(AFP) – Thousands of Icelanders took to the streets late Monday calling for their prime minister’s resignation after leaked tax documents dubbed the “Panama Papers” prompted allegations that he and his wife used an offshore firm to hide million-dollar investments.
Britain has little say over decisions made in the European Union (EU), which is increasingly dominated by Germany, the Prime Minister of Iceland has said. Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson claimed that the UK is wielding “diminishing power” within the bloc as many
The mayor of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik on Saturday said he would scrap plans for a boycott of Israeli goods, a proposal which had raised outrage in Israel and elsewhere. “I will propose to the municipal council that the idea is
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British school-children are taught to believe that global warming will be an unmitigated disaster: soaring temperatures will turn out green and pleasant land into an arid desert before it sinks beneath the waves of a rising sea. But for the
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey canceled a planned concert in Iceland because the venue did not take its meat dishes off the menu. A fan site for the singer, True to You, reports that Morrissey canceled the gig at Harpa Concert
Having lost the religious battle in Scandinavia to Christianity over 1,000 years ago, the Norse gods are making a comeback in Iceland.
