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Iceland

Type: Country

Name: Iceland

population: 294,947

First reported 33 mins ago - Updated 33 mins ago - 1 reports

European Union

Iceland leader snubs EU membership

BRUSSELS - Iceland’s bid to join the EU has come to an end, Iceland’s centre-right independence party leader Bjarni Benediktsson has said.The eurosceptic politician made the statement in an interview with Icelandic news outlet mbl.is on Tuesday (21 M ... [Published EUobserver - 33 mins ago]

Entities: European Union, Iceland, Bjarni Benediktsson

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson

Iceland beats economic woes

President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson says the people of Iceland are not paying for the collapse of the economy. ... [Published CNN - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Leatherhead students from St John's School visit Iceland

ANYONE might assume that, after such a long winter, the last place young people would choose to spend their time would be a country barely outside the Arctic Circle.However, a group of students from St John's School, in Leatherhead, did exactly that, ... [Published This is Surrey - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Iceland, Sally Hunt, Eyjafjallajökull, Geographer

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 3 reports

Tourists drift away while dining on ice floe

If you're dining on an ice floe, first be sure it's firmly attached to land. If not, you might end up like a group of American tourists who had to be rescued after they floated 10 meters (33 feet) from shore.The Iceland Review reports that the travelers, ... [Published The News International - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland), Lagoon

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 3 reports

WikiLeaks

Bradley Manning trial to be closed for some testimony: judge

Topics: Bradley Manning ♦ WikileaksLike Raw Story on FacebookSome testimony in the espionage trial of a US soldier who passed secret files to WikiLeaks will be held behind closed doors to safeguard classified information, a US judge ruled Tuesday.Evidence ... [Published Raw Story - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Bradley Manning, Testimony, WikiLeaks

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Wind Power In 100 Countries (Thanks, Iceland!)

It was Iceland , which pretty much runs on hydro and geothermal power, that brought wind power to an impressive new level of global deployment in 2012.The installation of two 900-kilowatt turbines in the Burfell area of south Iceland last December ... [Published EarthTechling - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Iceland, Wind Power, Landsvirkjun

First reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 1 reports

The Simpsons Go Iceland (feat. Sigur Rós) almost-LIVEBLOG!

Photos by The Simpsons episodeFirst, all our vast fortunes just sort of up and vanished for no discernible reason (we are finally working on locating our riches again after years of inaction, having just voted in the parties that somehow misplaced them ... [Published Rekjavik Grapevine - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Iceland, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Reykjavik (Iceland)

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Icelandic music festival Reykjavik Music Mess to take place this weekend

The annual Icelandic music festival Reykjavik Music Mess is set to take place this weekend (May 24-26) at Volta and Kex Hostel in downtown Reykjavik, Iceland. The 3-day event – sponsored by Kex Hostel, City of Reykjavik, and more – will be hosting ... [Published IceNews - Daily News - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Reykjavik (Iceland), Stafrænn Hákon, United Kingdom, Iceland

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 reports

Iceland’s post-Crisis economy: A myth or a miracle?

Icelandic voters recently ejected its post-Crisis government – a government that successfully avoided economic collapse when the odds were stacked against it. The new government comprises the same parties that were originally responsible for the Crisis. ... [Published VOX - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Iceland, Icesave Bank, Crisis, International Monetary Fund

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 reports

Mackerel claims or cod psychology?

THE Federation of the Icelandic Fishing Vessel Owners has condemned the Marine Conservation Society's (MCS) decision to rate the Icelandic mackerel fisheries as least sustainable.The owners point out that, according to the United Nations Convention on ... [Published fishnewseu.com - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Mackerel, Iceland, Faroe Islands

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Brilliance of the Seas returns all 'revitalised'

'On the Rocks' will usually find you heading for the ship's cocktail bar but Royal Caribbean hope to shake up all cruise preconceptions when holidaymakers board the new 'revitalised' Brilliance of the Seas, writes Diane Evans.The cruise line has invested ... [Published Travel Mole - May 21 2013]

Entities: MS Brilliance of the Seas, Klaksvik (Faroe Islands), Baltic Sea

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Tourists Rescued from Iceberg in East Iceland

Four tourists were rescued from an iceberg in Fjallsárlón glacial lagoon, East Iceland, yesterday afternoon. Fjallsárlón is just west of the popular Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon.The nearby Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon. Photo: Páll Stefánsson/Iceland Rev ... [Published Iceland Review Online - May 20 2013]

Entities: Iceland, Lagoon

Quotes

The meals were launched on a plane to Cyprus and James, who was on board, said: "My in-flight dishes reflect the passion I have for the food I create for my own restaurants, and feedback tells me they’re going down a treat, whether people are going off on holiday or returning home."

Low rates of the Caribbean, weird Foreign Office work and new Thomson app [Published Mirror.co.uk - 48 mins ago]

"The resettlement projects will have seven new villages for the Penan people in Murum" he said adding that right now the state government has continuously engaged with the Murum community to solve the few remaining issues

Hydropower Projects Will Enhance Standard Of Living In Sarawak, Says SEB CEO [Published Bernama - 2 hours ago]

"There may be people out there who consider hacking to be harmless, but hacking is not harmless. Computers now form a central role in our lives, containing personal details, financial details, confidential matters of companies and government departments and many business organisations."

British computer hackers behind bars - from the archive, 22 May 1993 [Published Guardian.co.uk - 2 hours ago]

"There, they viewed the trail of destruction the flood waters left."

Leatherhead students from St John's School visit Iceland [Published This is Surrey - 5 hours ago]

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Spotify Charts launch globally, showcase 50 mos... [Published Engadget - 6 hours ago] Taking a page out of Billboard's playbook, Spotify is using its listener data to determine the most popular music in a particular country. Available on the website or as embeddable widgets, the weekly updated charts will reveal which tracks are most listened ...
Bradley Manning trial to be closed for some tes... [Published Raw Story - 9 hours ago] Topics: Bradley Manning ♦ WikileaksLike Raw Story on FacebookSome testimony in the espionage trial of a US soldier who passed secret files to WikiLeaks will be held behind closed doors to safeguard classified information, a US judge ruled Tuesday.Evidence ...
Government Accepts Bradley Manning’s Plea to Le... [Published Firedoglake - 12 hours ago] The government had previously indicated it would present all evidence related to all charges, regardless of the fact that Pfc. Bradley Manning pled guilty to some of the offenses he faced. But, in military court today, a military prosecutor informed ...
Regulating banks the Austrian way [Published The Cobden Centre - 19 hours ago] Most people — from young to old and from all ends of the political spectrum — are united by a common bond. The idea that banks are deserving of taxpayer support is viewed as morally repugnant to them. Business owners see bank bailouts as an unfair advantage ...
Iceland’s post-Crisis economy: A myth or a mira... [Published naked capitalism - 22 hours ago] Jon Danielsson, Director of the ESRC funded Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics. When the Global Crisis struck in September 2008, all eyes were on the US (Eichengreen and Baldwin 2008). Iceland, however, was the first country to really ...

Audio/Video

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Iceland overcomes economic challenges [Published CNN.com - Video - 13 hours ago]
Iceland app prevents accidental incest [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 07 2013]
Iceland opposition wins on anti-austerity plank [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 28 2013]
Iceland bank heads appear in court [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Apr 24 2013]
Cyprus bailout lessons learned [Published CNN.com - Video - Mar 27 2013]

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