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A letter was sent to 10 media companies in Iceland inviting them to go to Ukraine and write about the coming elections in the annexed areas this weekend.

Inviting Icelandic journalists to go to the occupied areas in Ukraine

21 Sep 2022 “This is a fund that is sponsored by the Russian state. That is all I know about it, but I am in good contact with the fund manager, a woman I have known for years, but she is one of the ministers of the self-governing area of Vasilkiv,” says Konráð Magnússon, but he sent today a letter to ten media companies in Iceland with an invitation to visit the Donbas region in Ukraine, where a referendum will take place next weekend.

The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and the first lady, Eliza Reid here at the State Funeral yesterday. Behind Jóhannesson is Joe Biden, the President of the United States and to the left you can see the French President, Emmanuel Macron.

"An honour to be a part of this historical moment on Iceland's behalf"

19 Sep 2022 "This was an impressive and a historical moment to experience the funeral of Elizabeth II. She was a monarch who has done her duties concientiously, dutifully and diligently for over 70 years," says Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the President of Iceland to mbl.is.

Here is Alba González cooking bacalao in the Salt kitchen.

"I'm in love with your country"

18 Sep 2022 "I was surprised by how important fish is for Iceland and how excellent the product is and how it is processed," said the Spanish culinary student Alba González. She is one of the winners in a culinary competition amongst South-European culinary students in cooking salted cod, bacalao. She says there is no doubt in her mind that she will visit the country again.

Líney Sigurðardóttir with a broken leg at home in Þórshöfn with her grandson.

Discharged in dire distress and told to get a hotel

12 Sep 2022 Morgunblaðið published yesterday the story of a woman who had the misfortune of breaking her leg badly last Saturday. Líney Sigurðardóttir lives in Þórshöfn up north and she says that she got a lot of reactions to her story in the paper. She says she is not the only one who has been sent away in dire need from the hospital in Akureyri.

Star Sævar in front of the ALMA series of Telescopes, 5000 metres above sea level in Chile.

Star Sævar started enlightening the public about science when he was still a teenager

10 Sep 2022 „This started really early. I remember walking to school when I was six years old in Hafnarfjörður and I was watching the stars in the sky,“ says Sævar Helgi Bragason, a science aficionado, journalist, writer, geologist and a resident of Planet Earth.

Queen Elizabeth II with Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, then President of Iceland at Austurvöllur in June 1990.

Vigdís remembering Queen Elizabeth II

9 Sep 2022 "She was a wonderful person and I really cared for her. I will miss her a lot," said Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the former President of Iceland yesterday.

"Want to put the Westman Islands on the Culinary map"

8 Sep 2022 The Food Festival Matey starts today in the Westman Islands and ends next Saturday and there will be a big seafood feast in the islands. The Westman Islands already house some of the best restaurants in the country and more people are making a point of going there to have a culinary adventure in the great setting of the islands. The Westman Islands were nominated to the nordic Embla awards as The best culinary destination in Scandinavia.

Gunnar Karl Gíslason recently opened the restaurant North in Akureyri.

North has been fully booked since it opened

4 Sep 2022 Recently the restaurant North opened in Akureyri, and it is the brainchild of Gunnar Karl Gíslason, masterchef and then some, but he is the man behind the Michelin restaurant Dill in Reykjavík. As it would be expected by Gunnar Karl and his team, North looks fabulous.

Raising money for the family

1 Sep 2022 Fundraising has started for the family of Eva Hrund Pétursdóttir who died in the shooting attack in Blönduós on 21st of August.

Svartaborg Luxury Villas are designed in a Scandinavian style and were built in 2020.

Svartaborg Luxury Villas get rave reviews

28 Aug 2022 Svartaborg Luxury Villas in the North gets raving reviews in the American travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler. The journalist Erika Owen writes that Svartaborg is her all time favourite Icelandic Airbnb venue in Iceland.

The presidents of the Baltic countries visit Iceland next Thursday

23 Aug 2022 The presidents of the Baltic countries, Estonia, Lativia and Lithuania are coming on an official visit to Iceland next Thursday. Their spouses and an entourage will come with the presidents.

Ingibjörg Gréta grateful for having good people in her life.

When breaking an ankle is turned into a positive experience

13 Aug 2022 Ingibjörg Gréta is a woman who loves hiking and being in the great outdoors. Her new favourite place in the world is Hornstrandir and she had planned three out of four long hikes there this summer. However, things do not always go according to plan. Things changed when she slipped down a slippery stone and broke her ankle.