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Mon, 31 Oct 2022 23:50:00 +0000
Mowi buys shares in Arctic Fish
The Norwegian aquaculture giant Mowi is planning to buy shares in Arctic Fish for 26 billion ISK. After the acquisition Mowi will be in control of 51.28% of Arctic Fish shares.

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:45:00 +0000
Nakamura took home the first prize
The American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura won the Fischer Randcom Chess Tournament that ended Sunday night in Reykjavík. The winner of the final was Hikaru Nakamura, defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in armageddon after drawing the match 2-2. He is the...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 22:02:00 +0000
Eliminating jobs at the management level
The ten full-time jobs of directors of Landspítali will be eliminated while the number of managers will increase from eight to eleven according to the new hospital’s organizational chart.

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000
Tulipop Tales going international
The exhibition rights for the animated TV series Tulipop Tales have already been sold to ten countries. Apart from Iceland, the TV seriesis already showing in Norway. In other countries, such as Finland, Canada, Poland, South Africa and the Middle...

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 19:00:00 +0000
A memorial to honor the "herring girls"
The government has decided to support the creation of a memorial to the role of “herring girls” in the economic and employment of Icelandic women in the last century with 15 million ISK. The memorial will be placed on a specially built area at...

Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:54:00 +0000
From Love Island to Iceland
The reality star Jacques O'Neill is in Iceland with an entourage of influencers. O'Neill took part in the last season of the popular Love Island show and was in a relationship with Page Thorne.

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 23:00:00 +0000
Four men charged in a major cocaine case
The district attorney's office has charged four men in a major cocaine case first reported last August. One hundred kilos of cocaine were to be shipped to the country by shipment of timber from Brazil with a stopover in the Netherlands.

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:59:00 +0000
“Difficult to be queer in Slovakia”
The President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and First Lady Eliza Reid are expected to arrive late tonight after an official visit to Slovakia. Guðni says that the visit has been extremely successful and that it will strengthen the bond betwe...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 23:48:00 +0000
"Bringing environmentally friendly Icelandic technology to the global market"
The Icelandic company Carbon Recycling International (CRI) has helped set up the world's largest chemical plant in China that uses carbon dioxide emissions as material for chemical processing.

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:12:00 +0000
A pillar of smoke was seen near Akranes
A fire occurred in the container area of the recycling operation Terra just outside Akranes, and heavy smoke was visible from the capital area this afternoon.

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:23:00 +0000
Lost to an eight year old boy
The President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, lost to eight-year-old boy Haukur Haukur in a chess match at the Fisher Random chess tournament, currently in Reykjavík.

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:15:00 +0000
All invited, except the disabled?
All invited, except the disabled? is the title of a new accessibility campaign by Sjálfsbjörg, the national federation of physically disabled people, designed to raise awareness of the fact that without adequate accessibility, disabled people ar...

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:30:00 +0000
A body was found in Skeifan tonight
“Yes, there was a body that was found and we don't think there was foul play,” the Chief Inspector of the Capital Region Police, Rafn Hilmar Guðmundsson, told mbl.is about a body found in Skeifan area in Reykjavík this evening. The body ...

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:28:00 +0000
Actor deported and the show postponed
The performances of the theatrical show The Snake has been postponed at Borgarleikhúsið, because an actor from the play was deported. This is confirmed by Hlynur Páll Páll Pállsson, communications director of Borgarleikhúsið, in a conversat...

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0000
Immigration is changing the age distribution in the country
“There has been a lot of talk about the Icelandic population getting older, so proportionally more people are nearing retirement age and then subsequently fewer people are in the labor market. It’s a challenge, of course, but it now seems to m...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:28:00 +0000
21 M ISK for the winner
Many of the world’s best chess players compete in the World Fischer Random Chess Tournament, which begins at the Hotel Natura in Reykjavík tomorrow in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the duel between the grandmasters Fischer and Spassky....

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 10:13:00 +0000
1400 quakes since Saturday
In total there have 1,400 earthquakes occurred in the vicinity of Herðubreið since the earthquakes started last Saturday. Of these, nearly 200 have occurred since midnight. Apart from the largest earthquake of 4.1M that struck on Saturday night,...

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0000
Hörður investigates brutal murders
“I am doing fine, the workday is a bit long these days, but anything is possible,” says Stefán Máni, a crime novelist from Ólafsvík, after his latest novel was published on Friday. The book is called Hungur, or Hunger in English.

Sat, 22 Oct 2022 14:14:00 +0000
"There is no beauty in this"
Landlords are expected to meet in early November for discussing the issue of Kirkjufell in Grundarfjörður, according to landowner Jóhannes Þorvarðarson. The land in Kirkjufell is divided into three holdings, and Jóhannes says it takes time t...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:00:00 +0000
Successful training session with the Danes and the Faroese
The crew of the Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Þór trained this week with the crews of the Brimil, the Faroese Coast Guard, and Vædderen, the Danish navy’s patrol vessel, off the Faroe Islands coast.



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