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• UK Anglicans ignore lesbian archbishop ordination

  
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  English and Northern Irish bishops have snubbed an invitation to be present at the ordination of the next Bishop of Stockholm, Eva Brunne, due to her openly gay status. “The Anglican Church has a moratorium right now concerning the ordination of bishops who live together with someone of the same sex,” said Alan ...
  18 hours ago

• New Icelandic supermarket brings politics to the high street

  
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  Icelandic businessman and political campaigner, Jon Gerald Sullenberger promised last December to open a new low cost supermarket in Iceland to rival Bonus. The new store opened yesterday under the name Kostur – but it was not an easy birth. Due to open at 11 yesterday morning in Kopavogur, Kostur was unable to ...
  18 hours ago

• Conference investigates high male youth suicide rates

  
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  An international conference held in Nuuk has sought to understand why so many young men in the circumpolar region take their own lives. Despite declining overall rates in recent years, in Greenland and in other Arctic territories, around two-thirds of all suicides are performed by young males aged 15-25. Siku News ...
  20 hours ago

• Hostels and budget hotels in all of the Scandinavian Languages

  
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  Online booking services HostelBookers has launched eight new languages on its website among them Danish , Norwegian and Swedish in an attempt to provide a better quality of service to its Scandinavian customers. This is done after a recent research carried out by Reed Business Insight . revealed that it was ...
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• Hostels and budget hotels in all of the Scandinavian Languages

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 530
  Online booking services HostelBookers has launched eight new languages on its website among them Danish , Norwegian and Swedish in an attempt to provide a better quality of service to its Scandinavian customers. This is done after a recent research carried out by Reed Business Insight . revealed that it was ...
  1 day ago

• Indian electric cars to be made in Iceland?

  
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  India’s Reva Electric Car Company this week announced it wants to establish an assembly plant in Iceland. Reva is working with investment firm Northern Light Energy for the project and hopes to be able to start developing electric vehicles in Iceland. “Iceland is being considered by Reva as a possible site for a ...
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• Finnish traditionalists moved to action over crucifix ruling

  
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  Last week the European Human Rights Court (ECHR) ruled that Italy was to remove all crucifixes from state school classroom walls. The decision sparked immediate response from Finland’s institutions, which defended traditions found in culture and history. “Traditions are also part of the Finnish culture. In our ...
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• Iceland holds national meeting

  
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  A group of 1,200 Icelanders considered statistically representative of the population are being brought together today for the first time in an attempt to “harvest the wisdom of the crowd”. The group of people aged 18 and over were picked randomly from the national registry to be invited to attend the event at ...
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• Swedish Samaritan jailed for saving assaulted woman

  
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  A Swedish man who saved a woman from assault has been sentenced to prison rather than being applauded for performing a civic duty. In a case which has provoked outrage across the country, Per-Anders Pettersson was found guilty of aggravated assault despite the would-be Samaritan’s claims he was acting in ...
  2 days ago

• Iceland considers changes to voting rules

  
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  Bjorgvin G. Sigurdsson, Icelandic Social Democrat MP, intends to submit a bill to parliament which would see the country changed from six parliamentary voting districts into just one. Sigurdsson told Bylgjan Radio that he has written a draft bill and sent it to the leaders of all the parties represented in the ...
  2 days ago

• Shelter for climate summit activists needed

  
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  Up to 10,000 activists will require temporary shelters when they travel to Copenhagen for the upcoming United Nations Climate Summit. With the region moving rapidly towards winter, the Danish government is concerned that activists who will congregate from around the world will risk sleeping out in the open or even ...
  2 days ago

• Icelander and Norwegian share big lotto payout

  
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  An Icelander won last night’s Vikingalotto jackpot. The rolled-over jackpot was shared between two lucky ticket holders – the Icelandic one earning him/herself a cool ISK 107 million. The ticket was bought in the Video Market at Hamraborg in Kopavogur, DV reports. This is the 15th time an Icelander has won the ...
  3 days ago

• Norway seeks WTO assistance on EU seal product ban

  
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  The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been formally requested by Norway to intervene in settling dispute consultations with the EU regarding their ban on the trading of seal products, which Norway claims contravene rules laid down by the WTO itself. “In our view, the EU decision is contrary to WTO rules on a ...
  3 days ago

• Bitter tears over fond Fanta Lemon farewell

  
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  “I’ve known about this for a little while. These are naturally sad times for us lemon men,” says Henry Birgir Gunnarsson, sports journalist with Frettabladid and one of Iceland’s premier Fanta Lemon drinkers. Fanta Lemon is due to be removed from sale shortly, despite remaining popular. When the drink was ...
  3 days ago

• Reykjavik city councillors paid well

  
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  The basic salary of a Reykjavik city councillor with the addition of various extras can be close to ISK 1 million a month (USD 8,020 at today’s rate but closer to 12,000 before the banking crisis) a month. In addition, the city pays each and every council member ISK 300,000 per year for phone bills. The mayor earns ...
  3 days ago

• Finland approves Nord Stream pipeline

  
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  The Finnish government last week approved the proposal for the construction of the 1,220 kilometre Nord Stream natural gas pipeline which will be routed across the country’s territorial waters. However, the approval came with the precondition from the government that measures must be taken by Nord Stream to ...
  4 days ago

• Iceland’s “crazy” new tax plans

  
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  Head of Iceland’s Independence Party, Bjarni Benediktsson yesterday described the government’s tax plans as “crazy”. He told the Althingi parliament that the future of Iceland’s tax system should be discussed right away. It was not; but it was decided to debate taxes on Friday. Yesterday’s parliament ...
  4 days ago

• No penalty for man who filmed naked children

  
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  Swedish authorities have failed to punish a 29-year-old summer camp counsellor who secretly filmed naked children. The man evaded prosecution by fleeing to Thailand until the expiry of the statute of limitations for his crimes reports The Local. In June 2007 the man was arrested after he was discovered recording ...
  4 days ago

• Ossur chief rings bell on Wall Street

  
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  Jon Sigurdsson, president of Icelandic prosthetics company Ossur, had the honour of ringing the bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange on Wall Street in New York to mark the end of trading yesterday evening. Share prices rose considerably yesterday on Wall Street: the Dow Jones was up 2.04 percent at 10,227 points and ...
  5 days ago

• Iceland football boss victim of erotic criminals

  
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  The president of the Icelandic Football Association (KSI), Geir Thorsteinsson says that all evidence indicates that the Association’s finance secretary was a victim of organised criminals when he visited a strip club in Zurich. Thorsteinsson said on RUV television last night that he and Palmi Jonsson had been in ...
  5 days ago

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