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The Icelanders will fly from Jordan tonight

9 Oct 2023 A group of 120 Icelanders are still in Israel but they are expected to drive to Jordan today where they will board a plane hired by the Icelandic government that flies to Iceland. The group of Icelanders have been staying at their hotel since the attacks and have not been allowed to go outside.

The Icelanders are safe in the hotel in Jerusalem.

A group of 100 Icelanders in Israel

7 Oct 2023 “There are air-defense bunkers on each floor here, and we settled in after we saw the bomb here earlier,” Aldís Hafsteinsdóttir, the municipality’s mayor of Hrunamannahreppur, told mbl.is, but she is in a hotel in Jerusalem, Israel, with 90 other Icelanders.

Björk and Rosalia encourage people to protest tomorrow

6 Oct 2023 Singers Björk Gudmundsdottir and Rosalia encourage people to protest at Austurvöllur on Saturday, in an announcement sent to the media from Björk.

Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9 turn to shore, one with one fin whale, the other with two.

Whaling season over: 24 fin whales caught

2 Oct 2023 The whaling season has ended. The whaling vessels Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9 have arrived in with three fin whales. A total of 24 fin whales have been caught during the season.

Sigríður Dóra Magnúsdóttir, director of the Capital Region's Health Service. With cooler weather the annual autumn illnesses kick in and health authorities are feeling it with more traffic to health facilities.

Feeling the impact of autumn illnesses

29 Sep 2023 "Autumn illnesses are coming in full force and we really feel it," says Sigríður Dóra Magnúsdóttir, director of the Capital Region's Health Service, to mbl.is.

Police are going over footage from surveillance cameras among other things in the investigation of the attack on Tuesday night.

More than one might be behind the attack

28 Sep 2023 Eiríkur Valberg, a police officer with the Central Bureau of Investigation's police department in the capital area, says there are suspicions that more than one person was involved in the attack on a man who was a guest at the Samtökin 78 conference Tuesday night.

The patrol vessel Þór and Polarfront in Fonfjord in Greenland.

Patrol vessel Þór with a passenger ship in tow from Greenland

25 Sep 2023 The patrol vessel Þór arrived on the third hour to Reykjavik with the French passenger ship Polarfont in tow from Greenland.

Thought it was farfetched to go on the trip

24 Sep 2023 Last month, eleven adventurous men from Akranes went on a so-called enduro motorcycle trip to the Romanian city of Sibiu. In the group was Sveinbjörn Reyr Hjaltason, who was paralyzed below the chest in a motorcycle accident in the spring of 2020 at the foot of Akrafjall.

The grave of Guðmundur Kamban in Fossvogur cemetary.

The name of Kamban's killer finally publicly revealed

23 Sep 2023 On the day the Danes celebrated the end of the German occupation on 5 May 1945, several people were executed, without a judicial order, by members of the Danish Resistance. Among their victims was the Icelandic author Guðmundur Kamban.

Four excellent guest chefs will be showcasing their culinary art in the Westman islands at the festival.

Tasty days ahead in the Westman Islands: Seafood Festival MATEY starting

20 Sep 2023 The seafood festival MATEY will be held for the second time on September 21-23rd, with a bang. It is true that the Westman Islands are already on the world’s culinary map, and the festival has attracted a lot of attention around the world. In recent days, foreign media, foodies, and food aficionados flock to the Westman Islands to participate in the festival.

Heiður Berglind Þorsteinsdóttir is a marine engineer on the Thor offshore patrol vessel.

Found her dreamjob at sea

16 Sep 2023 Berglind Þorsteinsdóttir has always been interested in machines and how they work and always envisioned that she would end up in mechanical engineering at university level. However, she decided to pursue her interest before she was there and enrolled in engineering school at the Technical Institute and started to go out to sea. First, she was on fishing vessels, but now she works as an engineer on the patrol vessel Þór and is not going ashore anytime soon, although she has not ruled out the possibility of further studies at the university.

Daníel Jakobsson, director of business development at salmon farming company Arctic Fish.

Concerned over farmed salmon runaways

13 Sep 2023 “What is most important is that we offer to scan these rivers in question and if we find farmed salmon they are taken out,” said Daniel Jakobsson, director of business development at salmon farming company Arctic Fish, in response to questions about the release of farmed salmon from a sea cage in Kvígindisdalur valley in Patreksfjörður, revealed on August 21.

Kolbrún Benediktsdóttir, the Deputy District Prosecutor.

More grave cases of domestic violence

11 Sep 2023 Deputy District Prosecutor Kolbrún Benediktsdóttir says she sees the number of serious domestic violence cases increasing. She also says she suspects that steroid use may be linked to cases of domestic violence, although this has yet to be investigated.

The hope of a good shot a great incentive

10 Sep 2023 Jón Gauti Jónsson won the photography competition from the Icelandic travel website of mbl.is recently with the photograph “A traveller in his own world in the Kerlingarfjöll mountains. Jónsson works as a project manager for the company Icelandic Investment, but enjoys his spare time going to the mountains with the camera throughout the year.

From the Whaling station of Hvalur hf. in Hvalfjörður. From photo archives.

Caught three fin whales on the first tour

8 Sep 2023 Whaling vessels Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9 will be in harbor today with three fin whales after the first tour of the season. The fishing was successful despite blind fog and bad weather. Hvalur 8 caught one fin whale and Hvalur 9 had two fin whales.