26 JulSigurgeir Svanbergsson managed to swim from the Westman Islands to Landeyjasandur to raise money for the Association Barnaheill like he set out to do.
22 JulThe police in Reykjavík arrested a ukranian woman for painting on the fence and on the pavement outside of the Russian Embassy at Túngata 24 yesterday.
22 JulDuring the last twelve months the Customer Price Index (CPI) risen to 9.9% and the index without including properties is 7.5%. This is reported in the latest data from Statistics Iceland.
21 JulThe Icelandic company Carbfix gets the highest EU grant any Icelandic company has been awarded from the EU Innovation Fund.The grant is 16 billion ISK and is for the development and building of Coda Terminal plant in Straumsvík. This will be the first plant of its sort in the world.
20 JulWillum Þór Þórsson the Minister of Health is proposing a bill that decriminalizes small doses of drugs that are clearly for personal use. A very similar bill put forth by the previous Minister of Health, Svandís Svavarsdóttir, did not make it into legislation last year.
20 JulThe Icelandic journalist Valur Gunnarsson was stopped by an army police and taken to a guard post in the Ukranian city Odessa on Monday night. He says the whole ordeal ended well, because the Ukranian know that their only chance of surviving is to maintain the support of Western countries and that means keeping the goodwill of journalists in the country.
5 JulThe Prime Ministers of Denmark, Iceland and Norway issued a joint statement saying that everything is ready for NATO to ratify Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO.
4 JulWith inflation at an all time high and the Central Bank raising the key interest rate up to 4.75% to try to cool the market and get the inflation down, Icelanders will have to pay a lot more into their mortgages every month than before.
1 JulSales of new cars is up 50% compared to the same time last year. There have 9,268 new cars been sold, but last year at the same time the number was 6,042.
1 Jul“My opinion is that online shopping with alcohol is something to celebrate because the system we have had regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages is outdated and doesn´t serve the needs of modern Iceland,” says Bjarni Benediktsson Minister of Finance in an interview with mbl.is.
30 JunThe first phase of the project City Line has pushed back two years and will be in two stages. In an updated schedule that was announced today, the line from Hamraborg to downtown will be ready in 2026 and the line from Ártúnshöfði to downtown will be ready a year later in 2027.
30 JunKatrín Jakobsdóttir the Prime Minister of Iceland said it was a historical moment yesterday when Finland and Sweden made a pact with Turkey regarding their application to NATO.
27 JunKatrín Jakobsdóttir's comment in regard to the overthrowing of the US Supreme Court of Roe vs. Wade caught the attention of foreign media, especially in the United States.
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