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• Smokers facing surgery may be forced to give up

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The director-general of the Swedish Welfare Board has argued that in the periods before and after operations surgeons should be able to place demands on smokers to refrain from lighting up. Lars-Erik Holm argues that a non-smoking requirement should be as important and natural as nil by mouth or weight loss ...
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• Will Robbie Rotten win out?

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  One of the world’s favourite Icelandic exports, the children’s television show Lazy Town, could be forced off the air if parent company Lazy Town Entertainment cannot service its large debts. Lazy Town Entertainment is in a debt hole amounting to around GBP 15 million and is in discussions with creditors to find ...
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• Bill Clinton could lead Iceland

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The publisher of Iceland’s DV newspaper and former aide to the Prime Minister, Hreinn Loftsson says in an opinion piece that the Icesave question will not be satisfactorily answered without the assistance of high-level and impartial international help. He believes Althingi and the Icelandic government should ask ...
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• Danish school bans pupils from speaking foreign languages

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  A school in Odense on the Danish island of Funen has prohibited students from speaking in their own languages during break time. Pupils at Seden School have had the ban enforced after a recent series of incidents involving bilingual students who are alleged to have harassed and shouted at fellow students and ...
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• Obama and Medvedev to visit Iceland?

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Barack Obama, the President of the United States, will visit Iceland if Reykjavik is chosen as the location for the signing of a new nuclear weapons reduction treaty with Russia. Kristjan Guy Burgess, assistant to Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, said in an interview with Visir.is that no decision have yet ...
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• Swedish residency permits for sale on the black market

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Residence permits for Sweden are available on the black market for just EUR 2,000, which would then allow the buyer to travel freely across Europe. Swedish radio network Sverigies Radio (SR) announced the news which was later reported in The Local. The Swedish residence permits that are available on the black ...
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• Icelandic women charged with human trafficking

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Two women accused of human trafficking prostitutes, have been put into custody without bail until 11th December. Their victims in the case number at least three and police are also investigating those purchasing the sexual services that were on offer. Reykjavik Police have been investigating the case for several ...
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• Norway searches for gingerbread town vandals

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Bergen’s traditional Christmas decoration – a gingerbread village – has been crushed, literally, by vandals who covered the crumbled ruins with paint and foam from a fire extinguisher. Local police have appealed to the public to help them sniff out any cookie-scented criminals after the 650-house town was ...
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• Calls for increased transparency at Icelandic pension funds

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Icelandic MPs from three political parties yesterday submitted a bill intended to force the country’s pension funds to accept more democracy, transparency, supervision and direct intervention from fund members. According to the bill, upon which Progressive Party MP Eyglo Hardardottir is the lead name, fund members ...
  3 days ago

• Scandinavian journalists criticise Icelandic media

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The journalists’ associations of Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark released a joint statement this week saying they have strong reservations about developments in the Icelandic media since the banking crisis, especially the hiring of David Oddsson as editor of daily newspaper Morgunbladid. The joint statement ...
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• The alarming rise of pig abuse in Denmark

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  In Denmark, an increasingly high number of pigs are arriving at slaughterhouses with visible injuries caused from being beaten with planks and chains. Copenhagen Post reports that the reason for the growing rate of abuse may be the new system, introduced in 2006, which rewards the fast loading of animals onto ...
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• Reykjavik dims lights, saves money

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Reykjavik city plans to save ISK 45 million per year by cutting back on street lighting, according to Sighvatur Arnarsson, head of the city’s Asset Management department. The city is making the savings by setting its automatic light sensors to trigger street lights with lower levels of ambient daylight – down to ...
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• Archaeologists celebrate ancient Scandinavian settlement find

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  An important new find by a team of Swedish archaeologists indicates that the Finland-Sweden border area around the Torne River Valley was inhabited up to 11,000 years ago. The discovery, located near Pajala in Sweden’s far north, is the oldest settlement to be found in the county of Norrbotten, according to ...
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• Independence Party regaining Iceland’s support

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  The Independence Party is now the most popular in Reykjavik, according to the latest Gallup poll. Iceland’s Independence Party received 39 percent support, while 34 percent of respondents said they would vote for the Social Democrats. The Left Green Movement came next with 21 percent and the Progressive Party ...
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• Helsinki named World Design Capital for 2012

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Helsinki has been awarded the title of World Design Capital for 2012 at the World Design Congress held in Singapore last week. The Finnish capital beat out competition from the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven. Organised by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, the World Design Capital (WDC) ...
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• Iceland asked to help set mackerel quota

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Icelandic Minister for Fisheries, Jon Bjarnason has officially recognised an invitation sent to him from the European Union, the Faroe Islands and Norway asking Iceland to participate in Mackerel quota setting in the Northeast Atlantic. The meeting will take place March and this is the first time Iceland has been ...
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• Woman charged for stabbing child

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  Iceland’s State Prosecutor has charged a woman for stabbing a five year-old girl in the chest with a knife. Selma Gudnadottir admitted to stabbing the young girl shortly after the event on 27th September. The attack took place at the child’s home in Reykjanes, southwest Iceland. Gudnadottir was today charged ...
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• Swedish murder case reopened with elk as prime suspect

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  A former murder case involving a 63-year-old Swedish woman from the southern Smaland region has been reopened by local police who now suspect that the killer was an elk. The body of the woman was found in September 2008 next to a lake nearby the village of Loftahammar. She was last seen as she took her family dog ...
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• Kaupthing creditors own majority of Arion: confirmation

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 510
  (PRESS RELEASE from the Kaupthing resolution committee:) The Resolution Committee of Kaupthing Bank contributes up to ISK 66 billion in common equity The Resolution Committee of Kaupthing Bank has, in consultation with the creditors and being supported by its financial advisor throughout the process, decided that ...
  6 days ago

• MBL Infrastructures IPO subscribed 1.97 times

  
  Dead Presidents! - India Equity Research — Authority: 454
  Receives bids for 95.77 lakh shares as against 48.6 lakh shares on offer.Construction firm MBL Infrastructures initial public offering (IPO) was subscribed 1.97 times, NSE data showed. The IPO received bids for 95.77 lakh shares as against 48.6 lakh shares on offer. The price band for the IPO has been fixed at Rs 165 ...
  6 days ago

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