8 FebUS Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo will be coming to Iceland next week to meet with Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and Foreign Minister Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson. They will be discussing economic relations between Iceland and the US and matters regarding the Arctic.
15 Dec 2016Iceland’s main international airline Icelandair can trace its roots back almost eight decades and has worked closely with American aircraft manufacturer Boeing throughout its history.
13 Dec 2016Silence of the Sea by Icelandic crime novelist Yrsa Sigurðardóttir has been name one of the five best mystery books of 2016 by the Boston Globe – the only foreign-language book to make the grade.
6 Dec 2016Just over 132,000 foreign tourists were counted departing from Iceland’s main international airport last month – up a staggering 61.4% on November 2015.
5 Dec 2016A strengthening national currency and rising prices mean that Iceland has by now probably toppled Switzerland from the top spot of richest countries in the world, figures suggest.
16 Nov 2016Last Saturday saw a hugely successful Icelandic event in the United States – the Icelandic Association of Washington DC’s annual Christmas Bazaar.
16 Nov 2016Delta Air Lines is now operating its first ever winter schedule between Iceland’s Keflavik International Airport and New York John F. Kennedy International Airport.
16 Nov 2016The advent of Donald Trump as new President of the United States could affect future American trade in Iceland exports, according to Iceland economists.
14 Nov 2016Various Icelandic social organisations have organised a gathering outside the US embassy in Reykjavik this afternoon in solidarity with marginalised groups in America.
10 Nov 2016Icelandic online marketing agency The Engine has posted a rather telling graph related to online searches on election night in the US on Tuesday.
7 Nov 2016The US government has identified Iceland’s main international airport as one of several candidate airports to bring in US customs and passport controls.
5 Oct 2016Icelandic flag carrier Icelandair has announced new scheduled routes to the US cities of Philadelphia and Tampa which get under way next year.
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