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Dissolves parliament and calls for elections

15 Oct Halla Tómasdóttir, the President of Iceland, intends to agree to the Prime Minister's request to dissolve Parliament. She plans to announce a break in Alþingi on October 17, and subsequent elections will be called on November 30.

Bjarni Benediktsson at the Press meeting today.

The government’s cooperation has been terminated

13 Oct The government cooperation between the Independence Party, the Progressive Party, and the Left-Green Movement has been terminated. This is reported by Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson at a meeting in the Cabinet.

Over 100 electricity meters were destroyed

8 Oct Rarik must replace over 100 electricity meters damaged in last week's widespread power outages.

Bjarni Benediktsson, Prime Minister (Independence Party) Svandís Svavarsdóttir, Minister of Infrastructure and Sigurður Ingi Jóhannesson, Minister of Finances (Progressive Party). All three are leading their parties.

Svavarsdóttir: "Of course we need to talk"

7 Oct Svandís Svavarsdóttir, the newly elected chairman of the Left-Green Movement, says she does not believe that the resolution that was approved yesterday at the party’s national meeting is a ticket for more difficult cooperation between government parties until spring.

Trine Dyrholm has enjoyed staying in Iceland and she likes the swimming pools, the hot tubs in Hvammsvík, and the Northern Lights.

Not a typical Danish woman

6 Oct All days are long for Danish actress Trine Dyrholm, now working hard to play a Danish woman for director and screenwriter Benedikt Erlingsson. The only time to chat was in the evening and Dyrholm and I met at a hotel in the city center after a long day of work on set. Dyrholm is well known in her home country and beyond, as she has starred in numerous films and TV shows since 1990 when she was only eighteen years old. Icelanders probably know her best from the show The Legacy and films such as Margrete: Queen of the North, where she played opposite the Icelandic actress, Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir. Dyrholm had only been to Iceland once before, three years ago at RIFF, Reykjavik International Film Festival. Then she only stopped for four days, but now she has lived here for three months.

Ólafur Jóhann Borgþórsson, priest in Seljakirkja Church, has been hired as the new managing director of Herjólfur Ferry.

The man of God who will lead Herjólfur Ferry

3 Oct "I am from the Westman Islands, so I know Herjólfur's staff well and know that the company is well run. I decided at the time to give it a go and apply for the job, but I have to admit that when I got the call that I got it, it was a big surprise."

According to information from Rarik the power outage is affecting a big part of the country.

Power outages in the North and East

2 Oct A large area of the country is without electricity. The power outage extends from the Westfjords, across the North and all of the Eastfjords. Work is in progress restoring the system.

Ice cave tours can start again

1 Oct The board of Vatnajökull National Park has agreed to allow ice cave tours on the glacier again. There have been no ice cave tours in the area of the national park since an American man died in an accident during such a trip on Breiðamerkurjökull glacier at the end of August.

Has founded a new political party

30 Sep Arnar Þór Jónsson, a lawyer and former presidential candidate, has founded a new political party called Lýðræðisflokkurinn or the Democratic Party - an organization for self-determination.

According to scientists, lava shields form in one long eruption.

The chance of a shield eruption seems to be increasing

30 Sep The probability of a shield eruption in the Sundhnúkagígar crater row increases with time. That would mean that the Reykjanesbraut Road is not the only infrastructure on the Reykjanes Peninsula that is in danger. Such an eruption could last for several years or even decades.

Overturned a false confession in England

29 Sep "In 1991, I was asked to give an IQ test to Oliver Campbell, there were two of us who came up with this, a psychiatrist and I, and my part was somewhat limited," says Gísli Guðjónsson, professor emeritus of forensic psychology at King's College University in London and expert in false confessions, in an interview with Morgunblaðið about a more than a three-decade-old case that turned an innocent man's life upside down.

One of the areas where ÞG Verk is building is in Urriðaholt in Garðabær.

Signs of a cooling housing market

26 Sep Þorvaldur Gissurarson, the CEO of ÞG Verk, says that the housing market has cooled down in recent weeks. However, it is premature to draw too many conclusions based on the sales of the last few weeks. A real estate agent that Morgunblaðið spoke to said the same thing, that the market had been slowing down recently. He believed that the main explanation was that the banks had raised interest rates on indexed housing loans.

The owners of the circular economy stores say that this is the future of commerce in Iceland.

They think they have changed the purchasing behavior of Icelanders

22 Sep So-called circular economy shops are becoming increasingly popular in this country, and in most of them, you have to book a stand several months in advance. A circular economy shop is a store where you can shop and sell used items such as clothing, shoes, and household goods. Usually the seller rents a booth, and sets up the products, but does not have to be on duty himself. The service to the seller then varies between stores.

The polar bear was taken down with one shot.

The only way was to kill the bear

20 Sep The only way to ensure the safety of people on Höfðaströnd was to kill the polar bear that walked ashore there yesterday. This is what Hlynur Hafberg Snorrason, a senior police officer at the police in Vestfjörður, says in an interview with mbl.is.

Grímur Grímsson, yfirlögregluþjónn miðlægrar rannsóknardeildar á höfuðborgarsvæðinu.

Nothing to suggest that the father kidnapped his daughter

17 Sep "There is nothing to suggest other than that they were in normal communication that day and he had permission to be with his daughter," says Grímur Grímsson, senior police officer of the central investigation department in the capital area, about the man who is now in police custody as a suspect about killing his 10-year-old daughter Sunday night.