and the Progressive Party in Reykjavík City Council, have expressed skepticism toward Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir’s proposal to impose a resource tax on those who utilize natural resources for home heating and electricity.

Opposition to resource tax on geothermal heating

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Father and son studying together

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One of the suspects in the terrorism case.

U-turn ruling in the Court of Appeals

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