Minister of Commerce and Industry Hanna KatrínFriðriksson says it is disappointing that Iceland and Norway have not been granted an exemption from the European Union’s safeguard measures concerning silicon metal imports.

Bogi Nils Bogason, CEO of Icelandair, says that the carbon tax the airline must pay puts the company at a disadvantage compared to competitors outside Europe — and stresses that the Icelandic government must respond.

Police reports of violence against elderly people aged 67 and older have been steadily increasing in recent years. So far this year, 31 cases have been reported — already exceeding the total for all of last year, when there were 18.

Land inflation and magma accumulation beneath Svartsengi continue, though at a slower pace, according to Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, head of deformation measurements at the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

A close call at Reynisfjara Black Beach was captured on video by Magnae Malachi, a tourist who recently visited Iceland and posted the footage on TikTok.

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