Iceland

At least five public broadcasters in Europe — Ireland, Slovenia, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Spain — have in the past two weeks declared they would not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest if longstanding entrant Israel remains part of the competition.

The president of Iceland’s National Broadcaster (RÚV), Stefán Jón Hafstein, published a commentary on Tuesday calling for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest – and suggested that, in the event that the ban was impossible, the contest could allow Israeli singers to participate without their national flags.

European leaders flocked to Ukraine on Monday to pledge their support on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, badly rattled by President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Russia and public feud with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Icelanders are electing a new parliament Saturday after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the economy forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government and call an early election.

Icelandic officials are pulling back on their former support for Venezuelan migrants and even deported 180 recent immigrants.

Halla Tómasdóttir, a diversity and inclusion-promoting businesswoman and investor, has won Iceland’s presidential election.

A volcanic eruption on Saturday evening in Iceland near the town of Grindavik prompted evacuations.

Houses have been hit by lava flows in southwestern Iceland as a long-dormant volcano erupts for the second time.

A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland for the second time in less than a month, sending semi-molten rock toward a nearby settlement.

The night sky was filled with a spectacular red flash in south western Iceland as a volcano erupted, prompting a further evacuation. 

Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir said she will join women walking off the job to protest the widely disputed gender wage gap.

CARACAS – Hundreds of Venezuelans that have fled Bolivarian socialism have sought asylum in Iceland, seeking to start a new life in an entirely different country with major cultural, linguistic, and economic barriers.

The country of Iceland recently parodied Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse announcement in an ad for the country’s tourism services. Facebook’s dreams of separating itself from numerous scandals with a name change continue to be dashed.

Norway on Friday reached a trade deal with Britain following the country’s departure from the bloc last year.

FAGRADALSFJALL VOLCANO, Iceland (AP) — Pandemic or no pandemic, the world will never stand still. That’s perhaps no clearer than in Iceland, where a volcano has awoken from a slumber that has lasted 6,000 years, give or take a year or two.

Southwest Iceland has experienced over 20,000 earthquakes since February 24, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

The Church of Iceland has raised eyebrows with a Sunday School advert depicting Jesus Christ sporting a long beard and bouncing breasts.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó invited ambassadors from the Scandinavian countries to a meeting after their foreign ministers signed a letter slamming Hungary’s Wuhan coronavirus response. Szijjártó accused Denmark, Finland, Iceland Norway and Sweden of “spreading false news” about Hungary’s coronavirus lockdown

An Icelandair pilot used his plane Sunday to thank healthcare workers battling the coronavirus pandemic in Reykjavík, Iceland.

A laboratory in Iceland found through wide-scale testing for the Chinese coronavirus that roughly 50 percent of people who test positive have no symptoms, which may offer some insight into how asymptomatic people are playing a role in spreading the disease.

Climate is always changing and humans are always adapting, writes Iceland’s former prime minister, so people should stop spreading irrational panic over global warming.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte took the opportunity of a speech on family planning Tuesday to lambaste Iceland and “white” people generally, citing Iceland’s extremely high abortion rates and cursing the country to “freeze in time.”

Icelandic officials joined climate change activists Sunday in bidding farewell to the nation’s first extinct glacier in what was touted as a “funeral” service for the ice mass.

Turkish officials launched a furious attack against Iceland on Sunday, claiming the national football team was given “disrespectful” treatment at Reykjavik airport with “racist”, “rude”, and “offensive” service allegedly meted out by local immigration officers.

TEL AVIV – Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists on Saturday “overwhelmingly” rejected a pro-Palestinian gesture from Iceland’s anti-capitalist bondage-clad entrant to the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. 

ROVANIEMI, FINLAND — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Finland on Monday for an Arctic Council ministerial. During the visit he will meet with seven heads of state in the region and reinforce the United States’ commitment to the Arctic amid a growing Chinese presence.

Elite elementary schools in Iceland are teaching boys to put on nail polish and give each other full body massages while girls are discouraged from crying to counter gendered behaviours.

The great thing about puffin stories is that they give you the perfect excuse to run a jolly picture of a puffin at the top. Everyone loves puffins, some – if you’re Icelandic – because they’re a tasty delicacy, others because, with their distinctive stripy beaks they look so attractive and charming and cute.

Iceland’s independence is viewed as a “nuisance” by the European Union (EU) as it pushes to become an integrated superstate and pressures the Nordic nation to accept more and more of the bloc’s rules and regulations.

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would outlaw abortions targeting babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in an effort to prevent “eugenics.”

“Everyone” wants a free trade deal with the United Kingdom after Brexit, Iceland’s foreign minister told listeners of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday.

A disturbing new report from CBS News reveals that nearly 100 percent of pregnant women in Iceland whose babies test positive for Down Syndrome wind up aborting their children.

Actress Patricia Heaton is responding to CBS’s new report that Iceland has exterminated nearly all children with Down syndrome through abortion.

Police in Iceland are investigating a poison attack on Robert Spencer, an American expert on Islam who was also the 2015 target of a jihad assault in Garland, Texas.

LONDON (AP) — Iceland will be the first country in the world to make employers prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality, the Nordic nation’s government said Wednesday – International Women’s Day.

REYKJAVIK (AFP) – Iceland’s president on Friday invited the anti-establishment Pirate Party to form a government, after both the right and left-wing parties each failed in their bids.