24 MayAlmost one-third of Icelanders buy clothes online. Furthermore, Icelanders buy four times more clothes at foreign online stores than at Icelandic clothing stores.
18 MayPresidential candidate Arnar Þór Jónsson has appealed to the Icelandic Journalists’ Union ethics committee for the cartoonist Hallur Baldursson’s caricature that was published in visir.is. This is because the cartoonist puts Arnar in an outfit that refers to Nazi uniforms.
11 MayThe Icelandic men’s national team in handball will be among the participants at the World Cup in Croatia, Denmark and Norway at the beginning of next year.
11 May“Often, the interests of the local economy and the local community have been put above their own. People go above and beyond every day to work and to survive themselves in the chaos that comes with unprepared migration. Every effort is made to minimise the damage to the children. That’s the hardest part.”
9 MayThree children have been born without professional involvement in Iceland so far this year, and there were six in the last year according to mbl.is, but the number could be higher as there are examples of parents choosing not to register their children in the system and thus there are no records of their existence.
5 MayZak Nelson and his fiancé Elliot Griffiths from the UK were just off on a long-awaited trip in Iceland when an accident occurred. A car crossed the wrong side of the road and hit the couple’s car, causing Elliot to suffer serious injuries and required operations for internal injuries. Zak, who escaped much better, sat down with a reporter and told his story.
3 MayA special effort could be made to put in place incentives for individuals and companies to install solar panels, as has been done in many of our neighboring countries.
30 AprVolcanologist Þorvaldur Þórðarson says that it seems that activity in the volcano at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row has increased overnight and there are signs that the inflation in Svartsengi has stopped.
29 AprAccording to a poll conducted by the Icelandic Centre for Social Research, Prósenta, there is a strong changing movement among the top-ranking runners for president, and this can be seen in the results of other polling firms, such as Maskína and Gallup.
27 AprThe police in Suðurnes are asking people not to go on foot to the volcanic eruption at the Sundhnúkagígar crater row. This is stated in the police’s Facebook post last night.
24 AprThe fact that tourists try to get too close to the eruption site at Sundhnúkagígar crater row is a problem that has also occurred in previous volcanic eruptions on the Reykjanes peninsula. However, no rescue teams have been called in connection with the current eruption, but it was noted that an attempt was made to drive a Dacia Duser car offroad in the area. That car is no longer in the lava field as we reported earlier.
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